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The Xenopus FcR family demonstrates continually high diversification of paired receptors in vertebrate evolution.
BMC evolutionary biology - 16 May 2008
Guselnikov Sergey V, Ramanayake Thaminda, Erilova Aleksandra Y, Mechetina Ludmila V, Najakshin Alexander M, Robert Jacques, Taranin Alexander V
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BACKGROUND: Recent studies have revealed an unexpected diversity of domain architecture among FcR-like receptors that presumably fulfill regulatory functions in the immune system. Different species of mammals, as well as chicken and catfish have been found to possess strikingly different sets of these receptors. To better understand the evolutionary history of paired receptors, we extended the study of FcR-like...
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