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Major histocompatibility complex variation in insular populations of the Egyptian vulture: inferences about the roles of genetic drift and selection
10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05107.x · 2011 · External reference
Toll-like Receptor Signaling
10.1074/jbc.r300028200 · 2003 · External reference
Innate immunity
2002 · External reference
ggpmisc: Miscellaneous Extensions to “ggplot2”(R package version 0.3.6.)
2020 · External reference
The island syndrome
10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.029 · 2020 · External reference
Package ‘lme4.’
2012 · External reference
Immunological Change in a Parasite-Impoverished Environment: Divergent Signals from Four Island Taxa
10.1371/journal.pone.0000896 · 2007 · External reference
Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii's avian malaria
10.1098/rspb.2006.3671 · 2006 · External reference
Long-Term Habitat Fragmentation Is Associated With Reduced MHC IIB Diversity and Increased Infections in Amphibian Hosts
10.3389/fevo.2018.00236 · 2019 · External reference
MHC studies in nonmodel vertebrates: what have we learned about natural selection in 15 years?
10.1046/j.1420-9101.2003.00531.x · 2003 · External reference
Structure, function, and diversity of class i major histocompatibility complex molecules
10.1146/annurev.bi.59.070190.001345 · 1990 · External reference
Evolution and ecology of birds on islands: trends and prospects
2000 · External reference
Metabarcoding options to study eukaryotic endoparasites of birds
10.1002/ece3.7748 · 2021 · External reference
Restitution of gamma- and K-Selection as a Model of Density-Dependent Natural Selection
10.1146/annurev.es.15.110184.002235 · 1984 · External reference
InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond—recent updates and continuing curation
10.1093/nar/gks1147 · 2012 · External reference
Quantifying the relationship between genetic diversity and population size suggests natural selection cannot explain Lewontin’s Paradox
10.7554/elife.67509 · 2021 · External reference
Nearly Neutral Evolution across the Drosophila melanogaster Genome
10.1093/molbev/msy164 · 2018 · External reference
The Evolution of Innate Immune Genes: Purifying and Balancing Selection on β-Defensins in Waterfowl
10.1093/molbev/msw167 · 2016 · External reference
The McDonald-Kreitman Test and Slightly Deleterious Mutations
10.1093/molbev/msn005 · 2008 · External reference
From Drift to Draft: How Much Do Beneficial Mutations Actually Contribute to Predictions of Ohta’s Slightly Deleterious Model of Molecular Evolution?
10.1534/genetics.119.302869 · 2020 · External reference
fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor
10.1093/bioinformatics/bty560 · 2018 · External reference
Determinants of the Efficacy of Natural Selection on Coding and Noncoding Variability in Two Passerine Species
10.1093/gbe/evx213 · 2017 · External reference
The role of immigration and<i>in-situ</i>radiation in explaining blood parasite assemblages in an island bird clade
10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05483.x · 2012 · External reference
Evolution of reproductive life histories in island birds worldwide
10.1098/rspb.2011.1785 · 2011 · External reference
Avian defensins
10.1016/j.vetimm.2007.12.006 · 2008 · External reference
Enhanced immunological surveillance in mice heterozygous at the H-2 gene complex
10.1038/256050a0 · 1975 · External reference
Worldwide patterns of bird colouration on islands
10.1111/ele.12588 · 2016 · External reference
Why highly expressed proteins evolve slowly
10.1073/pnas.0504070102 · 2005 · External reference
Mistranslation-Induced Protein Misfolding as a Dominant Constraint on Coding-Sequence Evolution
10.1016/j.cell.2008.05.042 · 2008 · External reference
The genomic landscape of species divergence in Ficedula flycatchers
10.1038/nature11584 · 2012 · External reference
Viruses are a dominant driver of protein adaptation in mammals
10.7554/elife.12469 · 2016 · External reference
The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations
10.1038/nrg2146 · 2007 · External reference
Selective Landscapes in newt Immune Genes Inferred from Patterns of Nucleotide Variation
10.1093/gbe/evw236 · 2016 · External reference
Do island populations have less genetic variation than mainland populations?
