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