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Table 1 Diversity of the ELA-DRA, exon 2, by taxon

From: Adaptive molecular evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex genes, DRA and DQA, in the genus Equus

Taxonomic group

MHC symbol

No. of nucleotide sequences

No. of protein sequences

Bovine

BoLA

1

1

Canine

DLA

1

1

Human

HLA

1

1

Non-Human Primate

NHP

13

2

Ovine

OLA

3

3

Swine

SLA

4

3

Equine*

ELA

22

10

  1. Information extracted from the international ImMunoGeneTics (IMGT) information system® (http://www.imgt.org) and the Immuno Polymorphism Database - MHC (IPD-MHC) (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/mhc/).
  2. *Equine data was compiled in this study.