Social discrimination by quantitative assessment of immunogenetic similarity

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1746, 2012, Pages 4368-4374

  Villinger, Jandouwe ^a   Waldman, Bruce ^b,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Immunogenetics; Kin recognition; Major histocompatibility complex; MHC peptides; Recognition alleles; Sequence divergence

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMINO ACID; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; DIVERGENCE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KIN RECOGNITION; PEPTIDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SIGNAL; TOAD;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84866875402     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1279     Document Type: Article

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