No evidence for the effect of MHC on male mating success in the brown bear.

No evidence for the effect of MHC on male mating success in the brown bear.

Mate choice is thought to contribute to the maintenance of the spectacularly high polymorphism of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes, along with balancing selection from parasites, but the relative contribution of the former mechanism is debated. Here, we investigated the association b...

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Main Authors: Katarzyna Kuduk, Wieslaw Babik, Eva Bellemain, Alice Valentini, Andreas Zedrosser, Pierre Taberlet, Jonas Kindberg, Jon E Swenson, Jacek Radwan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113414

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