Jamie C. Winternitz

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.

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.

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.