Transcriptomic analysis supports similar functional roles for the two thymuses of the tammar wallaby

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wong, Emily S W ^a   Papenfuss, Anthony T ^b   Heger, Andreas ^c   Hsu, Arthur L ^b   Ponting, Chris P ^c   Miller, Robert D ^d   Fenelon, Jane C ^e   Renfree, Marilyn B ^e   Gibbs, Richard A ^f   Belov, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PYROSEQUENCING; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TAMMAR WALLABY; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; THORAX;

MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MACROPODIDAE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; THORAX; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 80051799959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-420     Document Type: Article

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