Compatibility counts: MHC-associated mate choice in a wild promiscuous primate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1634, 2008, Pages 555-564

  Schwensow, Nina ^a,b   Eberle, Manfred ^c   Sommer, Simone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptic mate choice; Good genes; Madagascar; MHC class II; Microcebus murinus; Promiscuity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

CRYPSIS; GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS; MATE CHOICE; PRIMATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COPULATION; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

ANIMALIA; LEMUR; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 38549167904     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1433     Document Type: Article

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