Hitchhiking and recombination in birds: Evidence from Mhc-linked and unlinked loci in Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Genetical Research

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 175-192

  Edwards, Scott V ^a,b   Dillon, Megan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; FIBRINOGEN; GENOMIC DNA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; NUCLEOTIDE; RHODOPSIN;

AGELAIUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DROSOPHILA; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COSMIDS; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SONGBIRDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; AVES; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 14044274918     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672304007189     Document Type: Article

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