Solomon Kyambulima

Banded mongooses discriminate relatedness and MHC diversity in unfamiliar conspecifics

This study shows banded mongooses use odor cues to assess MHC diversity and genetic relatedness in unfamiliar conspecifics, showing more interest in less MHC diverse and less related individuals.

Sex-dependent influence of major histocompatibility complex diversity on fitness in a social mammal

The paper examines how MHC diversity affects fitness differently in male and female banded mongooses, finding higher diversity increases male fitness but decreases female fitness.

Characterization of both major histocompatibility complex classes in a wild social mammal: the banded mongoose

This study characterizes MHC class I and II diversity in banded mongooses using high-throughput sequencing, finding higher allelic diversity in MHC-I and evidence of selection acting differently on exons 2 and 3.