Evolution of MHC class I genes in the European badger (Meles meles)

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1644-1662

  Sin, Yung Wa ^a,b   Dugdale, Hannah L ^b,c   Newman, Chris ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a   Burke, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Birth and death evolution; Concerted evolution; Major histocompatibility complex; Orthology; Trans species polymorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864577968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.285     Document Type: Article

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