MHC class II DQA gene variation across cohorts of brown hares (Lepus europaeus) from eastern Austria: Testing for different selection hypotheses

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-257

  Campos, José L ^a,b   Bellocq, Joëlle Goüy de ^c   Schaschl, Helmut ^a,d   Suchentrunk, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; DQA; Lepus europaeus; MHC; Stabilizing selection; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOPARASITE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAGOMORPH; SPACE USE; STABILIZATION; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRIA;

LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS;

EID: 79953141979     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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