MHC diversity in two Acrocephalus species: The outbred Great reed warbler and the inbred Seychelles warbler

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3523-3529

  Richardson, David S ^a   Westerdahl, Helena ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Genetic variation; MHC; Passerines; Population bottleneck; Transspecies evolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEYCHELLES; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS; AVES; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 0344668676     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.02005.x     Document Type: Article

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