Characterization of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) transcriptome: A resource for molecular ecology and immunogenetics

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 636-646

  Ekblom, Robert ^a,b   Wennekes, Paul ^a   Horsburgh, Gavin J ^b   Burke, Terry ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird; MHC; Microsatellite; RNA Seq; SNP; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

AVIAN PROTEIN; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPARROW;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; ECOLOGY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; IMMUNOGENETICS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPARROWS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84898540019     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12213     Document Type: Article

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