Duplication and population dynamics shape historic patterns of selection and genetic variation at the major histocompatibility complex in rodents

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1552-1568

  Winternitz, Jamie C ^a   Wares, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Gene duplication; Major histocompatibility complex; Microtus montanus; Population dynamics; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882800135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.567     Document Type: Article

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