… nucleolar organiser region (NOR), in which all ofthe chicken rRNA genes were located (18). …
based on the mammalian MHC, upon analysis of chicken MHC genes at the genomic level, …

… -classical class II genes of the chicken. As shown … genes do exist in the B region of the MHC
of the chicken. And, in order to assess genetic diversity of these key immune system genes, …

… , the organisation of this MHC was arranged differently than in mammals, with the class III
region on the outside and the TAP genes in between the two class I genes, an organisation …

… An example is the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that encodes the classical MHC
… , the chicken MHC is compact and simple, with single dominantly-expressed MHC molecules …

… TAP promoter such as the interferon-response element, X/X2, Y and S boxes, which are
also found in the promoter regions of chicken MHC class I and β2-microglobulin promoters. In …

… but organised with allele groups in the first field separated by a colon from closely related
variants in the second field, based on the system originally developed for human MHC genes …

… In other ways, the chicken MHC differs from the textbook … The chicken MHC has two class I
genes and two class II B genes, … If the chicken simply used all the genes, then a chicken MHC …

… This may mean that the organisation in chickens (and perhaps originally in the tetrapods)
was with the class I region in between the class I1 region and the class 111 region, rather than …

… We have proposed that a genomic inversion within the ancestral organisation swung the
class III region into the middle of the MHC and the class I gene(s) to the outside, but leaving …

… Genomic organisation of the chicken MHC B complex. The map covers the BF/BL region (…
-like gene in the chicken MHC. Nevertheless, we here have shown that several BG genes are …