Characterization of MHC class IIB for four endangered Australian freshwater fishes obtained from ecologically divergent populations

Fish and Shellfish Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 468-476

  Bracamonte, Seraina E ^a,b,g   Smith, Steve ^a,b   Hammer, Michael ^c,d   Pavey, Scott A ^e   Sunnucks, Paul ^f   Beheregaray, Luciano B ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological genomics; Macquarie perch; Major histocompatibility complex; Next generation sequencing; River blackfish; Southern pygmy perch; Yarra pygmy perch

Indexed keywords

GADOPSIS; GADOPSIS MARMORATUS; MACQUARIA AUSTRALASICA; NANNOPERCA AUSTRALIS; NANNOPERCA OBSCURA; PERCICHTHYIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

FRESH WATER; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PERCH; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESH WATER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERCHES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84938065237     PISSN: 10504648     EISSN: 10959947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2015.06.009     Document Type: Article

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