Major histocompatibility complex and mate choice in sand lizards

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Olsson, Mats ^a   Madsen, Thomas ^b,c   Nordby, Jessica ^a   Wapstra, Erik ^d   Ujvari, Beata ^a,b   Wittsell, Håkan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetic complementarity; Lizards; Major histocompatibility complex; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

GENOTYPE; LIZARD; MATE CHOICE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; LABORATORY; LIZARD; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; LACERTA; LACERTA AGILIS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0242658821     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0079     Document Type: Article

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