Evolutionary history of an MHC gene in two leporid species: Characterisation of Mhc-DQA in the European brown hare and comparison with the European rabbit

Immunogenetics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-144

  Goüy De Bellocq, Joëlle ^a,b   Suchentrunk, Franz ^a   Baird, Stuart J E ^c   Schaschl, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Lepus europaeus vs. Oryctolagus cuniculus; Mhc DQA; Recombination; Selection; Trans species polymorphism

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BELGIUM; BINDING SITE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CLONING; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HARE; MACROPARASITE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RABBIT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOTYPE; HARES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RABBITS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

LEPORIDAE; LEPUS; LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 59849092488     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-008-0349-4     Document Type: Article

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