MHC genotypes associate with resistance to a frog-killing fungus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 16705-16710

  Savage, Anna E ^a   Zamudio, Kelly R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging infectious disease; Experimental infection; Major histocompatibility complex; Molecular evolution; Ranidae

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FROG; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNOGENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANIDAE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; RANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053627099     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106893108     Document Type: Article

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