Analysis of immunoglobulin transcripts in the Ostrich Struthio camelus, a primitive avian species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Tian ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Wei, Zhiguo ^b   Wang, Ping ^a   Sun, Yi ^a   Hu, Xiaoxiang ^a   Ren, Liming ^a   Meng, Qingyong ^a   Zhang, Ran ^a   Guo, Ying ^a   Hammarstrom, Lennart ^c   Li, Ning ^a   Zhao, Yaofeng ^a,d  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IG LAMBDA LIGHT CHAIN GENE; IGA GENE; IGM GENE; IGY GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTRICH; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANSERIFORMES; AVES; GALLIFORMES; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; STRUTHIONIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; STRUTHIONIFORMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859024718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034346     Document Type: Article

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