The scent of genetic compatibility: Sexual selection and the major histocompatibility complex

By D. Penn. 2002

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sensory Systems

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The Evolution of Polyandry: Sperm Competition, Sperm Selection, and Offspring Viability (2005, background): “The MHC is involved in immune function, resistance to parasitic infection, and the production of odors that are important in individual recognition and mate choice (Penn 2002).”
BIRD ODORS AND OTHER CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES: A DEFENSE MECHANISM OR OVERLOOKED MODE OF INTRASPECIFIC COMMUNICATION? (2007, background): “…suggest that compounds could provide conspecifics with cues regarding an individual’s health or quality, such as an infi rm or contagious condition, hormonal state, social status, or genotype, as in mammals (e.g., Penn and Pott s 1998, Penn 2002, Brennan and Kendrick 2006; review in Hagelin 2007).”
Individual recognition by scent (2004, background): “Studies using functional tests of mate choice or kin recognition have confirmed that MHC-associated odours appear to play a role in the assessment of close genetic relatedness (reviewed by Penn & Potts 1999, Penn 2002).”
MHC studies in nonmodel vertebrates: what have we learned about natural selection in 15 years? (2003, background): “There are currently two leading explanations to account for the development of reproductive mechanisms favouring MHC polymorphism (Penn, 2002).”
Not only mate choice matters: fitness consequences of social partner choice in female house mice (2008, background): “In house mice, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) characteristics, specifically MHC dissimilarity, are important for mate choice (Drickamer et al. 2000; Penn 2002; Gowaty et al. 2003).”
Impact of infection on mate choice (2014, background): “Indeed, MHCdependent mating choice, although with no direct link to pathogens, can have an effect on the MHC heterozygosity of progeny, which is suspected to confer resistance to infectious diseases (Penn, 2002; Penn, Damjanovich, & Potts, 2002).”
Major urinary protein (MUP) profiles show dynamic changes rather than individual ‘barcode’ signatures (2015, background): “…and mating preferences that enhance genetic compatibility (increasing offspring MHC heterozygosity and avoiding inbreeding) (Penn and Potts, 1999; Penn, 2002; Milinski, 2006; Roberts, 2009; Thoß et al., 2011), thereby providing significant fitness benefits (Meagher et al., 2000; Ilmonen et al.,…”
More than friends? Behavioural and genetic aspects of heterosexual associations in wild chacma baboons (2010, background): “Body odour is influenced by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) (reviewed by Penn 2002; see also Willse et al. 2006; Kwak et al. 2008), a highly polymorphic genetic system which plays a crucial role in vertebrate immunity by recognising and presenting pathogens to immunocompetent cells.”
The importance of immune gene variability (MHC) in evolutionary ecology and conservation (2005, background): “Whereas there is some support for this selection mechanism among experimental infection studies using mainly congenic mice it is clearly not sufficient to maintain high MHC variability [68,70,71].”
Kin recognition: an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory (2010, background): “MHC-dependent mating preferences may function to increase or optimise offspring MHC-heterozygosity (e.g., Penn and Potts 1998, Penn et al. 2002), avoid inbreeding, or both (Penn 2002).”
How pathogens drive genetic diversity: MHC, mechanisms and misunderstandings (2010, background): “A number of experimental infection studies with MHC congenic mice have shown that heterozygote advantage, through both dominance and overdominance, can operate to combat pathogenic infection (reviewed in Penn 2002).”
Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men and women (2003, background): “This interpretation also applies to what some investigators would label compatible genes ( Penn, 2002; Zeh and Zeh, 2001).”
Message ‘scent’: lemurs detect the genetic relatedness and quality of conspecifics via olfactory cues (2010, methodology): “…a proxy ‘mate choice’ paradigm to assess the female’s proclivity for males of varying genetic characteristics (Wedekind et al. 1995; Penn & Potts 1999; Penn 2002; Olsson et al. 2003; Milinski et al. 2005; Parrott et al. 2007; Ilmonen et al. 2009), without addressing the male’s genetically informed…”