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MHC diversity in two Acrocephalus species: the outbred Great reed warbler and the inbred Seychelles warbler.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2003
Richardson David S, Westerdahl Helena
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The Great reed warbler (GRW) and the Seychelles warbler (SW) are congeners with markedly different demographic histories. The GRW is a normal outbred bird species while the SW population remains isolated and inbred after undergoing a severe population bottleneck. We examined variation at Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I exon 3 using restriction fragment length polymorphism, denaturing gradient gel...
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