Natural Killer Cell Receptor Genes in the Family Equidae: Not only Ly49

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Futas, Jan ^a   Horin, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL KILLER CELL LECTIN LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY A;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FUSION GENE; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORSE; IMMUNE TYROSINE BASED INHIBITION MOTIF; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 3DL GENE; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR GENE; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE TRANSCRIPT FUSION GENE; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR P1 GENE; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR P2 GENE; LY49 GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUSION; GENOME; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY A; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, NATURAL KILLER CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; MAMMALIA; PERISSODACTYLA; RHINOCEROS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84878384151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064736     Document Type: Article

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