Inter- and intralocus recombination drive MHC class IIB gene diversification in a teleost, the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 531-541

  Reusch, Thorsten B H ^a   Langefors, Åsa ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diversifying selection; Gene conversion; Major histocompatibility complex; MHC class II; Recombination; Sequence diversity; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FISH; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MHC CLASS II; INTRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; MAMMALIA; OSTEICHTHYES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 26244452940     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0340-0     Document Type: Article

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