Table 1. Summary of previous studies testing associations between MHC
diversity and both fitness and phenotypic traits. NGS is short for Next
Generation Sequencing.
Note: MHC-fitness association and MHC-trait association were consistent*
or inconsistent‡
Table 2. Number of records of phenotypic traits used in our study.
Sample sizes for adult traits are shown as N records or N records / N
individuals. Years of measurement are shown in brackets.