Extensive MHC variability in cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi.

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Extensive MHC variability in cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi.

Nature - 22 Jul 1993

Klein D, Ono H, O'hUigin C, Vincek V, Goldschmidt T, Klein J

Abstract excerpt

Lake Malawi in East Africa harbours 500-1,000 endemic species of cichlid fishes, all presumably derived by adaptive radiation from a single founding population within the past two million years. The species of this 'flock' differ strikingly in their ecology and behaviour, moderately in their exte...

Topics

Africa, Southern
Alleles
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Base Sequence
Consensus Sequence
Exons
Genes, MHC Class II
Introns
Molecular Sequence Data
Perches
Polymorphism, Genetic
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

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