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Twenty-year co-evolutionary arms race between meerkat MHC and Tuberculosis

2024-07-10

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Pathogen-mediated balancing selection shapes host ecology and evolution across the tree of life, fueling a co-evolutionary arms race based on frequency-dependent adaptations of hosts and counter-adaptations of pathogens. While rare immune genotypes are predicted to be more resistant to pathogens, evidence for this rare allele-advantage and negative frequency-dependent feedbacks has only...

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Literature Corpus work: 919f1bbb-7a35-5e8d-ad20-a06d82bc9b9d
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4685784/v1

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