Genetic diversity of the class II major histocompatibility DRA locus in European, Asiatic and African domestic donkeys

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1136-1141

  Vranova, Marie ^a   Alloggio, Ingrid ^b   Qablan, Moneeb ^a   Vyskocil, Mirko ^a   Baumeisterova, Aneta ^a   Sloboda, Michal ^a   Putnova, Lenka ^c   Vrtkova, Irena ^c   Modry, David ^a   Horin, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Babesia caballi; Domestic donkey; Genetic diversity; Major histocompatibility class II DRA gene; Theileria equi

Indexed keywords

DNA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ARTICLE; BABESIA CABALLI; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONKEY; DRA GENE; EQUINE PIROPLASMOSIS; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; ITALY; JORDAN; KENYA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THEILERIA; THEILERIA EQUI; THEILERIOSIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; BABESIOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EQUIDAE; EUROPE; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

BABESIA CABALLI; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; THEILERIA EQUI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79956324307     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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