Evolutionary genetics of Carpodacus mexicanus, a recently colonized host of a bacterial pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum

Genetica

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-225

  Hess, Christopher M ^a,b   Wang, Zhenshan ^c   Edwards, Scott V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

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

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive loci; Diachronic evolution; House finch; Mhc; Population bottleneck

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FINCH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; PASSERI;

EID: 33846112483     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-006-9016-6     Document Type: Article

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