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Genome diversification mechanism of rodent and Lagomorpha chemokine genes.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2013
Shibata Kanako, Nomiyama Hisayuki, Yoshie Osamu, Tanase Sumio
Abstract excerpt
Chemokines are a large family of small cytokines that are involved in host defence and body homeostasis through recruitment of cells expressing their receptors. Their genes are known to undergo rapid evolution. Therefore, the number and content of chemokine genes can be quite diverse among the different species, making the orthologous relationships often ambiguous even between closely related species. Given that...
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