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A locus-wide approach to assessing variation in the avian MHC: the B-locus of the wild turkey.
Heredity - 1 Jul 2011
Chaves L D, Faile G M, Hendrickson J A, Mock K E, Reed K M
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Studies of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) diversity in non-model vertebrates typically focus on structure and sequence variation in the antigen-presenting loci: the highly variable and polymorphic class I and class IIB genes. Although these studies provide estimates of the number of genes and alleles/locus, they often overlook variation in functionally related and co-inherited genes important in the...
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