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

BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest to determine the relative importance of non-additive genetic benefits as opposed to additive ones for the evolution of mating preferences and maintenance of genetic variation in sexual ornaments. The 'good-genes-as-heterozygosity' hypothesis predict...

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Autores principales: Ilmonen, Petteri, Stundner, Gloria, Thoß, Michaela, Penn, Dustin J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19445699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-104