Patterns of MHC-DRB1 polymorphism in a post-glacial island canid, the Newfoundland red fox (Vulpes vulpes deletrix), suggest balancing selection at species and population timescales

• Published in: Immunogenetics
• Main Authors: Marshall, H. Dawn, Langille, Barbara L., Hann, Crystal A., Whitney, Hugh G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
• Subjects: Short Communication; Ewens; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4842217/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26894280; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-016-0907-0

As the only native insular Newfoundland canid between the extinction of the wolf in the 1930s and the recent arrival of coyotes, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes deletrix Bangs 1898) poses interesting questions about genetic distinctiveness and the post-glacial colonization history of the island’s depaupe...