Evidence of the adaptive evolution of immune genes in chicken

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Downing, Tim ^a,b   Cormican, Paul ^a   O'Farrelly, Cliona ^a   Bradley, Daniel G ^a   Lloyd, Andrew T ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77049100333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-254     Document Type: Article

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