Transposons in the MHC: The Yin and Yang of the vertebrate immune system

Heredity

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 190-191

  Van Oosterhout, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOTE; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69249206817     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.46     Document Type: Note

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