Data from: Ecology can inform genetics: disassortative mating contributes to MHC polymorphism in Leach’s storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)

• Main Authors: Hoover, Brian, Alcaide, Miguel, Jennings, Sarah, Sin, Simon Yung Wa, Edwards, Scott V., Nevitt, Gabrielle A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: seabirds; mate choice; Major Histocompatibility Complex; MHC-disassortative mating; Sexual Selection; Canada; Portage Island; North Atlantic; Oceanodroma leucorhoa
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.184107; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5g76b10

Studies of MHC-based mate choice in wild populations generally test hypotheses by assuming female choice and male-male competition, whether or not mate choice dynamics have been previously determined for the species under study. Here we examined mate choice patterns in a small burrow-nesting seabird...