Heterozygote advantage at MHC DRB may influence response to infectious disease epizootics

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1419-1432

  Osborne, Amy J ^a,b   Pearson, John ^b   Negro, Sandra S ^c   Louise Chilvers, B ^d   Kennedy, Martin A ^b   Gemmell, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

conservation genetics; disease biology; ecological genetics; mammals; natural selection and contemporary evolution; population genetics empirical

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; PHOCARCTOS HOOKERI;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEW ZEALAND; OTARIIDAE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EPIDEMICS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW ZEALAND; SEA LIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84925603619     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13128     Document Type: Article

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