Evolutionary redefinition of immunoglobulin light chain isotypes in tetrapods using molecular markers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 16647-16652

  Das, Sabyasachi ^a   Nikolaidis, Nikolas ^a   Klein, Jan ^a,b   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistic molecular markers; Genomic organization; Immunoglobulin , , and chain genes; Recombination signal sequence

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MOLECULAR MARKER; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CLADISTICS; COW; DOG; FROG; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HORSE; HUMAN; LIZARD; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPTILE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOMICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS, SURROGATE; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; VERTEBRATES;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 55949131614     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808800105     Document Type: Article

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