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SUBMITTER: Lee JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4282251 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Jang-Wook JW Yang Hyun H Noh Jae Koo JK Kim Hyun Chul HC Park Choul-Ji CJ Park Jong-Won JW Hwang In Joon IJ Kim Sung Yeon SY Lee Jeong-Ho JH
Development & reproduction 20140601 2
Fish larvae are immediately exposed to microbes from hatching to maturation of their lymphoid organs, therefore effective innate mechanisms is very important for survival. However, the knowledge of the development of immune system in fish is limited and in demand now. In vertebrates, recombination-activating gene 1 (RAG-1) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) have been considered as very useful markers of the physiological maturity of the immune system. In this study, the expression of the both genes was ...[more]