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Applicability of major histocompatibility complex DRB1 alleles as markers to detect vertebrate hybridization: a case study from Iberian ibex × domestic goat in southern Spain.
Acta veterinaria Scandinavica - 24 Sept 2012
Alasaad Samer, Fickel Joerns, Rossi Luca, Sarasa Mathieu, Benã-Tez-Camacho Buenaventura, Granados José E, Soriguer Ramón C
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BACKGROUND: Hybridization between closely related wild and domestic species is of great concern because it can alter the evolutionary integrity of the affected populations. The high allelic variability of Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) loci usually excludes them from being used in studies to detect hybridization events. However, if a) the parental species don't share alleles, and b) one of the parental...
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