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Transcriptomic analysis supports similar functional roles for the two thymuses of the tammar wallaby.
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BACKGROUND: The thymus plays a critical role in the development and maturation of T-cells. Humans have a single thoracic thymus and presence of a second thymus is considered an anomaly. However, many vertebrates have multiple thymuses. The tammar wallaby has two thymuses: a thoracic thymus (typically found in all mammals) and a dominant cervical thymus. Researchers have known about the presence of the two wallaby thymuses since the 1800s, but no genome-wide research has been carried out into ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Medical Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Genomics Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 420
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2164
- ISSN:
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1471-2164
- Source identifiers:
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239595
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- English
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- pubs:239595
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Wong et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © 2011 Wong et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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