Female partner preferences enhance offspring ability to survive an infection

BACKGROUND: It is often suggested that mate choice enhances offspring immune resistance to infectious diseases. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a study with wild-derived house mice (Mus musculus musculus) in which females were experimentally mated either with their preferred or non-preferred m...

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Autores principales: Raveh, Shirley, Sutalo, Sanja, Thonhauser, Kerstin E, Thoß, Michaela, Hettyey, Attila, Winkelser, Friederike, Penn, Dustin J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24450606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-14

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24450606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-14

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