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Homozygosity at a class II MHC locus depresses female reproductive ability in European brown hares.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2010
Smith Steve, Mang Thomas, De Bellocq Joelle Goüy, Schaschl Helmut, Zeitlhofer Claudia, Hackländer Klaus, Suchentrunk Franz
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The link between adaptive genetic variation, individual fitness and wildlife population dynamics is fundamental to the study of ecology and evolutionary biology. In this study, a Bayesian modelling approach was employed to examine whether individual variability at two major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II loci (DQA and DRB) and eight neutral microsatellite loci explained variation in female reproductive...
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