Polymorphisms of β-defensin genes in Valle del Belice dairy sheep

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 5405-5412

  Monteleone, Giuseppina ^a   Calascibetta, Davide ^a   Scaturro, Mariangela ^a   Galluzzo, Paola ^a   Palmeri, Marisa ^a   Riggio, Valentina ^a   Portolano, Baldassare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Defensin; Sheep; SNPs; Valle del Belice

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN 1; BETA DEFENSIN 2; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BETA DEFENSIN 1 GENE; BETA DEFENSIN 2 GENE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRYING; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA STABILITY; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DAIRYING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84855248306     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-011-0694-5     Document Type: Article

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