Females prefer the scent of outbred males: Good-genes-as-heterozygosity?

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ilmonen, Petteri ^a   Stundner, Gloria ^a   Tho, Michaela ^a   Penn, Dustin J ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OUTBRED STRAIN; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MATE CHOICE;

MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS MUSCULUS; SALMONELLA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MICE; ODORS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 67649562839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-104     Document Type: Article

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