MHC-I diversity enables rapid adaptation during viral pandemic in wild rabbit populations
Yexin Zhang, Jonathan P. Day, Marina Lirintzi, Jiayi Ji, Clive A. Tregaskes, Miguel Carneiro, Joel M. Alves, Tanja Strive, Jim Kaufman, Francis M. Jiggins
The paper shows MHC-I diversity allowed wild rabbits to rapidly adapt to the myxoma virus pandemic through evolutionary shifts in allele frequencies.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · May 11, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology