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The genetic basis of resistance and matching-allele interactions of a host-parasite system: The Daphnia magna-Pasteuria ramosa model.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2017
Bento Gilberto, Routtu Jarkko, Fields Peter D, Bourgeois Yann, Du Pasquier Louis, Ebert Dieter
Abstract excerpt
Negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) is an evolutionary mechanism suggested to govern host-parasite coevolution and the maintenance of genetic diversity at host resistance loci, such as the vertebrate MHC and R-genes in plants. Matching-allele interactions of hosts and parasites that prevent the emergence of host and parasite genotypes that are universally resistant and infective are a genetic mechanism...
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