Balancing selection and the maintenance of MHC supertype variation in a selfing vertebrate
Author(s) -
Sofía Consuegra,
Amy Ellison,
J. Allainguillaume,
Justin A. Pachebat,
K. M. Peat,
Patricia A. Wright
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.342
H-Index - 253
eISSN - 1471-2954
pISSN - 0962-8452
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2012.2854
Subject(s) - vertebrate , selfing , biology , balancing selection , variation (astronomy) , selection (genetic algorithm) , evolutionary biology , computer science , major histocompatibility complex , genetics , sociology , artificial intelligence , population , demography , gene , physics , antigen , astrophysics
Despite being probably one of the most studied topics in Evolutionary Biology, the mechanisms of maintenance of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) diversity in vertebrates remain also one of the most debated topics [[1][1]].Ellison et al. [[2][2]] studied MHC class I diversity of a selfing
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