Giant panda genomic data provide insight into the birth-and-death process of mammalian major histocompatibility complex class II genes.

To gain an understanding of the genomic structure and evolutionary history of the giant panda major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, we determined a 636,503-bp nucleotide sequence spanning the MHC class II region. Analysis revealed that the MHC class II region from this rare species contained...

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Main Authors: Qiu-Hong Wan, Chang-Jun Zeng, Xiao-Wei Ni, Hui-Juan Pan, Sheng-Guo Fang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2613555?pdf=render