Sexual selection enhances ability of offspring to cope with infection
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 07:50
in Biology & Nature
Offspring from female mice who mate with their preferred male are better able to cope with an experimental infection compared to those of females mated with non-preferred males, according to new results published today. The findings by scientists at the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology at the Vetmeduni Vienna have been published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.