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Dominik Melville
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Wildlife microbiology, disease ecology, immunology 🦇🦠 wannabe chef 🥨 married to a Scot 🌈
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on the meerkats’ major histocompatibilit...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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September 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I don’t have a solution to this, but just wanted to let you know that I am in exactly the same place right now - you are not alone
September 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Luke, you were a great asset! Your work on mapping our alleles to a published meerkat genome gave the work more accuracy and credibility, and talking about the findings to you help to clarify the story, for sure.
August 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM