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Contrasting evolution of diversity at two disease-associated chicken genes.
Immunogenetics - 1 Apr 2009
Downing Tim, Lynn David J, Connell Sarah, Lloyd Andrew T, Bhuiyan A K Fazlul Haque, Silva Pradeepa, Naqvi Arifa N, Sanfo Rahamame, Sow Racine-Samba, Podisi Baitsi, O'Farrelly Cliona, Hanotte Olivier, Bradley Daniel G
Abstract excerpt
There have been significant evolutionary pressures on the chicken during both its speciation and its subsequent domestication by man. Infectious diseases are expected to have exerted strong selective pressures during these processes. Consequently, it is likely that genes associated with disease susceptibility or resistance have been subject to some form of selection. Two genes involved in the immune response...
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