The marsupial major histocompatibility complex

Marsupial Genetics and Genomics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 339-356

  Cheng, Yuanyuan ^a   Siddle, Hannah V ^a   Belov, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Immunogenetics; Marsupials; MHC; Wildlife health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864795746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9023-2_16     Document Type: Chapter

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