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Pathometagenomics reveals susceptibility to intestinal infection by Morganella to be mediated by the blood group-related B4galnt2 gene in wild mice.
Gut microbes - 1 Jan 2000
Vallier Marie, Suwandi Abdulhadi, Ehrhardt Katrin, Belheouane Meriem, Berry David, Čepić Aleksa, Galeev Alibek, Johnsen Jill M, Grassl Guntram A, Baines John F
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Infectious disease is widely considered to be a major driver of evolution. A preponderance of signatures of balancing selection at blood group-related genes is thought to be driven by inherent trade-offs in susceptibility to disease. B4galnt2 is subject to long-term balancing selection in house mice, where two divergent allele classes direct alternative tissue-specific expression of a glycosyltransferase in the...
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