Is the peacock's train an honest signal of genetic quality at the major histocompatibility complex?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1284-1294

  Hale, M L ^a,b   Verduijn, M H ^b   Moller A P ^c   Wolff, K ^b   Petrie, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive CNRS UMR 7103 UFR 927   (France)

Author keywords

Good genes; Maternal effects; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CAPTIVE BREEDING; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATERNAL EFFECT; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; OOCYTE; OVIPARITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; GENETIC VARIATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; OVIPARITY; OVUM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 66149144776     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01746.x     Document Type: Article

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