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Science 3 June 1988:
Vol. 240. no. 4857, pp. 1331 - 1332
DOI: 10.1126/science.3375818
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Science, Vol 240, Issue 4857, 1331-1332
Copyright © 1988 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Familial imprinting determines H-2 selective mating preferences

K Yamazaki, GK Beauchamp, D Kupniewski, J Bard, L Thomas, and EA Boyse

Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

Inbred male mice typically prefer to mate with females of a different, non-self H-2 haplotype. To determine whether this natural preference is irrevocable or results from familial imprinting, a test system was used which relied on previous observations that B6 males (H-2b) mate preferentially with congenic B6-H-2k rather than B6 females, and B6-H-2k males with B6 females. This preference was reversed in B6 males fostered by B6-H-2k parents and in B6-H-2k males fostered by B6 parents, preference in these cases favoring the same H-2 type. Thus, H-2 selective mating preference is acquired by imprinting on familial H-2 types.


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