Immunome database for marsupials and monotremes

BMC Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wong, Emily S W ^a   Papenfuss, Anthony T ^b   Belov, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHELICIDIN; CYTOKINE; DEFENSIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SWISS-PROT; WEB BROWSER; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MONOTREMATA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80051785507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-12-48     Document Type: Article

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