Contrasting epidemic histories reveal pathogen-mediated balancing selection on class II MHC diversity in a wild songbird

The extent to which pathogens maintain the extraordinary polymorphism at vertebrate Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes via balancing selection has intrigued evolutionary biologists for over half a century, but direct tests remain challenging. Here we examine whether a well-characterized ep...

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