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Disassortative Mating

Disassortative Mating is a form of nonrandom mating in which individuals preferentially mate with partners who are phenotypically or genotypically dissimilar to themselves, particularly with respect to specific traits, thereby contrasting with assortative mating.

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MHC heterozygosity confers a selective advantage against multiple-strain infections

Dustin J. Penn, Kristy Damjanovich, Wayne K. Potts · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002 · 690 citations · Full text

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Kin Recognition and the Major Histocompatibility Complex: An Integrative Review

Jerram L. Brown, Amy Eklund · The American Naturalist · 1994 · 263 citations

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MHC–disassortative mating preferences reversed by cross–fostering

Dustin J. Penn, Wayne K. Potts · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1998 · 244 citations

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Alternative reproductive strategies in the white-throated sparrow: behavioral and genetic evidence

Elaina M. Tuttle · Behavioral Ecology · 2003 · 205 citations · Full text

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The role of infectious disease, inbreeding and mating preferences in maintaining MHC genetic diversity: an experimental test

Wayne K. Potts, C. Jo Manning, Edward K. Wakeland · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1994 · 146 citations

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Authors

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  1. JA
    Juan Arroyo

    Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

    4 publications · 161 citations

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  2. SC
    Spencer C. H. Barrett

    University of Toronto, Canada

    4 publications · 154 citations

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  3. WK
    Wayne K. Potts

    University of Utah, United States

    4 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. EM
    Elaina M. Tuttle

    Indiana State University, United States

    3 publications · 228 citations

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  5. VF
    Victoria Ferrero

    Universidade de Vigo, Spain

    3 publications · 108 citations

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Institutions

141

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    17 publications

    780 citations

  2. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    974 citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    196 citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    289 citations

  5. Universidad de Sevilla

    Seville, Spain

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    320 citations

  6. Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, Spain

    4 h-index

    17 publications

    490 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    151 citations

  8. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    318 citations

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  1. The American Naturalist

    AN · 6 publications · 386 citations

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  3. Behavioral Ecology

    6 publications · 333 citations

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  4. Molecular Ecology

    5 publications · 226 citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 5 publications · 927 citations

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