Towards the reconstruction of the bilaterian ancestral pre-MHC region

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 587-591

  Danchin, Etienne G J ^a   Pontarotti, Pierre ^a  

^a EA 3781 Evolution   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORDATA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

BILATERIA; CHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 7444240757     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.09.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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