Costly major histocompatibility complex signals produced only by reproductively active males, but not females, must be validated by a 'maleness signal' in three-spined sticklebacks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1680, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Milinski, Manfred ^a   Griffiths, Siân W ^a,c   Reusch, Thorsten B H ^a,d   Boehm, Thomas ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Major histocompatibility complex; Mating decision; Olfaction; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATE CHOICE; OLFACTORY CUE; PEPTIDE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; TELEOST;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 76249107116     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1501     Document Type: Article

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