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Assortative mating in Gastropoda: A meta-analysis
Biosystems Diversity, 2023 The term ‘assortative mating’ denotes situations when the choice of a mating partner is nonrandom and the phenotypes across mate pairs are correlated, either positively or negatively.
S. S. Kramarenko, A. S. Kramarenko
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Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2009 Por meio da utilização de um programa de acasalamento dirigido e de simulação de dados, foram avaliadas e comparadas estratégias alternativas de acasalamento para aumentar a probabilidade de produzir animais superiores e reduzir a variabilidade da ...
Haroldo Henrique de Rezende Neves +4 more
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Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2009 Desenvolveu-se um estudo de simulação estocástica com o objetivo de verificar as consequências do uso combinado de acasalamento dirigido e sêmen sexado em uma população de bovinos de corte sob seleção.
Haroldo Henrique de Rezende Neves +3 more
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The Effect of Assortative Mating on Wealth Inequality, why do the Rich Choose the Rich? [PDF]
Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2023 This paper unravels the effect of assortative mating on wealth inequality. In light of the reviewed literature, it is concluded that there is a significant effect of assortative mating on wealth inequality, it is mainly driven by similarity in background
Arabela ICHIM +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2011 The M and S molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s. have been considered incipient species for more than ten years, yet the mechanism underlying assortative mating of these incipient species has remained elusive.
Michelle R Sanford +5 more
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Evidence for differential assortative female preference in association with refugial isolation of rainbow skinks in Australia's tropical rainforests. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Divergence driven by female preference can give rise to pre-mating isolation more rapidly than post-mating isolation can evolve through the accumulation of allelic incompatibilities.
Gaynor Dolman
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Choosing mates based on the diet of your ancestors: replication of non-genetic assortative mating in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Assortative mating has been a focus of considerable research because of its potential to influence biodiversity at many scales. Sharon et al. (2010) discovered that an inbred strain of Drosophila melanogaster mated assortatively based on the diet of ...
Michael A. Najarro +3 more
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Journal of Family Research, 2010 This paper analyzes the determinants of assortative mating by ethnicity and education for individuals with an immigrant background in Sweden, focusing on the role of individual, marriage market and parental characteristics.
Aycan Çelikaksoy +2 more
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Genetic gain and inbreeding from simulation of different genomic mating schemes for pig improvement
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2023 Background Genomic selection involves choosing as parents those elite individuals with the higher genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV) to accelerate the speed of genetic improvement in domestic animals.
Fuping Zhao +6 more
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