1st Edition

Comparative Immunoglobulin Genetics

264 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations

by Apple Academic Press

264 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations

by Apple Academic Press

264 Pages

by Apple Academic Press

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Description

This contemporary book covers significant new knowledge that has emerged during the last two decades and, thus, provides novel antibody phylogenetic perspectives relevant to development of new antibody-based therapeutics and vaccines. It fills a much-needed niche in the area of immunoglobulin genetics across species from a comparative perspective. New insights and perspectives from immunoglobulin... Read more

Variable Lymphocyte Receptor-Based Adaptive Immunity in the Agnathan Sea Lamprey; Marion J. Parsons, Justin T. H. Chan, Heng Sun, and Götz R. A. Ehrhardt

Immunoglobulin Genes in Tetrapods; Yi Sun and Yaofeng Zhao

The Immunoglobulin Genes of Bats; J. E. Butler, Nancy Wertz, and Michelle L. Baker

Marsupial and Monotreme Immunoglobulin Genetics; Robert D. Miller and Victoria L. Hansen

Organization of the he Immunoglobulin Heavy- and Light-Chain Loci in the Rat; Peter M. Dammers, Jacobus Hendricks, Peter Terpstra, Nicolaas A. Bos, and Frans G. M. Kroese

Generation of the Antibody Repertoire in Rabbits: Role of Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissues; Kari M. Severson and Katherine L. Knight

The Immunoglobulin Genes of Domestic Swine; J. E. Butler and Nancy Wertz

Bovine Immunoglobulin Genetics: A Phylogenetic Perspective; Yfke Pasman and Azad K. Kaushik

Informatic Tools for Immunoglobulin Gene Sequence Analysis; Lena Hazanov, Miri Michaeli, Gitit Lavy-Shahaf, and Ramit Mehr

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