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Major histocompatibility complex variation at three class II loci in the northern elephant seal.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2004
Weber Diana S, Stewart Brent S, Schienman John, Lehman Niles
Abstract excerpt
Northern elephant seals were hunted to near extinction in the 19th century, yet have recovered remarkably and now number around 175,000. We surveyed 110 seals for single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) and sequence variation at three major histocompatibility (MHC) class II loci (DQA, DQB and DRB) to evaluate the genetic consequences of the population bottleneck at these loci vs. other well-studied genes....
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