Immunogenetic Variation and Differential Pathogen Exposure in Free-Ranging Cheetahs across Namibian Farmlands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Castro Prieto, Aines ^a   Wachter, Bettina ^a   Melzheimer, Joerg ^a   Thalwitzer, Susanne ^a   Hofer, Heribert ^a   Sommer, Simone ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CHEETAH; CORONAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNOGENETICS; MALE; MHC CLASS 1 GENE; MHC CLASS 2 GENE; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARVOVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ACINONYX; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENES, MHC CLASS II; NAMIBIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACINONYX; VERMES;

EID: 84868687601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049129     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Meyers LA, Bull JJ, (2002) Fighting change with change: adaptive variation in an uncertain world. Trends Ecol Evol 17: 551-557.
2. Sommer S, (2005) The importance of immune gene variability (MHC) in evolutionary ecology and conservation. Front Zool 2: 16.
3. Hedrick PW, (2002) Pathogen resistance and genetic variation at MHC loci. Evolution 56: 1902-1908.
4. Piertney SB, Oliver MK, (2006) The evolutionary ecology of the major histocompatibility complex. Heredity 96: 7-21.
5. Klein J (1986) Natural history of the major histocompatibility complex. New York: Wiley.
6. Takahata N, Nei M, (1990) Allelic genealogy under overdominant and frequency-dependent selection and polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex loci. Genetics 124: 967-978.
7. Slade RW, McCallum HI, (1992) Overdominant vs. Frequency-Dependent Selection at MHC Loci. Genetics 132: 861-862.
8. Hedrick PW, Thomson G, Klitz W, (1987) Evolutionary genetics and HLA: another classic example. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 31: 311-331.
9. Hill AVS (1991) HLA associations with malaria in Africa: some implications for MHC evolution. In: Klein J, Klein D, editors. Molecular evolution of the major histocompatibility complex. Berlin: Springer. pp. 403-419.
10. Doherty PC, Zinkernagel RM, (1975) Biological role for major histocompatibility antigens. Lancet 1: 1406-1409.
11. Hughes AL, Nei M, (1988) Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection. Nature 335: 167-170.
12. Spurgin LG, Richardson DS, (2010) How pathogens drive genetic diversity: MHC, mechanisms and misunderstandings. Proc R Soc London Ser B Biol Sci 277: 979-988.
13. Garrigan D, Hedrick PW, (2003) Detecting adaptive molecular polymorphism, lessons from the MHC. Evolution 57: 1707-1722.
14. Hanssen L, Stander P (2004) Namibia Large Carnivore Atlas Report. Vol 1. Windhoek: Predator Conservation Trust, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Division of Speciality Support Services.
15. Marker-Kraus L, Kraus D, Barnett D, Hurlbut S (1996) Cheetah survival on Namibian farmlands. Windhoek: Cheetah Conservation Fund.
16. Marker-Kraus L, Kraus D, (1995) The Namibian free-ranging cheetah. Environ Conserv 21: 369-370.
17. Schneider HP (1994) Animal health and veterinary medicine in Namibia. Windhoek: AGRIVET.
18. Roelke-Parker ME, Munson L, Packer C, Kock R, Cleaveland S, et al. (1996) A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo). Nature 379: 441-445.
19. Munson L, Terio KA, Ryser-Degiorgis MP, Lane EP, Courchamp F (2010) Wild felid diseases: conservation implications and management strategies In: Macdonald, DW, Loveridge AJ, editors. Biology and Conservation of wild felids. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 237-259.
20. Munson L, Marker L, Dubovi E, Spencer JA, Evermann JF, et al. (2004) Serosurvey of viral infections in free-ranging Namibian cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). J Wildl Dis 40: 23-31.
21. Thalwitzer S, Wachter B, Robert N, Wibbelt G, Muller T, et al. (2010) Seroprevalences to viral pathogens in free-ranging and captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) on Namibian farmland. Clin Vaccine Immunol 17: 232-238.
22. Marker LL, Wilkerson AJP, Sarno RJ, Martenson J, Breitenmoser-Würsten C, et al. (2008) Molecular genetic insights on cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) ecology and conservation in Namibia. J Hered 99: 2-13.
23. Miller HC, Miller KA, Daugherty CH, (2008) Reduced MHC variation in a threatened tuatara species. Anim Cons 11: 206-214.
24. Castro-Prieto A, Wachter B, Sommer S, (2011) Cheetah paradigm revisited: MHC diversity in the world's largest free-ranging population. Mol Biol Evol 28: 1455-1468.
