Selection, diversity and evolutionary patterns of the MHC class II DAB in free-ranging Neotropical marsupials

BMC Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Meyer Lucht, Yvonne ^a,b   Otten, Celine ^a,b   Püttker, Thomas ^a,b   Sommer, Simone ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

AVES; EUTHERIA; GRACILINANUS MICROTARSUS; MARMOSA; MARMOSOPS INCANUS; METATHERIA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, MHC CLASS II; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 47349119419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-9-39     Document Type: Article

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