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Male traits influence odour‐based mate choice in the three‐spined stickleback
Author(s) -
Häberli M. A.,
Aeschlimann P. B.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2004.00338.x
Subject(s) - gasterosteus , biology , three spined stickleback , stickleback , nest (protein structural motif) , mate choice , zoology , major histocompatibility complex , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , genetics , fishery , mating , gene , biochemistry
Female three‐spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus preferred odour stemming from males with a nest over ‘neutral’ water and odour from males without any nest in an experimental flow channel. Males without any nest were preferred over females when either having the same major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class lI genotype or being unattractive in respect to MHC class II alleles.