The candidate histocompatibility locus of a Basal chordate encodes two highly polymorphic proteins.

The basal chordate Botryllus schlosseri undergoes a natural transplantation reaction governed by a single, highly polymorphic locus called the fuhc. Our initial characterization of this locus suggested it encoded a single gene alternatively spliced into two transcripts: a 555 amino acid-secreted for...

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Main Authors: Marie L Nydam, Nikolai Netuschil, Erin Sanders, Adam Langenbacher, Daniel D Lewis, Daryl A Taketa, Arumugapradeep Marimuthu, Andrew Y Gracey, Anthony W De Tomaso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3691228?pdf=render