Major histocompatibility complex variability in the clonal Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa: Is copy number less important than genotype?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1124-1136

  Lampert, K P ^a,b   Fischer, P ^a   Schartl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genotypic variability; Parasite host interaction; Poeciliidae; Polyploidy; Red queen

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; POLYPLOIDY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; POECILIA; POLYPLOIDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA FORMOSA; POECILIIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 61649088164     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04097.x     Document Type: Article

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