Episodic positive selection in the evolution of avian toll-like receptor innate immunity genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Grueber, Catherine E ^a,b   Wallis, Graham P ^b   Jamieson, Ian G ^a,b  

^a Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 5; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; CODON;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APTERYX MANTELLI; ARTICLE; BIRD; CODON; EPISODIC POSITIVE SELECTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; IMMUNOGENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORPHYRIO HOCHSTETTERI; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TLR GENE; TLR15 GENE; TLR1LA GENE; TLR1LB GENE; TLR21 GENE; TLR2A GENE; TLR2B GENE; TLR3 GENE; TLR4 GENE; TLR5 GENE; TLR7 GENE; ANIMAL; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; IMMUNITY, INNATE; SELECTION, GENETIC; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 84897049000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089632     Document Type: Article

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