Immune genes are hotspots of shared positive selection across birds and mammals

Consistent patterns of positive selection in functionally similar genes can suggest a common selective pressure across a group of species. We use alignments of orthologous protein-coding genes from 39 species of birds to estimate parameters related to positive selection for 11,000 genes conserved ac...

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Main Authors: Allison J Shultz, Timothy B Sackton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-01-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/41815