Identification of novel major histocompatibility complex class I sequences in a marsupial, the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Immunogenetics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 609-619

  Holland, Olivia J ^a,c   Cowan, Phil E ^a,b   Gleeson, Dianne M ^a   Chamley, Larry W ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brushtail possum; Major histocompatibility complex; Marsupial; MHC; Pseudogene; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRICHOSURUS;

DIDELPHIMORPHIA; EUTHERIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51249118720     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-008-0316-0     Document Type: Article

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