Major histocompatibility complex variation and age-specific endoparasite load in subadult European rabbits

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4155-4167

  Oppelt, Claus ^a,b   Starkloff, Anett ^a   Rausch, Philipp ^a   Von Holst, Dietrich ^a   Rödel, Heiko G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

disease; immunogenetics; MHC; Oryctolagus cuniculus; overdominance; parasite burden

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

AGE; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COCCIDIA; DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; IMMUNOGENETICS; LIVER; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVERDOMINANCE; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOLOGY; RABBIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DISEASE; IMMUNOGENETICS; MHC; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVERDOMINANCE; PARASITE BURDEN;

AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COCCIDIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODA; PARASITE LOAD; RABBITS;

COCCIDIA; NEMATODA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957219985     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04766.x     Document Type: Article

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