Female sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus use self-reference to optimize MHC allele number during mate selection

By P. Aeschlimann, M. Häberli, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, T. Boehm, M. Milinski. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2003

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Subfields: Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology

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Environment-dependent use of mate choice cues in sticklebacks (2009, unknown): “Olfactory cues are used to optimize offspring major histocompatibility complex allele number (Reusch et al. 2001; Aeschlimann et al. 2003) and increase immunocompetence (Milinski et al.”
Parasite diversity, patterns of MHC II variation and olfactory based mate choice in diverging three-spined stickleback ecotypes (2011, methodology): “…female was placed in the choice chamber of a flow channel that was fed by two water columns, to each of which stimulus water (1L during 600 s) was continuously added, under conditions of laminar flow as described previously (Reusch et al. 2001b; Aeschlimann et al. 2003; Milinski et al. 2005).”
The Evolution of Polyandry: Sperm Competition, Sperm Selection, and Offspring Viability (2005, background): “Female sticklebacks appear capable of ensuring an optimal number of alleles for their offspring by choosing males with a number of MHC class-IIB alleles that complements their own (Aeschlimann et al. 2003, Reusch et al. 2001).”
Sneaking from a female perspective (2007, background): “For example, Aeschlimann et al. (2003) showed that female three-spined sticklebacks chose males with the most complementary MHC profile to their own.”
Olfactory mate recognition in a sympatric species pair of three-spined sticklebacks (2006, methodology): “Compelling evidence that odor is involved in mate choice comes from threespined sticklebacks in Germany: gravid females are able to discriminate between conspecific males with different numbers and diversities of alleles at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) loci by odor alone (Reusch et al.”
Intraspecific food competition in fishes (2006, background): “Fish possess the ability to recognize related individuals (see Ward and Hart 2003) probably by MHC-based recognition (Olsen et al. 1998, 2002) yet information on relatedness seems to be used mainly in mate choice by many fishes (Landry et al. 2001; Aeschlimann et al. 2003; Milinski 2003).”
Multimodal mixed messages: the use of multiple cues allows greater accuracy in social recognition and predator detection decisions in the mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki (2010, unknown): “2007), mate choice (Aeschlimann et al. 2003), and migration (Hasler and Cooper 1976).”
Individual recognition by scent (2004, background): “Indeed, subsequent studies have revealed that MHC type influences odours in a wide range of vertebrates (e.g. fish: Aeschlimann et al. 2003, Olsen et al. 2002; lizards: Olsson et al. 2003; birds: Zelano & Edwards 2002; humans: Porter & Moore 1981, Wedekind et al. 1995, Jacob et al. 2002).”
The Developmental, Physiological, Neural, and Genetical Causes and Consequences of Frequency-Dependent Selection in the Wild (2006, background): “Mating patterns in seminatural populations of mice influenced by MHC genotype.”