The Evolution of Mating Preferences and Major Histocompatibility Complex Genes

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1999-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/303166PMID 29578757
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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