Cryptic female choice favours sperm from major histocompatibility complex-dissimilar males

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1769, 2013, Pages

  Løvlie, Hanne ^a,b,d   Gillingham, Mark A F ^a   Worley, Kirsty ^a,c   Pizzari, Tommaso ^a   Richardson, David S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genetic relatedness; Major histocompatibility complex; Postcopulatory sexual selection; Sperm choice

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; CRYPSIS; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MATE CHOICE; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYANDRY; POLYMORPHISM; RAPTOR; RELATEDNESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM;

ANIMAL; CHICKEN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84897359944     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1296     Document Type: Article

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