Evolutionary Genomics of Immunoglobulin-Encoding Loci in vertebrates

Current Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-102

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Cladistic markers; Comparative genomics; Genomic organization; Gnathostomes; Microrna

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y; MICRORNA;

AMPHIBIA; BIRD; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860277659     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: 18755488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920212799860652     Document Type: Review

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