Cytonuclear disequilibria in wild populations of rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus L.) suggest unequal allele turnover rates at the b locus (IGKC1)

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 629-643

  Van Der Loo, Wessel ^a   Mougel, Florence ^c   Sánchez, María S ^d,i   Bouton, Christianne ^b   Castien, Enrico ^f   Fonseca, Amélia ^e   Ferrand, Nuno ^g   Soriguer, Ramón ^h   Monnerot, Monique ^c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^f Serv Conservacion de la Naturaleza   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^h DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

ⁱ University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cytonuclear disequilibria; Diversity enhancement selection; Histocompatibility antigens; Immunoglobulin; Molecular clock

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033000680     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050659     Document Type: Article

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