Putative causes and consequences of MHC variation within and between locally adapted stickleback demes

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 486-502

  McCairns, R J Scott ^a,c   Bourget, Sébastien ^b   Bernatchez, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

assortative mating; balancing selection; Gasterosteus aculeatus; mate choice; parasites

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SALINITY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; VERMES;

EID: 78751672582     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04950.x     Document Type: Article

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