Do Opposites Attract? Educational Assortative Mating and Dynamics of Wage Homogamy in Switzerland, 1992–2014 [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss Labour Force Survey and the Swiss Household Panel.
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Assortative mating among Lake Malawi cichlid fish populations is not simply predictable from male nuptial colour [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Research on the evolution of reproductive isolation in African cichlid fishes has largely focussed on the role of male colours and female mate choice. Here, we tested predictions from the hypothesis that allopatric divergence in male colour is
Taylor Martin I +6 more
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Assortative mating biases marker-based heritability estimators [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Methods for estimating heritability, the fraction of variance attributable to genetic factors, assume random mating. Here, the authors show that under assortative mating, when mate choice reflects phenotypic similarity, these methods produce ...
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Modeling assortative mating and genetic similarities between partners, siblings, and in-laws [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Assortative mating could violate the assumption of random mating used in many genetic studies. Here, the authors study more than 25,000 Norwegian families to find genetic similarity between partners, siblings, and in-laws in genetic factors related to ...
Fartein Ask Torvik +10 more
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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 Yao Hou, Jingyuan Wang
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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 ...
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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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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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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 By Diet In A Phenotypically Unimodal But Ecologically Variable Population Of Stickleback [PDF]
, 2008 Speciation with gene flow may be driven by a combination of positive assortative mating and disruptive selection, particularly if selection and assortative mating act on the same trait, eliminating recombination between ecotype and mating type ...
Bolnick, Daniel I., Snowberg, Lisa K.
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