ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017
Major histocompatibility complex-linked social signalling affects female fertility.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Prior mating without fertilization increases subsequent litter size in mice.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Genetic Links between Reproductive Traits and Amino Acid Pairwise Distances of Swine Leukocyte Antigen Alleles among Mating Partners in Microminipigs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- High-Resolution Genotyping of Expressed Equine MHC Reveals a Highly Complex MHC Structure.Genes · 2023Article
- Mate genetic similarity affects mating behaviour but not maternal investment in mice.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Within-trio tests provide little support for post-copulatory selection on major histocompatibility complex haplotypes in a free-living population.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- No evidence for a relationship between MHC heterozygosity and life history strategy in a sample of North American undergraduates.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Genetic variation at MHC class II loci influences both olfactory signals and scent discrimination in ring-tailed lemurs.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- A predicted interaction between odour pleasantness and intensity provides evidence for major histocompatibility complex social signalling in women.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Cycle-specific female preferences for visual and non-visual cues in the horse (Equus caballus).PloS one · 2018Article
- Major histocompatibility complex-linked social signalling affects female fertility.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) have been shown to influence social signalling and mate preferences in many species, including humans. First observations suggest that MHC signalling may also affect female fertility. To test this hypothesis, we exposed 191 female horses (
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