Highly endangered african wild dogs (lycaon pictus) lack variation at the major histocompatibility complex

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 100, Issue , 2009, Pages S54-S65

  Marsden, Clare D ^a,h   Mable, Barbara K ^a   Woodroffe, Rosie ^c   Rasmussen, Gregory S A ^d,e   Cleaveland, Sarah ^a   McNutt, J Weldon ^f   Emmanuel, Masenga ^g   Thomas, Robert ^h   Kennedy, Lorna J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Natural History Museum   (Zimbabwe)

^f BOTSWANA PREDATOR CONSERVATION TRUST   (Botswana)

^g Tanzanian Wildlife Research Institute   (Tanzania)

^h ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive variation; DLA; Lycaon pictus; MHC; Population bottleneck

Indexed keywords

LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 78650964597     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp031     Document Type: Article

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