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MHC class I genes of birds of prey: isolation, polymorphism and diversifying selection

2009-10-01

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The threat of emerging infectious diseases encourages the investigation of functional loci related to host resilience, such as those belonging to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Through careful primer design targeting to conserved regions of MHC class I sequences in birds, we successfully amplified a genomic fragment spanning exons 2-4 in three birds of prey. The identification of a highly conserved re...

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Literature Corpus work: 7e507788-53a2-5894-b63d-bd152a67afb1
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9653-7

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