The little brown bat, M. lucifugus, displays a highly diverse VH, DH and JH repertoire but little evidence of somatic hypermutation

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 421-430

  Bratsch, Sara ^a   Wertz, Nancy ^b   Chaloner, Kathryn ^c   Kunz, Thomas H ^d   Butler, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Heavy chain variable region; Phylogeny; Repertoire; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION RATE; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; VDJ EXON;

MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS;

EID: 79951950813     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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