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A Model for the Evolution of Assortative Mating [PDF]
American Naturalist, 2008 Abstract: Many animals and plants show a correlation between the traits of the individuals in the mating pair, implying assortative mating. Given the ubiquity of assortative mating in nature, why and how it has evolved remain open questions. Here we attempt to answer these questions in those cases where the trait under assortment is the same in males ...
Mark Kirkpatrick, N H Barton
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Assortative mating on blood type: Evidence from one million Chinese pregnancies [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Hanzhe Zhang, Jingyuan Wang, Ke Tang
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Assortative Mating in Animals [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2013 Assortative mating occurs when there is a correlation (positive or negative) between male and female phenotypes or genotypes across mated pairs. To determine the typical strength and direction of assortative mating in animals, we carried out a meta-analysis of published measures of assortative mating for a variety of phenotypic and genotypic traits in ...
Jiang, Yuexin X. +2 more
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Assortative mating for obesity [PDF]
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007 Assortative mating is the nonrandom mating of individuals with respect to phenotype and cultural factors. Previous studies of assortative mating for obesity have indicated that it may have contributed to the obesity epidemic. However, those studies all used body mass index or skinfold thicknesses to measure obesity and did not always account for ...
John R, Speakman +3 more
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Assortative Mating and the Adaptive Landscape [PDF]
Evolution, 1994 The ability of a population to shift from one adaptive peak to another was examined for a two-locus model with different degrees of assortative mating, selection, and linkage. As expected, if the proportion of the population that mates assortatively increases, so does its ability to shift to a new peak.
Williams, SM, Sarkar, S
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Conditioning on parental mating types can reduce necessary assumptions for Mendelian randomization
Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Mendelian randomization (MR) has become a common tool used in epidemiological studies. However, when confounding variables are correlated with the instrumental variable (in this case, a genetic/variant/marker), the estimation can remain biased even with ...
Keisuke Ejima +8 more
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Assortative Mating for Emotional Intelligence [PDF]
Current Psychology, 2016 Assortative mating has been studied on a broad range of variables, including intelligence and personality traits. In the present study we analysed the effect of assortative mating for ability emotional intelligence (EI) on a sample of heterosexual couples (N = 382), including dating and married couples. Correlation analyses revealed moderate similarity
Śmieja-Nęcka, Magdalena +1 more
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Can preference for oviposition sites initiate reproductive isolation in Callosobruchus maculatus? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Theory has identified a variety of evolutionary processes that may lead to speciation. Our study includes selection experiments using different host plants and test key predictions concerning models of speciation based on host plant choice, such as the ...
Emma Rova, Mats Björklund
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Assortative Mating on Ancestry-Variant Traits in Admixed Latin American Populations
Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 Assortative mating is a universal feature of human societies, and individuals from ethnically diverse populations are known to mate assortatively based on similarities in genetic ancestry. However, little is currently known regarding the exact phenotypic
Emily T. Norris +17 more
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The genetic correlation between height and IQ: shared genes or assortative mating? [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 Traits that are attractive to the opposite sex are often positively correlated when scaled such that scores increase with attractiveness, and this correlation typically has a genetic component.
Matthew C Keller +7 more
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