Is promiscuity associated with enhanced selection on MHC-DQα in mice (genus peromyscus)?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  MacManes, Matthew D ^a,b   Lacey, Eileen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX DQ ALPHA; MATING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYMPATRY; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CALIFORNIA; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEROMYSCUS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84861409548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037562     Document Type: Article

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