Physical mapping of innate immune genes, mucins and lysozymes, and other non-mucin proteins in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-125

  Edwards, M J ^a   Hinds, L A ^b   Deane, E M ^b   Deakin, J E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparative mapping; Lysozyme; Mucin; Tammar wallaby

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME; MUCIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOGENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPUS EUGENII; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MACROPODIDAE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MONODELPHIS; MUCINS; MURAMIDASE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 80054947455     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 14219794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330371     Document Type: Article

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