Seeing selection in S allele sequences.

doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00015-7

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Seeing selection in S allele sequences.

Current biology : CB - 1 Jan 1997

Charlesworth D, Guttman D S

Abstract excerpt

New data on allelic sequence diversity in natural populations provide evidence for natural selection acting on the self-incompatibility loci of two plant species; there are interesting parallels with, and differences from, other polymorphic systems such as mammalian MHC loci.

Topics

Alleles
Genes, Plant
Plants
Polymorphism, Genetic
Reproduction
Selection, Genetic

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