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15th International & 14th European Congress of Endocrinology

Plenary Lectures

Mating, sex and the immune system in humans and fish

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Mating, sex and the immune system in humans and fish.

Milinski M.

Sexual reproduction is still an evolutionary puzzle. A female “throws away” half of her genes during meiosis, and fills up what she lost with genes from a male. To compensate for this two-fold cost of efficiency selective mate choice has to achieve at least a two-fold genetic benefit in each generation so that sexual reproduction is not lost.Sexual selection has been proposed as one mechanism to explain the maintenance of high allelic diver...