Adaptive tolerance to a pathogenic fungus drives major histocompatibility complex evolution in natural amphibian populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1827, 2016, Pages

  Savage, Anna E ^a,b   Zamudio, Kelly R ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Amphibian; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Immunogenetics; Major histocompatibility complex

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; AMPHIBIAN; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; IMMUNITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PATHOGEN; SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARIZONA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORTALITY; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RANIDAE; VETERINARY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84961653065     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.3115     Document Type: Article

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