Lamprey immunity is far from primitive

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5746-5747

  Rast, Jonathan P ^a   Buckley, Katherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; IMMUNITY; LAMPREY; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; PETROMYZON; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN;

PETROMYZONTIDAE;

EID: 84876043102     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303541110     Document Type: Note

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