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

Contrasting evolutionary histories of MHC class I and class II loci in grouse—effects of selection and gene conversion

(2016) P Minias et al.   HEREDITY

A pedigree gone bad: increased offspring survival after using DNA-based relatedness to minimize inbreeding in a captive population

(2015) S. C. Hammerly et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Indirect effects of red imported fire ants on Attwater's prairie-chicken brood survival

(2015) Michael E. Morrow et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Inbreeding Affects Gene Expression Differently in Two Self-IncompatibleArabidopsis lyrataPopulations with Similar Levels of Inbreeding Depression

(2015) Mandy Menzel et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Contrasting patterns of selection and drift between two categories of immune genes in prairie-chickens

(2015) Zachary W. Bateson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Heterozygote advantage at MHCDRBmay influence response to infectious disease epizootics

(2015) Amy J. Osborne et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Impacts of early viability selection on management of inbreeding and genetic diversity in conservation

(2015) Catherine E. Grueber et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Selection and sex-biased dispersal in a coastal shark: the influence of philopatry on adaptive variation

(2015) D. S. Portnoy et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Red Queen Processes Drive Positive Selection on Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Genes

(2015) Maciej Jan Ejsmond et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genetic restoration of a threatened population of greater prairie-chickens

(2014) Zachary W. Bateson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Does inbreeding affect gene expression in birds?

(2014) B. Hansson et al.   Biology Letters

Pathogen burden, co-infection and major histocompatibility complex variability in the European badger (Meles meles)

(2014) Yung Wa Sin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic depletion at adaptive but not neutral loci in an endangered bird species

(2014) Stefanie A. Hartmann et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Major Histocompatibility Complex class IIb polymorphism influences gut microbiota composition and diversity

(2014) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Immune response genes and pathogen presence predict migration survival in wild salmon smolts

(2014) Ken M. Jeffries et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ultra-deep Illumina sequencing accurately identifies MHC class IIb alleles and provides evidence for copy number variation in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

(2014) Jackie Lighten et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

dDocent: a RADseq, variant-calling pipeline designed for population genomics of non-model organisms

(2014) Jonathan B. Puritz et al.   PeerJ

MHC genotyping of non-model organisms using next-generation sequencing: a new methodology to deal with artefacts and allelic dropout

(2013) Simone Sommer et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

(2013) Catherine E. Grueber et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A comparison of pedigree- and DNA-based measures for identifying inbreeding depression in the critically endangered Attwater's Prairie-chicken

(2013) Susan C. Hammerly et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Polymorphisms at the innate immune receptor TLR2 are associated with Borrelia infection in a wild rodent population

(2013) B. Tschirren et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is CD69 an effective brake to control inflammatory diseases?

(2013) Roberto González-Amaro et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MHC VARIATION IS RELATED TO A SEXUALLY SELECTED ORNAMENT, SURVIVAL, AND PARASITE RESISTANCE IN COMMON YELLOWTHROATS

(2012) Peter O. Dunn et al.   EVOLUTION

MHC influences infection with parasites and winter survival in the root vole Microtus oeconomus

(2012) Agnieszka Kloch et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Greater prairie chickens have a compact MHC-B with a single class IA locus

(2012) J. A. Eimes et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

TLR15 Is Unique to Avian and Reptilian Lineages and Recognizes a Yeast-Derived Agonist

(2012) A. C. Boyd et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Ontogenetic changes in innate immune function in captive and wild subspecies of prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido spp.)

(2012) Samuel A. Meier et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in zebra finches: microsatellite markers can be better than their reputation

(2012) WOLFGANG FORSTMEIER 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

Innate immunity and the evolution of resistance to an emerging infectious disease in a wild bird

(2012) CAMILLE BONNEAUD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Double Digest RADseq: An Inexpensive Method for De Novo SNP Discovery and Genotyping in Model and Non-Model Species

(2012) Brant K. Peterson et al.   PLoS One

IL-4 Haplotype -590T, -34T and Intron-3 VNTR R2 Is Associated with Reduced Malaria Risk among Ancestral Indian Tribal Populations

(2012) Aditya Nath Jha et al.   PLoS One

Ex situ conservation genetics: a review of molecular studies on the genetic consequences of captive breeding programmes for endangered animal species

(2011) Kathrin A. Witzenberger et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The variant call format and VCFtools

(2011) P. Danecek et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Antagonistic pleiotropy as a widespread mechanism for the maintenance of polymorphic disease alleles

(2011) Ashley JR Carter et al.   BMC Medical Genetics

MHC variation, multiple simultaneous infections and physiological condition in the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum

(2011) Ana Paula Cutrera et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

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

jMHC: software assistant for multilocus genotyping of gene families using next-generation amplicon sequencing

(2011) MICHAŁ T. STUGLIK et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Genetic Diversity in Cytokines Associated with Immune Variation and Resistance to Multiple Pathogens in a Natural Rodent Population

(2011) Andrew K. Turner et al.   PLoS Genetics

Wildlife translocation: the conservation implications of pathogen exposure and genetic heterozygosity

(2011) Walter M Boyce et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

(2010) Heng Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Negative relationships between cellular immune response, Mhc class II heterozygosity and secondary sexual trait in the montane water vole

(2010) Nathalie Charbonnel et al.   Evolutionary Applications

MHC class II DRB diversity in raccoons (Procyon lotor) reveals associations with raccoon rabies virus (Lyssavirus)

(2010) Vythegi Srithayakumar et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

In vitro tests of natural allelic variation of innate immune genes (avian β-defensins) reveal functional differences in microbial inhibition

(2010) O. HELLGREN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Effects of an MHC-DRB genotype and allele number on the load of gut parasites in the bank voleMyodes glareolus

(2010) AGNIESZKA KLOCH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

MHC heterozygosity and survival in red junglefowl

(2010) KIRSTY WORLEY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

(2010) Jian Yang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Condition, innate immunity and disease mortality of inbred crows

(2010) A. K. Townsend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Effect of Specific MHC Class I and Class II Combinations on Resistance to Furunculosis in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)

(2010) S. Kjøglum et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Using false discovery rates for multiple comparisons in ecology and evolution

(2010) Nathan Pike   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

(2009) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Does reduced MHC diversity decrease viability of vertebrate populations?

(2009) Jacek Radwan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Simple quantification of blood and plasma antimicrobial capacity using spectrophotometry

(2009) Andrea L. Liebl et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mhc class II diversity and balancing selection in greater prairie-chickens

(2009) John A. Eimes et al.   GENETICA

A quantitative review of heterozygosity-fitness correlations in animal populations

(2009) J. R. CHAPMAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The genetics of inbreeding depression

(2009) Deborah Charlesworth et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Disease-mediated inbreeding depression in a large, open population of cooperative crows

(2009) A. K. Townsend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Research on inbreeding in the ‘omic’ era

(2009) Torsten N. Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Antagonistic effects of a Mhc class I allele on malaria-infected house sparrows

(2008) Claire Loiseau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High allelic polymorphism, moderate sequence diversity and diversifying selection for B-NK but not B-lec, the pair of lectin-like receptor genes in the chicken MHC

(2008) Sally L. Rogers et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Immune-challenged house wren broods differ in the relative strengths of their responses among different axes of the immune system

(2008) A. M. FORSMAN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Heterozygosity-fitness correlations and their relevance to studies on inbreeding depression in threatened species

(2008) CATHERINE E GRUEBER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Decoding of Superimposed Traces Produced by Direct Sequencing of Heterozygous Indels

(2008) Dmitry A. Dmitriev et al.   PLoS Computational Biology