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Extremely high major histocompatibility complex class IIb gene intron 2 variation and population structure in Chinese alligator

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The authors are grateful to several anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions on revising the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, no. 30770312), the Excellent Creative Research Team of Animal Biology in Anhui Normal University and the Key Laboratory of Biotic Environment and Ecological Safety in Anhui Province, Zoology Practical Skills Training Center in Fuyang Teachers College. We are also grateful to the assistance of Anhui Research Center for Chinese Alligator Reproduction in this study.

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    CHUANPENG NIE, JUAN ZHAO & XIAOBING WU

  2. College of Life Sciences, Fuyang Teachers College, Fuyang, 236041, People’s Republic of China

    CHUANPENG NIE & YANYAN LI

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[Nie C., Li Y., Zhao J. and Wu X. 2012 Extremely high major histocompatibility complex class IIb gene intron 2 variation and population structure in Chinese alligator. J. Genet. 91, e86–e91. Online only: http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/OnlineResources/91/e86.pdf]

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NIE, C., LI, Y., ZHAO, J. et al. Extremely high major histocompatibility complex class IIb gene intron 2 variation and population structure in Chinese alligator. J Genet 93 (Suppl 1), 86–91 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-012-0174-2

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