A review of urban impacts on avian life‐history evolution: Does city living lead to slower pace of life?

T Sepp, KJ McGraw, A Kaasik… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of a pace‐of‐life syndrome describes inter‐and intraspecific variation in several
life‐history traits along a slow‐to‐fast pace‐of‐life continuum, with long lifespans, low …

Avian MHC evolution in the era of genomics: phase 1.0

EA O'Connor, H Westerdahl, R Burri, SV Edwards - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Birds are a wonderfully diverse and accessible clade with an exceptional range of ecologies
and behaviors, making the study of the avian major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of …

Mhc supertypes confer both qualitative and quantitative resistance to avian malaria infections in a wild bird population

I Sepil, S Lachish, AE Hinks… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) genes are believed to play a key role in the genetic
basis of disease control. Although numerous studies have sought links between Mhc and …

Genetic drift outweighs natural selection at toll‐like receptor (TLR) immunity loci in a re‐introduced population of a threatened species

CE Grueber, GP Wallis, IG Jamieson - Molecular Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
During population establishment, genetic drift can be the key driver of changes in genetic
diversity, particularly while the population is small. However, natural selection can also play …

Specific alleles at immune genes, rather than genome‐wide heterozygosity, are related to immunity and survival in the critically endangered Attwater's prairie‐chicken

ZW Bateson, SC Hammerly, JA Johnson… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The negative effects of inbreeding on fitness are serious concerns for populations of
endangered species. Reduced fitness has been associated with lower genome‐wide …

MHC class II genes mediate susceptibility and resistance to coronavirus infections in bats

DW Schmid, M Meyer, K Wilhelm, T Tilley… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the immunogenetic basis of coronavirus (CoV) susceptibility in major
pathogen reservoirs, such as bats, is central to inferring their zoonotic potential. Members of …

Critical review of NGS analyses for de novo genoty** multigene families

J Lighten, C Van Oosterhout, P Bentzen - Molecular Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The genoty** of highly polymorphic multigene families across many individuals used to be
a particularly challenging task because of methodological limitations associated with …

Contemporary evolution of the innate immune receptor gene TLR3 in an isolated vertebrate population

CS Davies, MI Taylor, M Hammers, T Burke… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding where genetic variation exists, and how it influences fitness within
populations is important from an evolutionary and conservation perspective. Signatures of …

Is MHC diversity a better marker for conservation than neutral genetic diversity? A case study of two contrasting dolphin populations

O Manlik, M Krützen, AM Kopps, J Mann… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic diversity is essential for populations to adapt to changing environments. Measures
of genetic diversity are often based on selectively neutral markers, such as microsatellites …

The avian major histocompatibility complex

J Kaufman - Avian Immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a genetic region encoding classical class I
and class II molecules that are highly polymorphic, are widely and strongly expressed …