Major histocompatibility complex variation and evolution at a single, expressed DQA locus in two genera of elephants

Immunogenetics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 85-100

  Archie, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Henry, Tammy ^a,c   Maldonado, Jesus E ^a   Moss, Cynthia J ^d   Poole, Joyce H ^d   Pearson, Virginia R ^e   Murray, Suzan ^a   Alberts, Susan C ^f   Fleischer, Robert C ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS   (Kenya)

^e Philadelphia Zoo   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African elephant; Asian elephant; Coding sequence; DQA; Major histocompatibility complex; Molecular evolution

Indexed keywords

HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTRON; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ELEPHANTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 76249115216     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-009-0413-8     Document Type: Article

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