ArticleBMC evolutionary biology2014
Female partner preferences enhance offspring ability to survive an infection.
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- Seeing-good-gene-based mate choice: From genes to behavioural preferences.The Journal of animal ecology · 2019Article
- Sexual selection favours good or bad genes for pathogen resistance depending on males' pathogen exposure.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- No evidence for MHC-based mate choice in wild giant pandas.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- The role of social cognition in parasite and pathogen avoidance.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Free mate choice does not influence reproductive success in humans.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- No speed dating please! Patterns of social preference in male and female house mice.Frontiers in zoology · 2017Article
- MHC-dependent mate choice is linked to a trace-amine-associated receptor gene in a mammal.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- No evidence for female discrimination against male house mice carrying a selfish genetic element.Current zoology · 2016Article
- Does multiple paternity influence offspring disease resistance?Journal of evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Health, Anticipated Partner Infidelity, and Jealousy in Men and Women.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior · 2015Article
- Integrating evolution in the management of captive zoo populations.Evolutionary applications · 2015Article
- Fitness Benefits of Mate Choice for Compatibility in a Socially Monogamous Species.PLoS biology · 2015Article
- Female social preference for males that have evolved via monogamy: evidence of a trade-off between pre- and post-copulatory sexually selected traits?Biology letters · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt 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 male, and their offspring were infected with a mouse pathogen, Salmonella enterica (serovar Typhimurium).
resultsWe found that offspring sired by preferred males were significantly more likely to survive the experimental infection compared to those sired by non-preferred males. We found no significant differences in the pathogen clearance or infection dynamics between the infected mice, suggesting that offspring from preferred males were better able to cope with infection and had improved tolerance rather than immune resistance.
conclusionOur results provide the first direct experimental evidence within a single study that partner preferences enhance offspring resistance to infectious diseases.
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