Evolutionary genetics of immunological supertypes reveals two faces of the Red Queen

Host-parasite coevolution can lead to arms races favouring novel immunogenetic alleles or the maintenance of diversity in a balanced polymorphism. Here, Lighten et al. combine data on MHC diversity across three guppy species and simulations to show that polymorphisms of immunogenetic supertypes may...

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Main Authors: Jackie Lighten, Alexander S. T. Papadopulos, Ryan S. Mohammed, Ben J. Ward, Ian G. Paterson, Lyndsey Baillie, Ian R. Bradbury, Andrew P. Hendry, Paul Bentzen, Cock van Oosterhout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01183-2