Evidence of pathogen-induced immunogenetic selection across the large geographic range of a wild seabird

• Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Levy, Hila, Fiddaman, Steven R., Vianna, Juliana A., Noll, Daly, Clucas, Gemma V., Sidhu, Jasmine K.H., Polito, Michael J., Bost, Charles A., Phillips, Richard A., Crofts, Sarah, Miller, Gary D., Pistorius, Pierre, Bonnadonna, Francesco, Le Bohec, Celine, Barbosa, Andres, Trathan, Phil, Raya Rey, Andrea Nélida, Frantz, Laurent A.F., Hart, Tom, Smith, Adrian L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA AND SOUTHERN OCEAN; GENTOO PENGUIN; IMMUNOGENETICS; PATHOGEN-MEDIATED SELECTION; POSITIVE SELECTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Southern Ocean; Levy; Daly; Antarc*; Antarctica; Gentoo penguin; Pygoscelis papua
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/141119

Over evolutionary time,pathogen challenge shapes theimmunephenotype of the host tobetterrespondtoanincipient threat. The extent and direction of this selection pressure depend on the local pathogen composition, which is in turn determined by biotic and abiotic features of the environment. However, l...