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Evidence for selection on a chordate histocompatibility locus.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2013
Nydam Marie L, Taylor Alyssa A, De Tomaso Anthony W
Abstract excerpt
Allorecognition is the ability of an organism to differentiate self or close relatives from unrelated individuals. The best known applications of allorecognition are the prevention of inbreeding in hermaphroditic species (e.g., the self-incompatibility [SI] systems in plants), the vertebrate immune response to foreign antigens mediated by MHC loci, and somatic fusion, where two genetically independent individuals...
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