Development of the early B cell populati
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Rainer Mußmann; Michèle Courtet; Louis Du Pasquier
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Like mammals, the amphibian Xenopus uses combinatorial joining of the immunoglobulin V, D and J elements and multiple rearrangements to generate its B cell repertoire. Xenopus larvae hatch 2 days after fertilization and individuals are under pressure to develop an immune repertoire when the number o