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SUBMITTER: Pancer Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1166628 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050617 26
A previously uncharacterized type of variable lymphocyte receptors (VLR) was identified recently in the Sea lamprey. This jawless vertebrate generates an extensive VLR repertoire through differential insertion of neighboring diverse leucine-rich repeat (LRR) cassettes into an incomplete germ-line VLR gene. We report here VLR homologs from two additional lamprey species and the presence of two types of VLR genes in hagfish, the only other order of contemporary jawless vertebrates. As in the Sea l ...[more]