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Is the decline of desert bighorn sheep from infectious disease the result of low MHC variation?
Heredity - 1 Apr 2001
Gutierrez-Espeleta G A, Hedrick P W, Kalinowski S T, Garrigan D, Boyce W M
Abstract excerpt
Bighorn sheep populations have greatly declined in numbers and distribution since European settlement, primarily because of high susceptibility to infectious diseases transmitted to them from domestic livestock. It has been suggested that low variation at major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ge...
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