Odour preferred males led to a higher offspring number in the common vole
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/24:43908310
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00406-6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00406-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00406-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s42991-024-00406-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Odour preferred males led to a higher offspring number in the common vole
Original language description
Very recently, an interesting phenomenon was described in the common vole, vole parents with similar locomotor ability produced significantly larger litters. Positive assortative mating is a tendency to prefer individuals with similar phenotypes. We tested whether this also applies to smell similarity. Odour preference was tested in a T-maze, where each female was presented with two male odours, i.e. shavings together with feces and urine from home boxes. After female preference was established, the female was either paired with a preferred male (chosen) or paired with a non-preferred male (opposite choice). For analysis of the relationship to odour preference, genotyping of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class II DRB was done using amplicon sequencing. In the set of 45 individuals from two populations, we recovered 38 nucleotide haplotypes (alleles). Similarity of alleles in parent pairs according to the indexes of Sorensen-Dice (S-D) and Jaccard were calculated. Values of these indexes in parental pairs with preferred males were significantly higher (more similar) than in not preferred. The number of offspring in parental pairs with preferred males were significantly higher than in not preferred males. However, there is no correlation between the mentioned indexes and the number of offspring. The relationship between the success of reproduction and alleles is not clear-cut, this may be influenced by the measure of similarity we used, or by something that we could not detect.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Mammalian Biology
ISSN
1616-5047
e-ISSN
1618-1476
Volume of the periodical
104
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
287-298
UT code for WoS article
001191038800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85188659503