Comparative Genomics and Evolution of Immunoglobulin-Encoding Loci in Tetrapods

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 111, Issue , 2011, Pages 143-178

  Das, Sabyasachi ^a   Hirano, Masayuki ^a   McCallister, Chelsea ^b   Tako, Rea ^b   Nikolaidis, Nikolas ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody diversity; Cladistic markers; Evolutionary genomics; Genomic organization; Immunoglobulins; MicroRNA; Tetrapods

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN O; IMMUNOGLOBULIN X; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY STRUCTURE; ARTIODACTYLA; BOOK; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOGENE; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 80053454877     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: 15578445     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385991-4.00004-0     Document Type: Chapter

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