Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans

Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans

Abstract Background While there is evidence of both purifying and balancing selection in immune defense genes, large-scale genetic diversity in antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), an important part of the innate immune system released from dermal glands in the skin, has remained uninvestigated. Here we d...

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Main Authors: Maria Cortázar-Chinarro, Yvonne Meyer-Lucht, Tom Van der Valk, Alex Richter-Boix, Anssi Laurila, Jacob Höglund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Subjects:
Rana
MHC
AMPs
Trans-specific polymorphism
Multi-locus system
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12863-020-00839-1

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