Julien Goebel, Marta Promerová, Francesco Bonadonna, Karen D. McCoy, Céline Serbielle, Maria Strandh, Glenn Yannic, Reto Burri, Luca Fumagalli. (2017). 100 million years of multigene family evolution: origin and evolution of the avian MHC class IIB (Vol. 18). Bachelor's thesis, , .
Abstract: Gene duplication has led to a most remarkable adaptation involved in vertebrates’ host-pathogen arms-race, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). However, MHC duplication history is as yet poorly understood in non-mammalian vertebrates, including birds.
Keywords: Birds Birth-death evolution Concerted evolution Gene conversion Gene duplication Major histocompatibility complex Recombination
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