New(t)s and views from hybridizing MHC genes: introgression rather than trans-species polymorphism may shape allelic repertoires.

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One of the key features of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes is the frequent occurrence of trans-species polymorphism, that is 'the passage of allelic lineages from ancestral to descendant species' (Klein et al. 2007). Selectively maintained ancestral polymorphism may, however, be hard to distinguish from introgression of MHC alleles between hybridizing species (Fig. 1). In this issue of Molecular...

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