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

Balancing Selection Is the Main Force Shaping the Evolution of Innate Immunity Genes

(2014) A. Ferrer-Admetlla et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Simulating Retention of Rare Alleles in Small Populations to Assess Management Options for Species with Different Life Histories

(2013) EMILY L. WEISER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

INBREEDING INFLUENCES WITHIN-BROOD HETEROZYGOSITY-FITNESS CORRELATIONS (HFCS) IN AN ISOLATED PASSERINE POPULATION

(2013) Sheena M. Townsend et al.   EVOLUTION

Current perspectives on the intensity of natural selection of MHC loci

(2013) Yoshiki Yasukochi et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Molecular and pedigree measures of relatedness provide similar estimates of inbreeding depression in a bottlenecked population

(2013) S. M. Townsend et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Maintenance of major histocompatibility supertype variation in selfing vertebrate is no evidence for overdominant selection

(2013) C. van Oosterhout   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Selection Maintains MHC Diversity through a Natural Population Bottleneck

(2012) M. K. Oliver et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Selection and microevolution of coat pattern are cryptic in a wild population of sheep

(2012) J. GRATTEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mhc-linked survival and lifetime reproductive success in a wild population of great tits

(2012) Irem Sepil et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

AlleleRetain: a program to assess management options for conserving allelic diversity in small, isolated populations

(2012) E. L. Weiser et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Loss of Mhc and Neutral Variation in Peary Caribou: Genetic Drift Is Not Mitigated by Balancing Selection or Exacerbated by Mhc Allele Distributions

(2012) Sabrina S. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Variation at Innate Immunity Toll-Like Receptor Genes in a Bottlenecked Population of a New Zealand Robin

(2012) Catherine E. Grueber et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary Analysis of Classical HLA Class I and II Genes Suggests That Recent Positive Selection Acted on DPB1*04∶01 in Japanese Population

(2012) Minae Kawashima et al.   PLoS One

Maintaining functional major histocompatibility complex diversity under inbreeding: the case of a selfing vertebrate

(2012) A. Ellison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What is the evidence for heterozygote advantage selection?

(2012) Philip W. Hedrick   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite markers from the South Island robin (Petroica australis)

(2012) Sheena M. Townsend et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Can balancing selection on MHC loci counteract genetic drift in small fragmented populations of black grouse?

(2012) Tanja M. Strand et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Extensive polymorphism in the porcine Toll-like receptor 10 gene

(2011) I.-M. Bergman et al.   International Journal of Immunogenetics

Rapid loss of MHC class II variation in a bottlenecked population is explained by drift and loss of copy number variation

(2011) J. A. EIMES et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular Evolution of the Toll-Like Receptor Multigene Family in Birds

(2011) M. Alcaide et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Drift and selection influence geographic variation at immune loci of prairie-chickens

(2011) JENNIFER L. BOLLMER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Major histocompatibility complex variation in insular populations of the Egyptian vulture: inferences about the roles of genetic drift and selection

(2011) ROSA AGUDO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Disentangling the roles of natural selection and genetic drift in shaping variation at MHC immunity genes

(2011) JOLENE T. SUTTON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Chelex without boiling, a rapid and easy technique to obtain stable amplifiable DNA from small amounts of ethanol-stored spiders

(2011) JULIANE CASQUET et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Polymorphisms of innate immunity receptors in infection by parasites

(2011) M. I. VILLASEÑOR-CARDOSO et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Translocation of species, climate change, and the end of trying to recreate past ecological communities

(2011) Chris D Thomas   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Is lack of evidence of inbreeding depression in a threatened New Zealand robin indicative of reduced genetic load?

(2010) R. J. Laws et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Avian toll-like receptors

(2010) Robert Brownlie et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Founder Effects, Inbreeding, and Loss of Genetic Diversity in Four Avian Reintroduction Programs

(2010) IAN G. JAMIESON   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Conservation genetics of population bottlenecks: the role of chance, selection, and history

(2010) Juan L. Bouzat   CONSERVATION GENETICS

First identification of Toll-like receptor-4 in avian brain: evolution of lipopolysaccharide recognition and inflammation-dependent responses

(2010) Concetta Saponaro et al.   IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY AND IMMUNOTOXICOLOGY

Extensive MHC Class II B Gene Duplication in a Passerine, the Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)

(2010) Jennifer L. Bollmer et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

On the relative roles of selection and genetic drift in shaping MHC variation

(2010) MIGUEL ALCAIDE   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rhh: an R extension for estimating multilocus heterozygosity and heterozygosity-heterozygosity correlation

(2010) JUSSI S. ALHO et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

From Reintroduction to Assisted Colonization: Moving along the Conservation Translocation Spectrum

(2010) Philip J. Seddon   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Does reduced MHC diversity decrease viability of vertebrate populations?

(2009) Jacek Radwan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

MHC diversity in bottlenecked populations: a simulation model

(2009) Maciej Jan Ejsmond et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

New generation sequencers as a tool for genotyping of highly polymorphic multilocus MHC system

(2009) WIESŁAW BABIK et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Methods for MHC genotyping in non-model vertebrates

(2009) W. BABIK   Molecular Ecology Resources

Signatures of natural selection are not uniform across genes of innate immune system, but purifying selection is the dominant signature

(2009) S. Mukherjee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of the first Toll-like receptor gene in passerine birds: TLR4 orthologue in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

(2009) M. Vinkler et al.   TISSUE ANTIGENS

Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Toll-Like Receptors and Their Different Contributions to Host Defense

(2009) Luis B. Barreiro et al.   PLoS Genetics

A new theory of MHC evolution: beyond selection on the immune genes

(2008) C. van Oosterhout   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES