Evolution of the opossum major histocompatibility complex: Evidence for diverse alternative splice patterns and low polymorphism among class i genes

Immunology

Volumn 128, Issue 1 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Baker, Michelle L ^a,b   Melman, Sandra D ^b   Huntley, James ^c   Miller, Robert D ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative immunology evolution; Major histocompatibility complex; Marsupial

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HOMODIMER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONODELPHIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 68249162079     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: 13652567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2008.02994.x     Document Type: Article

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