Pathogen richness and abundance predict patterns of adaptive major histocompatibility complex variation in insular amphibians.

Abstract excerpt

The identification of the factors responsible for genetic variation and differentiation at adaptive loci can provide important insights into the evolutionary process and is crucial for the effective management of threatened species. We studied the impact of environmental viral richness and abundance on functional diversity and differentiation of the MHC class Ia locus in populations of the black-spotted pond frog...

Topics

Join the communities discussing this publication.

• Adaptation, Biological
• Genetics, Population
• Islands
• Major Histocompatibility Complex
• Microsatellite Repeats