The evolution of the natural killer complex; a comparison between mammals using new high-quality genome assemblies and targeted annotation

• Autor(a) principal: Schwartz, John C.
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Gibson, Mark S., Heimeier, Dorothea, Koren, Sergey, Phillippy, Adam M., Bickhart, Derek M., Smith, Timothy P.L., Medrano, Juan F., Hammond, John A.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/152256
• topic: C-type lectin; KLRA; KLRC; Leukocyte receptor complex; Natural killer cells; Natural killer complex; Immunology; Genetics; SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Funding: We thank William Thompson for the excellent technical support. We also thank Prof. Elizabeth Glass (The Roslin Institute, UK) for providing the Sahiwal and Nelore DNA samples, Prof. Tomohiro Kono (Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan) for providing the Kuchinoshima-Ushi DNA, and Prof. Stephen Hall (University of Lincoln, UK) for the useful comments and for providing peripheral blood from the culled Chillingham cattle. JCS and JAH were supported by the United Kingdom Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Institute Strategic Program on Livestock Viral Diseases awarded to The Pirbright Institute. MSG was supported by BBSRC grant BB/J006211/1, BDissecting the functional impact of natural killer cell receptor variation in cattle.^ SK and AMP were supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. Sequencing of Dominette was supported by the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, USDA/NRSP8 Cattle Coordinator Funds, and University of California Davis. DMB was supported in part by appropriated project 1265-31000-096-00, BImproving Genetic Predictions in Dairy Animals Using Phenotypic and Genomic Information,^ of the USDA-ARS. DMB and TPLS were also supported by the Agricultural Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grant number 2015-67015- 22970 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Animal Health Program. Mention of trade names or commercial products in this article is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the US Department of Agriculture.