Despite frequent inbreeding, banded #mongooses show #MHC diversity on par with species of least conservation concern.

New📄Schubert et al. 2025 #BMCEcolEvol provide first full MHC characterization in a wild social #carnivore @bmc.springernature.com

#conservationgenetics
👉 doi.org/10.1186/s128...

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Congratulations Dr. Schubert! Nadine successfully defended her thesis on genetically-based social communication in banded mongooses!

A 4-year funded PhD position in avian evolutionary immunology at Charles University, Prague (DEADLINE for applications POSTPONED to 9th April 2025)
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I'm happy to share a new preprint from our lab by Nadine Schubert and colleagues characterizing banded mongoose MHC using NGS. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi, new here and just wanted to introduce myself. I'm an evolutionary biologist, interested in MHC, disease ecology, sexual selection, and immune gene evolution🧬. I work on wildlife, mostly small mammals 🐀. I'm excited to be part of the science community here!