Natural selection coupled with intragenic recombination shapes diversity patterns in the major histocompatibility complex class II genes of the giant panda

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 314 B, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 208-223

  Chen, Yi Yan ^a,b   Zhang, Ying Ying ^a,b   Zhang, He Min ^c   Ge, Yun Fa ^a,b   Wan, Qiu Hong ^a,b   Fang, Sheng Guo ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URSIDAE;

AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77950882312     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21327     Document Type: Article

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