Research article

Correlated evolution of nucleotide substitution rates and allelic variation in Mhc-DRB lineages of primates

László Z Garamszegi^1,²^*, Natasja G de Groot³ and Ronald E Bontrop³

¹ Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium

² Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, c/Americo Vespucio, s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain

³ Department of Comparative Genetics and Refinement, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, PO Box 3306, 2280 GH Rijswijk, the Netherlands

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:73 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-73

Published: 12 April 2009

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Primate DRB.

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Refrences used in this study.

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