Contrasting Epidemic Histories Reveal Pathogen-Mediated Balancing Selection on Class II MHC Diversity in a Wild Songbird

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Dana M. Hawley ,

* E-mail: hawleyd@vt.edu

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States of America
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Robert C. Fleischer

Affiliation Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States of America
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