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Genetic diversification of chemokine CXCL16 and its receptor CXCR6 in primates.
Developmental and comparative immunology - 1 Aug 2018
Xu Feifei, He Dan, Liu Jiabin, Ni Qingyong, Lyu Yongqing, Xiong Shiqiu, Li Yan
Abstract excerpt
Chemokine CXCL16 and its receptor CXCR6 are associated with a series of physiological and pathological processes in cooperative and stand-alone fashions. To shed insight into their versatile nature, we studied genetic variations of CXCL16 and CXCR6 in primates. Evolutionary analyses revealed that these genes underwent a similar evolutionary fate. Both genes experienced adaptive diversification with the...
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