Immune genes are hotspots of shared positive selection across birds and mammals

Immune genes are hotspots of shared positive selection across birds and mammals

Consistent patterns of positive selection in functionally similar genes can suggest a common selective pressure across a group of species. We use alignments of orthologous protein-coding genes from 39 species of birds to estimate parameters related to positive selection for 11,000 genes conserved ac...

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Main Authors: Allison J Shultz, Timothy B Sackton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-01-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
birds
host-pathogen co-evolution
comparative genomics
comparative transcriptomics
viruses
mammals
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/41815

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