Insights into the complex associations between MHC class II DRB polymorphism and multiple gastrointestinal parasite infestations in the striped mouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Froeschke, Götz ^a   Sommer, Simone ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; COINERTIA ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MHC CLASS II DRB GENE; MOUSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAMIBIA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOSIS; PLEIOTROPY; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; INTESTINE INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

NEMATODA; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO;

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MICE; NEMATODA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857566948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031820     Document Type: Article

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