Major histocompatibility complex variation and blood parasites in resident and migratory populations of the common yellowthroat

The relationship between blood parasites and ornamentation depends on the level of analysis in the common yellowthroat

(2017) Amberleigh E. Henschen et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Age-specific patterns of infection with haemosporidians and trypanosomes in a warbler: implications for sexual selection

(2017) Corey R. Freeman-Gallant et al.   OECOLOGIA

Seasonal migration distance varies with natal dispersal and predicts parasitic infection in song sparrows

(2016) Tosha R. Kelly et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Coloniality and migration are related to selection on MHC genes in birds

(2016) Piotr Minias et al.   EVOLUTION

MHC class II β exon 2 variation in pardalotes (Pardalotidae) is shaped by selection, recombination and gene conversion

(2016) Shandiya Balasubramaniam et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

MHC-I provides both quantitative resistance and susceptibility to blood parasites in blue tits in the wild

(2016) J. Rivero-de Aguilar et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Effects of avian malaria on male behaviour and female visitation in lekking blue-crowned manakins

(2016) Mariane Bosholn et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Zachary W. Bateson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The evolution of highly variable immunity genes across a passerine bird radiation

(2016) E. A. O'Connor et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Brief review of the chicken Major Histocompatibility Complex: the genes, their distribution on chromosome 16, and their contributions to disease resistance

(2016) Marcia M. Miller et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Major histocompatibility complex class II DAB alleles associated with intestinal parasite load in the vulnerable Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes)

(2016) Wei Lei et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Local parasite lineage sharing in temperate grassland birds provides clues about potential origins of Galapagos avianPlasmodium

(2016) Iris I. Levin et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Different ornaments signal male health and MHC variation in two populations of a warbler

(2015) Linda A. Whittingham et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Hidden costs of infection: Chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds

(2015) M. Asghar et al.   SCIENCE

Spatially variable coevolution between a haemosporidian parasite and the MHC of a widely distributed passerine

(2015) Matthew R. Jones et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Genetic structure in insular and mainland populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) and their hemosporidian parasites

(2015) Coraline Bichet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Variation in positively selected major histocompatibility complex class I loci in rufous-collared sparrows (Zonotrichia capensis)

(2014) Matthew R. Jones et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Predictors of malaria infection in a wild bird population: landscape-level analyses reveal climatic and anthropogenic factors

(2014) Catalina Gonzalez-Quevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

North-African house martins endure greater haemosporidian infection than their European counterparts

(2014) Juan van Rooyen et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Global distribution of malaria-resistant MHC-HLA alleles: the number and frequencies of alleles and malaria risk

(2014) László Garamszegi   MALARIA JOURNAL

Parasite load and MHC diversity in undisturbed and agriculturally modified habitats of the ornate dragon lizard

(2014) Jacek Radwan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

PCR-based isolation of multigene families: lessons from the avian MHC class IIB

(2014) R. Burri et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Flying with diverse passengers: greater richness of parasitic nematodes in migratory birds

(2014) Janet Koprivnikar et al.   OIKOS

Extraordinary MHC class II B diversity in a non-passerine, wild bird: the Eurasian CootFulica atra(Aves: Rallidae)

(2014) Miguel Alcaide et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

North American Transmission of Hemosporidian Parasites in the Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus), a Migratory Songbird

(2013) Molly Dodge et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Stacks: an analysis tool set for population genomics

(2013) Julian Catchen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Haemosporidian parasites of a European passerine wintering in South Asia: diversity, mixed infections and effect on host condition

(2013) P. Synek et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

MHC-I Affects Infection Intensity but Not Infection Status with a Frequent Avian Malaria Parasite in Blue Tits

(2013) Helena Westerdahl et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Sexual selection explains more functional variation in the mammalian major histocompatibility complex than parasitism

(2013) J. C. Winternitz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Characterization of MHC class I in a long-distance migrant shorebird suggests multiple transcribed genes and intergenic recombination

(2012) Deborah M. Buehler et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

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

(2012) Irem Sepil et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

MHC diversity, malaria and lifetime reproductive success in collared flycatchers

(2012) JACEK RADWAN 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

Social and extra-pair mating in relation to major histocompatibility complex variation in common yellowthroats

(2012) J. L. Bollmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The variant call format and VCFtools

(2011) P. Danecek et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

454 sequencing reveals extreme complexity of the class II Major Histocompatibility Complex in the collared flycatcher

(2011) Magdalena Zagalska-Neubauer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR OF BIRDS AFFECTS THEIR COEVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP WITH BLOOD PARASITES

(2011) Tania Jenkins et al.   EVOLUTION

Are chronic avian haemosporidian infections costly in wild birds?

(2011) Muhammad Asghar et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

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

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

MHC genotypes associate with resistance to a frog-killing fungus

(2011) A. E. Savage et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantitative disease resistance: to better understand parasite-mediated selection on major histocompatibility complex

(2011) H. Westerdahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variation in MHC genotypes in two populations of house sparrow (Passer domesticus) with different population histories

(2011) Åsa Alexandra Borg et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

(2010) Heng Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The blood parasite Haemoproteus reduces survival in a wild bird: a medication experiment

(2010) J. M.-d. l. Puente et al.   Biology Letters

A 454 multiplex sequencing method for rapid and reliable genotyping of highly polymorphic genes in large-scale studies

(2010) Maxime Galan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The role of parasites in ecology and evolution of migration and migratory connectivity

(2010) A. P. Møller et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

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

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

MHC-dependent survival in a wild population: evidence for hidden genetic benefits gained through extra-pair fertilizations

(2010) LYANNE BROUWER 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

Plasmodium relictum infection and MHC diversity in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

(2010) C. Loiseau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A jack-of-all-trades and still a master of some: prevalence and host range in avian malaria and related blood parasites

(2009) Olof Hellgren et al.   ECOLOGY

SEXUAL SELECTION, MULTIPLE MALE ORNAMENTS, AND AGE- AND CONDITION-DEPENDENT SIGNALING IN THE COMMON YELLOWTHROAT

(2009) Corey R. Freeman-Gallant et al.   EVOLUTION

Geographic variation in malarial parasite lineages in the common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)

(2008) K. M. Pagenkopp et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach

(2008) Sarah C. L. Knowles et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

MHC haplotype involvement in avian resistance to an ectoparasite

(2008) Jeb P. Owen et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Coevolutionary relationship between helminth diversity and MHC class II polymorphism in rodents

(2008) J. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Recent insights into humoral and cellular immune responses against malaria

(2008) James G. Beeson et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY