Towards a functional understanding of "good genes"

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 178-185

  Siva Jothy, Michael T ^a   Skarstein, Frode ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

"Good genes"; Immunocompetence; Insect immunity; Parasite mediated sexual selection; Vertebrate immune resistance genes

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0001125970     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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