Major histocompatibility complex class i evolution in songbirds: Universal primers, rapid evolution and base compositional shifts in exon 3

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Alcaide, Miguel ^a,b   Liu, Mark ^a   Edwards, Scott V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Adaptive variation; Comparative methods; Diversifying selection; GC content; Immune response; Major histocompatibility complex; Pathogen mediated selection

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; PRIMER DNA;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; DIVERSIFYING SELECTION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA EXTRACTION; EVOLUTION; EXON SHUFFLING; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SONGBIRD;

EID: 84885109490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.86     Document Type: Article

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