10.1038/hdy.1997.46 · 1997 · External reference
CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data
10.1093/bioinformatics/bts565 · 2012 · External reference
The evolution of virulence and host specialization in malaria parasites of primates
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00936.x · 2006 · External reference
Haplotype-based variant detection from short-read sequencing
10.48550/arxiv.1207.3907 · 2012 · External reference
454 screening of individual MHC variation in an endemic island passerine
10.1007/s00251-014-0822-1 · 2015 · External reference
Drift, not selection, shapes toll-like receptor variation among oceanic island populations
10.1111/mec.13437 · 2015 · External reference
The adaptive significance of some size trends in island birds
10.1111/j.1558-5646.1965.tb01727.x · 1965 · External reference
Genetic drift outweighs natural selection at toll-like receptor (TLR) immunity loci in a re-introduced population of a threatened species
10.1111/mec.12404 · 2013 · External reference
Episodic Positive Selection in the Evolution of Avian Toll-Like Receptor Innate Immunity Genes
10.1371/journal.pone.0089632 · 2014 · External reference
Bio++: Efficient Extensible Libraries and Tools for Computational Molecular Evolution
10.1093/molbev/mst097 · 2013 · External reference
Decreased immunocompetence in a severely bottlenecked population of an endemic New Zealand bird
10.1111/j.1469-1795.2006.00059.x · 2007 · External reference
SLiM 2: Flexible, Interactive Forward Genetic Simulations
10.1093/molbev/msw211 · 2016 · External reference
Genetic diversity predicts pathogen resistance and cell-mediated immunocompetence in house finches
10.1098/rsbl.2005.0303 · 2005 · External reference
HLA Associations with Malaria in Africa: Some Implications for MHC Evolution
10.1007/978-3-642-84622-9_33 · 1991 · External reference
Insularity and adaptation in coupled victim-enemy associations
10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00312.x · 2001 · External reference
Genetic characterization, distribution and prevalence of avian pox and avian malaria in the Berthelot’s pipit (Anthus berthelotii) in Macaronesia
10.1007/s00436-008-1153-7 · 2008 · External reference
Unforeseen biogeographical patterns in a multiple parasite system in Macaronesia
10.1111/jbi.12548 · 2015 · External reference
Where are we in the host-parasite relationships of native land vertebrates in Macaronesia?
10.7818/ecos.1971 · 2020 · External reference
“Picard Toolkit”
2019 · External reference
Biogeographical patterns of blood parasite lineage diversity in avian hosts from southern Melanesian islands
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02189.x · 2010 · External reference
adegenet 1.3-1: new tools for the analysis of genome-wide SNP data
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr521 · 2011 · External reference
Human class II major histocompatibility complex genes and proteins
10.1146/annurev.bi.57.070188.005015 · 1988 · External reference
ggpubr: “ggplot2” based publication ready plots
2018 · External reference
On the probability of fixation of mutant genes in a population
10.1093/genetics/47.6.713 · 1962 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1986 · External reference
Signatures of balancing selection in toll-like receptor (TLRs) genes – novel insights from a free-living rodent
10.1038/s41598-018-26672-2 · 2018 · External reference
Purifying Selection in Corvids Is Less Efficient on Islands
10.1093/molbev/msz233 · 2019 · External reference
lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models
10.18637/jss.v082.i13 · 2017 · External reference
Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome
10.1038/ncomms10474 · 2016 · External reference
Evolution of Darwin’s finches and their beaks revealed by genome sequencing
10.1038/nature14181 · 2015 · External reference
Editing-defective tRNA synthetase causes protein misfolding and neurodegeneration
10.1038/nature05096 · 2006 · External reference
Linking immune defenses and life history at the levels of the individual and the species
10.1093/icb/icl049 · 2006 · External reference
10.24072/pcjournal.70 · 2021 · Admitted local publication
Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations
10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.040 · 2021 · External reference
Multiple Lineages of Avian Malaria Parasites (Plasmodium) in the Galapagos Islands and Evidence for Arrival via Migratory Birds
10.1111/cobi.12127 · 2013 · External reference
Evidence of Pathogen-Induced Immunogenetic Selection across the Large Geographic Range of a Wild Seabird
10.1093/molbev/msaa040 · 2020 · External reference
Aligning sequence reads, clone sequences and assembly contigs with BWA-MEM
10.48550/arxiv.1303.3997 · 2013 · External reference
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352 · 2009 · External reference
Immunological investments reflect parasite abundance in island populations of Darwin's finches
10.1098/rspb.2004.2752 · 2004 · External reference
Insularity effects on bird immune parameters: A comparison between island and mainland populations in West Africa
10.1002/ece3.2788 · 2017 · External reference
Population genomics of the endangered giant Galápagos tortoise
10.1186/gb-2013-14-12-r136 · 2013 · External reference
Insularity effects on the assemblage of the blood parasite community of the birds from the Gulf of Guinea
10.1111/jbi.13060 · 2017 · External reference
Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of the island rule
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01314.x · 2005 · External reference
Adaptation and diversification on islands
10.1038/nature07893 · 2009 · External reference
Genetic differences between willow warbler migratory phenotypes are few and cluster in large haplotype blocks
10.1002/evl3.15 · 2017 · External reference
SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler
10.1186/2047-217x-1-18 · 2012 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1967 · External reference
Low diversity and high intra-island variation in prevalence of avian Haemoproteus parasites on Barbados, Lesser Antilles
10.1017/s0031182009990497 · 2009 · External reference
Molecular characterisation of haemoparasites in forest birds from Robinson Crusoe Island: Is the Austral Thrush a potential threat to endemic birds?
10.1017/s0959270914000227 · 2014 · External reference
Are there differences in immune function between continental and insular birds?
