Evolution of a cluster of innate immune genes (β-defensins) along the ancestral lines of chicken and zebra finch
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Immunome Research
- Vol. 6 (1), 3
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-7580-6-3
Abstract
Avian β-defensins (AvBDs) represent a group of innate immune genes with broad antimicrobial activity. Within the chicken genome, previous work identified 14 AvBDs in a cluster on chromosome three. The release of a second bird genome, the zebra finch, allows us to study the comparative evolutionary history of these gene clusters between from two species that shared a common ancestor about 100 million years ago.This publication has 56 references indexed in Scilit:
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