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Divergent allele advantage at MHC-DRB through direct and maternal genotypic effects and its consequences for allele pool composition and mating.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jul 2013
Lenz Tobias L, Mueller Birte, Trillmich Fritz, Wolf Jochen B W
Abstract excerpt
It is still debated whether main individual fitness differences in natural populations can be attributed to genome-wide effects or to particular loci of outstanding functional importance such as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). In a long-term monitoring project on Galápagos sea lions (...
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