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Counting on immunity

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Certain variable immune proteins affect an animal's choice of mate. In some species, females pick males with proteins as dissimilar as possible to their own. Studies of sticklebacks now reveal another mechanism.

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Figure 1: Sex and the single stickleback.

FABIAN HERDER/JOACHIM FROMMEN

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    Theo C. M. Bakker & Marc Zbinden

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Bakker, T., Zbinden, M. Counting on immunity. Nature 414, 262–263 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35104729

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