Development of a Bioinformatics Framework for the Detection of Gene Conversion and the Analysis of Combinatorial Diversity in Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains in Four Cattle Breeds

• Stefanie Walther ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Walther, Manfred Tietze

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Animal Hygiene, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Georg-August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

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• Manfred Tietze ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Walther, Manfred Tietze

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany

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• Claus-Peter Czerny,

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Animal Hygiene, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Georg-August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

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• Sven König,

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany

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• Ulrike S. Diesterbeck

  * E-mail: ulrike.diesterbeck@nih.gov

  Current address: Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Animal Hygiene, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Georg-August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

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