Duplication, balancing selection and trans-species evolution explain the high levels of polymorphism of the DQA MHC class II gene in voles (Arvicolinae)

Immunogenetics

Volumn 58, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 191-202

  Bryja, J ^a,b   Galan, M ^a   Charbonnel, N ^a   Cosson, J F ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allelic diversity; Arvicola; Clethrionomys; Microtus; Muridae

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DQA GENE; EXON; FRANCE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; VOLE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARVICOLA; ARVICOLINAE; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 33645453416     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-006-0085-6     Document Type: Article

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