Living longer: Variability in infection-fighting genes can be a boon for male survival
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 11:31
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have found that male Alpine chamois heterozygous at a particular immune gene locus (i.e. who possess two different forms of that gene) survive significantly longer than homozygous individuals (i.e. those with two identical copies of the gene) but they found no such effect for female chamois.