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Beyond MHC: signals of elevated selection pressure on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) immune-relevant loci.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2010
Tonteri A, Vasemägi A, Lumme J, Primmer C R
Abstract excerpt
Using Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) as a model system, we investigated whether 18 microsatellites tightly linked to immune-relevant genes have experienced different selection pressures than 76 loci with no obvious association with immune function. Immune-relevant loci were identified as outliers by two outlier tests significantly more often than nonimmune linked loci (22% vs. 1.6%). In addition, the allele...
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