Applicability of major histocompatibility complex DRB1 alleles as markers to detect vertebrate hybridization: A case study from Iberian ibex × domestic goat in southern Spain

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Alasaad, Samer ^a,b   Fickel, Joerns ^c   Rossi, Luca ^d   Sarasa, Mathieu ^e   Benítez Camacho, Buenaventura ^f   Granados, José E ^g   Soriguer, Ramón C ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e Grupo Biología de Las Especies Cinegéticas y Plagas RNM 118   (Spain)

^f Espacio Natural de Sierra Nevada ^*  (Spain)

^g Espacio Natural de Sierra Nevada   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capra hircus; Capra pyrenaica; Hybridization; MHC alleles; Wildlife conservation

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GOAT; HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; EXONS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GOATS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

EID: 84866494433     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-54-56     Document Type: Article

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