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SUBMITTER: Taylor SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3360046 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taylor Sabrina S SS Jenkins Deborah A DA Arcese Peter P
PloS one 20120524 5
Theory and empirical results suggest that the rate of loss of variation at Mhc and neutral microsatellite loci may differ because selection influences Mhc genes, and because a high proportion of rare alleles at Mhc loci may result in high rates of loss via drift. Most published studies compare Mhc and microsatellite variation in various contemporary populations to infer the effects of population size on genetic variation, even though different populations are likely to have different demographic ...[more]