Gene conversion rapidly generates major histocompatibility complex diversity in recently founded bird populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 5213-5225

  Spurgin, Lewis G ^a   Van Oosterhout, Cock ^a   Illera, Juan Carlos ^a,b,c   Bridgett, Stephen ^d   Gharbi, Karim ^d   Emerson, Brent C ^a,b   Richardson, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Berthelot's pipit; major histocompatibility complex; micro recombination; mutation; selection

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SONGBIRD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE CONVERSION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANTHUS BERTHELOTII; AVES;

EID: 82955249064     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05367.x     Document Type: Article

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