Related projects will focus on identifying other genes of the duck immune system using a microarraying approach. No ducks will be harmed. Publications Shum BP, Rajalingam R, Magor KE, Azumi K, Carr WH, Dixon B, Stet RJ, Adkison MA, Hedrick RP, Parham P. 1999. I gene conserved in salmonids. Identification and expression of the genes encoding IgA and IgM heavy chains.
Ancestral immunity comes of age.
One gene encodes the heavy chains for three different forms of IgY in the duck.