Signals of major histocompatibility complex overdominance in a wild salmonid population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1670, 2009, Pages 3133-3140

  Kekäläinen, Jukka ^a,b   Vallunen, J Albert ^c   Primmer, Craig R ^c   Rättyä, Jouni ^b   Taskinen, Jouni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Condition; Heterozygote advantage; Major histocompatibility complex; Overdominance; Parasite; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PARASITE INTENSITY; POLYMORPHISM; SALMONID; SELECTION; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONID; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 68849111940     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0727     Document Type: Article

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