Response to Janecka et al. 2017 583 might be, that far from showing discordance, the mtDNA data instead simply corroborates a picture of relatively low genetic diversity in snow leopards (mean number of alleles per locus = 5.8) following an expansion from an estimated 8000-year-old bottleneck...
The vertebrate immune system has evolved two defense systems in response to infectious agents; the innate and the adaptive immune response. Innate immunity encompasses a large set of first-line defense factors also includ- ing antimicrobial peptides and enzymes. The adaptive system involves the on-...