Evolutionary genetics of MHC class II beta genes in the brown hare, Lepus europaeus

Immunogenetics

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 743-751

  Smith, Steve ^a   De Bellocq, Joëlle Goüy ^a,b   Suchentrunk, Franz ^a   Schaschl, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DPB; DQB; DRB; Lepus Europaeus; MHC; Selection

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DPB ANTIGEN; HLA DQA ANTIGEN; HLA DQB ANTIGEN; HLA DRB ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HARE; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

LEPORIDAE; LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BELGIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC VARIATION; HARES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84863759769     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-011-0539-3     Document Type: Article

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