25. Yuhki N, O'Brien SJ, (1994) Exchanges of short polymorphic DNA segments predating speciation in feline major histocompatibility complex class-I genes. J Mol Evol 39: 22-33.
26. Drake GJC, Kennedy LJ, Auty HK, Ryvar R, Ollier WER, et al. (2004) The use of reference strand-mediated conformational analysis for the study of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) feline leucocyte antigen class II DRB polymorphisms. Mol Ecol 13: 221-229.
27. Bjorkman PJ, Parham P, (1990) Structure, function, and diversity of class-I major histocompatibility complex-molecules. Annu Rev Biochem 59: 253-288.
28. Brown JH, Jardetzky TS, Gorga JC, Stern LJ, Urban RG, et al. (1993) Three-Dimensional structure of the human class-II histocompatibility antigen HLA-DR1. Nature 364: 33-39.
29. Olmsted RAR, Langley ME, Roelke RM, Goeken D, Adger-Johnson JP, et al. (1992) Worldwide prevalence of lentivirus infection in wild feline species: epidemiologic and phylogenetic aspects. J Virol 66: 6008-6018.
30. van Vuuren ME, Stylianides SA, Kania SA, Zuckermann EE, Hardy WD, (2003) Evaluation of an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of feline lentivirus-reactive antibodies in wild felids, employing a puma lentivirus-derived synthetic peptide antigen. Onderstepoort J Vet Res 70: 1-6.
31. Kummrow MML, Meli M, Haessig E, Goenczi A, Poland NC, et al. (2005) Feline coronavirus serotypes 1 and 2: seroprevalence and association with disease in Switzerland. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 12: 1209-1215.
32. Radford ADS, Dawson R, Ryvar K, Coyne DR, Johnson MB, et al. (2003) High genetic diversity of the immunodominant region of the feline calicivirus capsid gene in endemically infected cat colonies. Virus Genes 27: 145-155.
33. Gamoh K, Senda M, Inoue Y, Itoh O, (2005) Efficacy of an inactivated feline panleucopenia virus vaccine against a canine parvovirus isolated from a domestic cat. Vet Rec 157: 285-287.
34. Horimoto TJA, Limcumpao X, Xuan M, Ono K, Maeda Y, et al. (1992) Heterogeneity of feline herpesvirus type 1 strains. Arch Virol 126: 283-292.
35. Masuda MH, Sato H, Kamata T, Katsuo A, Takenaka R, (2006) Characterization of monoclonal antibodies directed against the canine distemper virus nucleocapsid protein. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 29: 157-165.
36. Ruckerbauer GM, Girard A, Bannister GL, Boulanger P, (1971) Studies on bovine virus diarrhea: serum neutralization, complement-fixation and immunofluorescence. Can J Comp Med Vet Sci 35: 230-238.
37. Hedrick PW, (2001) Conservation genetics, where are we now? Trends Ecol Evol 16: 629-636.
38. Edwards S, Potts W (1996) Polymorphism of genes in the major histocompatibility complex, implications for conservation genetics of vertebrates. In: Smith T, Wayne R, editors. Molecular Genetic Approaches in Conservation. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 214-237.
39. Wachter B, Thalwitzer S, Hofer H, Lonzer J, Hildebrandt TB, et al. (2011) Reproductive history and absence of predators are important determinants of reproductive fitness: the cheetah controversy revisited. Conserv Lett 4: 47-54.
40. Kumar S, Tamura K, Nei M, (2004) MEGA3, Integrated software for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis and sequence alignment. Brief Bioinfor 5: 150-163.
41. Excoffier L, Laval LG, Schneider S, (2005) Arlequin version 3.0, an integrated software package for population genetics data analysis. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online 1: 47-50.
42. Nei M (1987) Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. New York: Columbia University Press.
43. Guo S, Thompson E, (1992) Performing the exact test of Hardy-Weinberg proportion fro multiple alleles. Biometrics 48: 361-372.
44. Wright S, (1965) The interpretation of population structure by F-statistics with special regard to systems of mating. Evolution 19: 395-420.
45. Raymond M, Rousset F, (1995) An exact test for population differentiation. Evolution 49: 1280-1283.
46. Ryman N, (2006) CHIFISH, a computer program testing for genetic heterogeneity at multiple loci using chi-square and Fisher's exact test. Mol Ecol Notes 6: 285-287.
47. Ryman N, Jorde PE, (2001) Statistical power when testing for genetic heterogeneity. Mol Ecol 10: 2361-2373.