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Mate choice decisions of stickleback females predictably modified by MHC peptide ligands.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Mar 2005

Milinski Manfred, Griffiths Siân, Wegner K Mathias, Reusch Thorsten B H, Haas-Assenbaum Annette, Boehm Thomas

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Sexual selection has been proposed as one mechanism to explain the maintenance of high allelic diversity in MHC genes that control the extent of resistance against pathogens and parasites in natural populations. MHC-based sexual selection is known to involve olfactory mechanisms in fish, mice, and humans. During mate choice, females of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) use an odor-based...

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PMID: 15755811
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408264102
PMCID: PMC555479

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