10.1098/rspb.2006.3590 · 2006 · External reference
Infection, immunity, and island adaptation in birds
2010 · External reference
Evolution of Copy Number at the MHC Varies across the Avian Tree of Life
10.1093/gbe/evy253 · 2019 · External reference
Characterization of the genome and transcriptome of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus: polymorphisms, sex-biased expression and selection signals
10.1111/1755-0998.12450 · 2015 · External reference
Sma3s: A Three-Step Modular Annotator for Large Sequence Datasets
10.1093/dnares/dsu001 · 2014 · External reference
IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies
10.1093/molbev/msu300 · 2014 · External reference
Parasites and the island syndrome: the colonization of the western Mediterranean islands by Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Dujardin, 1845)
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01503.x · 2006 · External reference
Wetter climates select for higher immune gene diversity in resident, but not migratory, songbirds
10.1098/rspb.2019.2675 · 2020 · External reference
The Nearly Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
10.1146/annurev.es.23.110192.001403 · 1992 · External reference
Identification of candidate disease genes by integrating Gene Ontologies and protein-interaction networks: case study of primary immunodeficiencies
10.1093/nar/gkn982 · 2009 · External reference
Factors affecting the distribution of haemosporidian parasites within an oceanic island
10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.11.008 · 2017 · External reference
ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R
10.1093/bioinformatics/bty633 · 2018 · External reference
Identifying the causes and consequences of assembly gaps using a multiplatform genome assembly of a bird‐of‐paradise
10.1111/1755-0998.13252 · 2021 · External reference
How complete are “complete” genome assemblies?-An avian perspective
10.1111/1755-0998.12933 · 2018 · External reference
Evolution of parasite island syndromes without long-term host population isolation: parasite dynamics in Macaronesian blackcaps Sylvia atricapilla
10.1111/geb.12084 · 2013 · External reference
Package ‘nlme. Linear Nonlinear Mix Eff Models Version 3
2017 · External reference
R: A language and environment for statistical computing
2018 · External reference
Disentangling Ancient Interactions: A New Extinct Passerine Provides Insights on Character Displacement among Extinct and Extant Island Finches
10.1371/journal.pone.0012956 · 2010 · External reference
MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons
10.1371/journal.pone.0022594 · 2011 · External reference
Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Common Chaffinch (Aves: Fringilla coelebs): A Valuable Resource for Evolutionary Biology
10.1093/gbe/evab034 · 2021 · External reference
Genomic Flatlining in the Endangered Island Fox
10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.062 · 2016 · External reference
Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island
10.1371/journal.pgen.1006601 · 2017 · External reference
Cost-effective, high-throughput DNA sequencing libraries for multiplexed target capture
10.1101/gr.128124.111 · 2012 · External reference
Is adaptation limited by mutation? A timescale-dependent effect of genetic diversity on the adaptive substitution rate in animals
10.1371/journal.pgen.1008668 · 2020 · External reference
The effects of historical fragmentation on major histocompatibility complex class II β and microsatellite variation in the Aegean island reptile, Podarcis erhardii
10.1002/ece3.3022 · 2017 · External reference
genBlastG: using BLAST searches to build homologous gene models
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr342 · 2011 · External reference
Immune genes are hotspots of shared positive selection across birds and mammals
10.7554/elife.41815 · 2019 · External reference
BetaScan2: Standardized Statistics to Detect Balancing Selection Utilizing Substitution Data
10.1093/gbe/evaa013 · 2020 · External reference
Prevalence of avian haemosporidian parasites and their host fidelity in the central Philippine islands
10.1016/j.parint.2012.07.003 · 2012 · External reference
A software tool ‘CroCo’ detects pervasive cross-species contamination in next generation sequencing data
10.1186/s12915-018-0486-7 · 2018 · External reference
Stable recombination hotspots in birds
10.1126/science.aad0843 · 2015 · External reference
Overdominant vs. frequency-dependent selection at MHC loci
10.1093/genetics/132.3.861 · 1992 · External reference
Package ggrepel. Autom Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels ggplot2
2018 · External reference
Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird
10.1101/gr.204669.116 · 2016 · External reference
Package ‘qpcR. ‘Model Anal Real-Time PCRdata Httpscran R-Proj’. (OrgwebpackagesqpcRqpcR Pdf)
2018 · External reference
Gene conversion rapidly generates major histocompatibility complex diversity in recently founded bird populations
10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05367.x · 2011 · External reference
GNU parallel 2018
10.5281/zenodo.1146014 · 2018 · External reference
The Epizootiology and Ecological Significance of Malaria in Hawaiian Land Birds
10.2307/1942550 · 1986 · External reference
Toll-Like Receptor Evolution in Birds: Gene Duplication, Pseudogenization, and Diversifying Selection
10.1093/molbev/msy119 · 2018 · External reference
The genome of a songbird
10.1038/nature08819 · 2010 · External reference
Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson
10.1111/ele.12398 · 2015 · External reference
Divergence and Polymorphism Under the Nearly Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
10.1007/s00239-008-9146-9 · 2008 · External reference
Data Analysis
10.1007/978-3-319-24277-4_9 · 2016 · External reference
Galápagos Birds and Diseases: Invasive Pathogens as Threats for Island Species
10.5751/es-00605-090105 · 2004 · External reference
Nonlinear Dynamics of Nonsynonymous (dN) and Synonymous (dS) Substitution Rates Affects Inference of Selection
10.1093/gbe/evp030 · 2009 · External reference
The genome of Darwin’s Finch (Geospiza fortis)
10.5524/100040 · 2012 · External reference