Title: Contemporary
evolution of the viral-sensing TLR3 gene in an isolated
vertebrate population
Short title: TLR3 evolution in an isolated population
Charli S. Davies1, *, Martin I.
Taylor1, Martijn Hammers2, Terry
Burke3, Jan Komdeur2, Hannah L.
Dugdale2, 4 & David S. Richardson1,
5, *
1 School of Biological Sciences, University of East
Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, UK
2 Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences
(GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen,
The Netherlands
3 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University
of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
4 Faculty of Biological Sciences, School of Biology,
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
5 Nature Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Mahé, Republic of
Seychelles
*Corresponding author. Email: charli.davies@yahoo.co.uk;
david.richardson@uea.ac.uk