NATURAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX LOCI

Austin L. Hughes and Meredith Yeager

Department of Biology and Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 16802 USA

Received 5/11/98 Accepted 5/22/98

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