title: Emergence of the immunoglobulin family: conservation in protein sequence and plasticity in gene organization.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona, Tucson 85724, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Marchalonis
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Bernstein
authors.forename: S X
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Schluter
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D005803:Genes, Immunoglobulin; D007136:Immunoglobulins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D008285:Major Histocompatibility Complex / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D010802:Phylogeny; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012754:Sharks / Q000235:genetics; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D007136:Immunoglobulins; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell