Major histocompatibility complex variation in red wolves: Evidence for common ancestry with coyotes and balancing selection

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1905-1913

  Hedrick, P W ^a   Lee, R N ^a   Garrigan, D ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive variation; Heterozygosity; Linkage disequilibrium; Phylogenetic tree; Substitution rate

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARNIVORA; EVOLUTION; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HETEROZYGOTE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLVES;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS LATRANS; CANIS LUPUS; CANIS RUFUS;

EID: 0036792642     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01579.x     Document Type: Article

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