Hyper-IgM (HIGM) Syndrome. Definition of HIGM Syndrome. As the name suggests, people with hyper-IgM (HIGM) syndrome have an excess of IgM and reduced levels of other immunoglobulins, including IgG and IgA. This happens because the body cannot change production of IgM to other antibodies.
Wild Boar. Wild Boar Classification and Evolution. The Wild Boar is a species of Wild Pig, native to the forests of Europe, north-west Africa and it is also found throughout Asia. The Wild Boar has an extremely wide distribution with the number of estimated Wild Boar subspecies ranging from 4 to 25. Naturally...
A study of pig mtDNA sequences by Greger Larson and colleagues in Science establishes that domesticated pigs originated in multiple geographic locations from different ancient wild boar populations.hey also argue that the structure of the data exclude the alternative hypothesis, that European wild boars are largely derived from feral populations of pigs with origins elsewhere. Additional pigs from other regions appear to provide evidence of several other domestication events in other areas.