Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC plymorphism
Article Abstract:
Gravid female sticklebacks were found to prefer the odour of males with large number of major histocompatibility complex class-IIB alleles to males with fewer alleles.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
Sticklebacks
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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Sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction
Article Abstract:
Research into sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction shows that sexual selection can moderate or eradicate the cost of sex.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
Sex (Biology)
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex
Article Abstract:
Research into differential male mating success and sexual selection is presented.
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Ltd.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
Sexual behavior in animals, Animal sexual behavior
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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Subjects list: Research, Sexual selection in animals, Sexual selection (Natural selection)
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