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Allelic diversity and selection at the MHC class I and class II in a bottlenecked bird of prey, the White-tailed Eagle

BACKGROUND: Genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) are essential for adaptive immune response in vertebrates, as they encode receptors that recognize peptides derived from the processing of intracellular (MHC class I) and extracellular (MHC class II) pathogens. High MHC diversity in nat...

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Autores principales: Minias, Piotr, Pikus, Ewa, Anderwald, Dariusz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6321662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30611206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1338-3