Characterization of MHC class II B polymorphism in bottlenecked New Zealand saddlebacks reveals low levels of genetic diversity

Immunogenetics

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 619-633

  Sutton, Jolene T ^a,b   Robertson, Bruce C ^a,b   Grueber, Catherine E ^a,b   Stanton, Jo Ann L ^a   Jamieson, Ian G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Class Aves; Ion Torrent; Order Passeriformes; Philesturnus; Population decline; Songbird

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BALANCING SELECTION; CODON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXON; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTRON; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILESTURNUS CARUNCULATUS; PHILESTURNUS RUFUSATER; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SONGBIRD;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXONS; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSEUDOGENES; SELECTION, GENETIC;

AVES; CREADION CARUNCULATUS; PASSERI; PASSERIDA; PASSERIFORMES; PHILESTURNUS; PHILESTURNUS RUFUSATER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84880510322     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-013-0708-7     Document Type: Article

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