Evolution of a cluster of innate immune genes (-defensins) along the ancestral lines of chicken and zebra finch

Immunome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hellgren, Olof ^a,b   Ekblom, Robert ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AVIAN BETA DEFENSIN GENE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME 3; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SONGBIRD; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PASSERIFORMES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77950543567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17457580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-7580-6-3     Document Type: Article

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