Title |
Transcriptomic characterization of the immunogenetic repertoires of heteromyid rodents
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, October 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-929 |
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Authors |
Nicholas J Marra, J Andrew DeWoody |
Abstract |
When populations evolve under disparate environmental conditions, they experience different selective pressures that shape patterns of sequence evolution and gene expression. These may be manifested in genetic and phenotypic differences such as a diverse immunogenetic repertoire in species from tropical latitudes that have greater and/or different parasite burdens than more temperate species. To test this idea, we compared the transcriptomes of one tropical species (Heteromys desmarestianus) and two species from temperate latitudes (Dipodomys spectabilis and Chaetodipus baileyi) from the Heteromyidae. We did so in a search for positive selection on sequences and/or differential expression, while controlling for phylogenetic history in our choice of species. |
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