Fig. 3.

Lynx MHC class I and class II DRB supertypes. We used average hierarchical clustering and a cut-off threshold of Euclidean distance ≥15 to classify alleles into distinctive functional groups (supertypes, ST) based on functional similarity of their ABS. Alleles with identical amino acids at ABS are represented as polytomies at 0 Euclidean distance. Alleles in the same line are identical at the nucleotide level. Alleles are specified with their allele number in each species