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  • Adaptive diversity and divergence at frog antimicrobial peptide loci

    Creator:
    Tennessen, Jacob A.
    Abstract:
    In this dissertation I study evolutionary patterns at genes encoding antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in frogs. AMPs are short, amphipathic, cationic, secreted proteins that kill bacteria and other pathogens through a non-catalytic mechanism that involves binding to and disrupting the microbial cell membrane. In many animal taxa, positive selection is much...
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    Dissertation
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    , Leslie Dyall, Dafne Eerkes- Medrano, Deb Finn, Elise Granek, Margot Hessing-Lewis, Darren Johnson, Karen