Associations between MHC class I variation and blood pathogen prevalence in caracal
Adaptive genetic variability is vital to long-term species survival, as it presents the potential for evolutionary adaptive responses to environmental change. Genes of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) trigger the vertebrate adaptive immune response to pathogens through the recognition and...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25052 |