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No evidence for a relationship between MHC heterozygosity and life history strategy in a sample of North American undergraduates.
Scientific reports - 23 Jun 2020
Murray Damian R, Moran James B, Prokosch Marjorie L, Kerry Nicholas
Abstract excerpt
Although allelic diversity at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has implications for adaptive immunity, mate choice, and social signalling, how diversity at the MHC influences the calibration of life history strategies remains largely uninvestigated. The current study investigated whether greater MHC heterozygosity was associated with markers of slower life history strategies in a sample of 789 North...
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