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The role of duplication in the evolution of avian MHC

2015/19/D/NZ8/01310

Keywords:

balancing selection birth-and death evolution copy number variation gene duplication major histocompatibility complex

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Biologii i Ochrony Środowiska

woj. łódzkie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Piotr Minias 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: SONATA 10 - announced on 2015-09-15

Amount awarded: 647 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-07-08

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2020-07-07

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Spektrofotometr NanoDrop (35 000 PLN)
  2. Destylarka do wody (7 000 PLN)
  3. Komputer (5 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (6)
  1. Distinct evolutionary trajectories of MHC class I and class II genes in Old World finches and buntings
    Authors:
    Minias, P., Włodarczyk, R., Remisiewicz, M., Cobzaru, I., Janiszewski, T.
    Academic press:
    Heredity (rok: 2021, tom: 126, strony: 974-990), Wydawca: SpringerNature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41437-021-00427-8 - link to the publication
  2. Allelic diversity and selection at the MHC class I and class II in a bottlenecked bird of prey, the White-tailed Eagle
    Authors:
    Minias, P., Pikus, E., Anderwald, D.
    Academic press:
    BMC Evolutionary Biology (rok: 2019, tom: 19, strony: 2), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1186/s12862-018-1338-3 - link to the publication
  3. Evolution of copy number at the MHC varies across the avian tree of life
    Authors:
    Minias, P., Pikus, E., Whittingham, L., Dunn, P.
    Academic press:
    Genome Biology and Evolution (rok: 2019, tom: 11, strony: 17-28), Wydawca: Oxford Academic
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/gbe/evy253 - link to the publication
  4. Long-read genome assemblies reveal extraordinary variation in the number and structure of MHC loci in birds
    Authors:
    He K., Minias P., Dunn P.O.
    Academic press:
    Genome Biology and Evolution (rok: 2020, tom: 13, strony: evaa270), Wydawca: Oxford Academic
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/gbe/evaa270 - link to the publication
  5. A global analysis of selection at the avian MHC
    Authors:
    Minias, P., Pikus, W., Whittingham, L.A., Dunn, P.O.
    Academic press:
    Evolution (rok: 2018, tom: 72, strony: 1278-1293), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/evo.13490 - link to the publication
  6. Avian major histocompatibility complex copy number variation is associated with helminth richness
    Authors:
    Minias P., Gutiérrez J.S., Dunn P.O.
    Academic press:
    Biology Letters (rok: 2020, tom: 16, strony: 20200194), Wydawca: The Royal Society Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1098/rsbl.2020.0194 - link to the publication

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