Homozygosity at a class II MHC locus depresses female reproductive ability in European brown hares

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4131-4143

  Smith, Steve ^a   Mang, Thomas ^a,b   De Bellocq, Joelle Goüy ^a,c   Schaschl, Helmut ^d   Zeitlhofer, Claudia ^e   HacklÄnder, Klaus ^e   Suchentrunk, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; DQA; DRB; Lepus europaeus; MHC variation; reproductive success; zero inflated Poisson regression model

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DQA; DRB; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HARE; HOMOZYGOTE; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; MHC VARIATION; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ZERO-INFLATED POISSON REGRESSION MODEL;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DQA; DRB; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; MHC VARIATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; ZERO-INFLATED POISSON REGRESSION MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; HARES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HOMOZYGOTE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCTION;

LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS;

EID: 77957221786     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04765.x     Document Type: Article

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