Parasite-mediated selection of major histocompatibility complex variability in wild brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) from Inner Mongolia, China

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Min ^a   He, Hongxuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluctuating selection; Genetic diversity; Heterozygote advantage; Major histocompatibility complex; Parasite driven selection; Rare allele advantage

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; COEVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GRASSLAND; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; PARASITE; WILD POPULATION;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

LASIOPODOMYS BRANDTII; MURIDAE; NEMATODA; VERMES;

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONGOLIA; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; WILD ANIMAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARVICOLINAE; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MONGOLIA; NEMATODA; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RODENT DISEASES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84880032938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-149     Document Type: Article

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