Characterization of the opossum immune genome provides insights into the evolution of the mammalian immune system

Genome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 982-991

  Belov, Katherine ^a   Sanderson, Claire E ^a   Deakin, Janine E ^b   Wong, Emily S W ^a   Assange, Daniel ^c   McColl, Kaighin A ^c   Gout, Alex ^c,d   De Bono, Bernard ^e   Barrow, Alexander D ^f   Speed, Terence P ^c   Trowsdale, John ^f   Papenfuss, Anthony T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHELICIDIN; CHEMOKINE; DEFENSIN; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; IMMUNOGENETICS; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CHEMOKINES; DEFENSINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; IMMUNITY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MAMMALS; MONODELPHIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 34248594184     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6121807     Document Type: Article

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