Genetic diversity within and between natural populations of Rattus norvegicus.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110522

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Genetic diversity within and between natural populations of Rattus norvegicus.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Cramer D V, Chakravarti A, Arenas O, Humprieres J, Mowery P A

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The levels of gene diversity for 17 polymorphic loci in natural populations of wild rats were examined for three separate locations in North and South America. The level of gene diversity in the total sample for the RT1.A locus, the dominant class I histocompatibility locus in the major histocomp...

Topics

Animals
Animals, Wild
Gene Frequency
Genes, MHC Class I
Genetic Variation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Rats

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