Parasite diversity, patterns of MHC II variation and olfactory based mate choice in diverging three-spined stickleback ecotypes

How pathogens drive genetic diversity: MHC, mechanisms and misunderstandings

(2010) L. G. Spurgin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parasites may contribute to ‘magic trait’ evolution in the adaptive radiation of three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus (Gasterosteiformes: Gasterosteidae)

(2009) ANDREW D. C. MACCOLL   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

RSCA genotyping of MHC for high-throughput evolutionary studies in the model organism three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus

(2009) Tobias L Lenz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ecological speciation! Or the lack thereof?This Perspective is based on the author’s J.C. Stevenson Memorial Lecture delivered at the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research in Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 2008.

(2009) Andrew P. Hendry   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

PHENOTYPE-DEPENDENT NATIVE HABITAT PREFERENCE FACILITATES DIVERGENCE BETWEEN PARAPATRIC LAKE AND STREAM STICKLEBACK

(2009) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   EVOLUTION

VARIABLE PROGRESS TOWARD ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN PARAPATRY: STICKLEBACK ACROSS EIGHT LAKE-STREAM TRANSITIONS

(2009) Daniel Berner et al.   EVOLUTION

MHC-based mate choice combines good genes and maintenance of MHC polymorphism

(2009) C. EIZAGUIRRE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Costly major histocompatibility complex signals produced only by reproductively active males, but not females, must be validated by a 'maleness signal' in three-spined sticklebacks

(2009) M. Milinski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the Origin of Species by Natural and Sexual Selection

(2009) G. S. van Doorn et al.   SCIENCE

Speciation accelerated and stabilized by pleiotropic major histocompatibility complex immunogenes

(2008) Christophe Eizaguirre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Natural selection drives patterns of lake-stream divergence in stickleback foraging morphology

(2008) D. BERNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Contrasting patterns of variation in MHC loci in the Alpine newt

(2008) W. BABIK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Extensive polymorphism and geographical variation at a positively selected MHC class II B gene of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)

(2008) MIGUEL ALCAIDE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries

(2008) Armand M. Kuris et al.   NATURE

Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish

(2008) Ole Seehausen et al.   NATURE

Does intra-individual major histocompatibility complex diversity keep a golden mean?

(2008) B. Woelfing et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Lifetime reproductive success is maximized with optimal major histocompatibility complex diversity

(2008) M. Kalbe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Compatibility counts: MHC-associated mate choice in a wild promiscuous primate

(2007) N. Schwensow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES