Female partner preferences enhance offspring ability to survive an infection

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Raveh, Shirley ^a,b   Sutalo, Sanja ^a   Thonhauser, Kerstin E ^a   Thoß, Michaela ^a   Hettyey, Attila ^a,c   Winkelser, Friederike ^a   Penn, Dustin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Mus musculus musculus; Partner preference; Pathogen clearance; Pathogen mediated sexual selection; Salmonella; Sexual selection; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; ARTICLE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PEDIGREE; PHYSIOLOGY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MICE; PEDIGREE; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892748312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-14     Document Type: Article

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