Antimicrobial peptide evolution in leopard frogs and other animals

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Jacob A Tennessen and Michael S Blouin. 2010. “A revised leopard frog phylogeny allows a more detailed examination of adaptive evolution at ranatuerin-2 antimicrobial peptide loci.” Immunogenetics, 62, 5, Pp. 333–343.


Jacob A Tennessen, Douglas C Woodhams, Pierre Chaurand, Laura K Reinert, Dean Billheimer, Yu Shyr, Richard M Caprioli, Michael S Blouin, and Louise A Rollins-Smith. 2009. “Variations in the expressed antimicrobial peptide repertoire of northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) populations suggest intraspecies differences in resistance to pathogens.” Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 33, 12, Pp. 1247–1257.


Jacob A Tennessen and Michael S Blouin. 2008. “Balancing selection at a frog antimicrobial peptide locus: fluctuating immune effector alleles?” Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25, 12, Pp. 2669–2680.


Jacob A Tennessen. 2008. “Positive selection drives a correlation between non-synonymous/synonymous divergence and functional divergence.” Bioinformatics, 24, 12, Pp. 1421–1425.


Jacob A Tennessen and Michael S Blouin. 2007. “Selection for antimicrobial peptide diversity in frogs leads to gene duplication and low allelic variation.” Journal of Molecular Evolution, 65, 5, Pp. 605–615.


Jacob A Tennessen. 2005. “Enhanced synonymous site divergence in positively selected vertebrate antimicrobial peptide genes.” Journal of Molecular Evolution, 61, 4, Pp. 445–455.


JA Tennessen. 2005. “Molecular evolution of animal antimicrobial peptides: widespread moderate positive selection.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 18, 6, Pp. 1387–1394.