Balancing selection at a frog antimicrobial peptide locus: Fluctuating immune effector alleles?

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2669-2680

  Tennessen, Jacob A ^a   Blouin, Michael S ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Balancing selection; Fluctuating selection; Rana blairi; Rana palustris; Rana pipiens

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; FROG; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; IMMUNOGENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; GENE FREQUENCY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANURA; PANTHERA PARDUS; RANA BLAIRI; RANA PALUSTRIS; RANA PIPIENS;

EID: 56449085957     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn208     Document Type: Article

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