Monodelphis domestica resources
Publications
Reconstructing an ancestral mammalian immune supercomplex from a marsupial MHC
Katherine Belov
1 Centre for Advanced Technologies in Animal Genetics and Reproduction, Faculty of
Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, 425 Werombi Rd Camden, NSW 2570,
Australia
2
ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Research School of Biological Sciences, The
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
3
Division of Bioinformatics,
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
4 Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87110 USA
5 Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, P.O. Box
760549, San Antonio, TX 78245-0549 USA
6 National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
7 Department of Computational Biology, and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute,
School of Medicine and Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public
Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
8 Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4458, USA
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040046
Sequence data
Resources
Full Resolution Figures
Physical map of Opossum MHC (Figure 1 from the paper in pdf format).
In silico identification of opossum cytokine genes suggests the complexity of the marsupial immune system rivals that of eutherian mammals
Emily SW Wong1#, Lauren J Young2#, Anthony T Papenfuss3, Katherine Belov1#*
1 Faculty of Veterinary Science,
University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2 School of Chemical and Biomedical Sciences,
Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
3 Division of Bioinformatics,
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
# Contributed equally.
* Corresponding author.
Immunome Research 2006, 2:4 (doi:10.1186/1745-7580-2-4)
Sequence data
Characterization of the opossum immune genome provides insights into the evolution of the mammalian immune system
Katherine Belov1*, Claire E. Sanderson1, Janine E. Deakin2, Emily S.W. Wong1, Daniel Assange3, Kaighin A. McColl3, Alex Gout3,4, Bernard de Bono5, Terence P. Speed3, John Trowsdale5, Anthony T. Papenfuss3
1 Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2 ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Research School of Biological Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
3 Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
Parkville, Australia
4 Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
5 Immunology Division, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Genome Research, 2007 vol. 17 pp. 982-91
Sequence data
Alpha defensin gene prediction: nucleotide and peptide
Beta defensin gene predictions: nucleotide and peptide
Cathelicidins gene predictions: nucleotide and peptide
SIGLEC gene predictions and putative Ig-domain containing ORFs: peptide
NKC gene predictions and putative Ig-domain containing ORFs: nucleotide and peptide
LRC Ig domains: nucleotide, peptide and chained (peptide)