Adaptive evolution of Toll-like receptor 5 in domesticated mammals

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have proposed that mammalian toll like receptors (TLRs) have evolved under diversifying selection due to their role in pathogen detection. To determine if this is the case, we examined the extent of adaptive evolution in the TLR5 gene in both individual species and defin...

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Autores principales: Smith, Sarah A, Jann, Oliver C, Haig, David, Russell, George C, Werling, Dirk, Glass, Elizabeth J, Emes, Richard D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22827462
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-122

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22827462
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-122

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