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RSCA genotyping of MHC for high-throughput evolutionary studies in the model organism three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus.
BMC evolutionary biology - 16 Mar 2009
Lenz Tobias L, Eizaguirre Christophe, Becker Sven, Reusch Thorsten B H
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BACKGROUND: In all jawed vertebrates, highly polymorphic genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) encode antigen presenting molecules that play a key role in the adaptive immune response. Their polymorphism is composed of multiple copies of recently duplicated genes, each possessing ma...
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