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The Evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Birds

2002-01-01

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The genetic region that scientists today call the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) was discovered in the 1930s by Peter Gorer in his pioneering studies of antigenic responses to transplanted sera by inbred mouse strains (Gorer 1936). The MHC was genetically defined more precisely by George Snell (1948), who first used the term. Contrary to what many believe, the discovery of cellular antigens in chickens (Ga...

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DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0423:teotmh]2.0.co;2

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