Mate Choice, Sex Roles and Sexual Cognition in Vertebrates: Mate Choice Turns Cognition or Cognition Turns Mate Choice? [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The idea of “smart is sexy,” meaning superior cognition provides competitive benefits in mate choice and, therefore, evolutionary advantages in terms of reproductive fitness, is both exciting and captivating. Cognitively flexible individuals perceive and
Theodora Fuss
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Financial Status of Model, Target, and Observer Modulates Mate Choice Copying and the Mediating Effect of Personality [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study investigates the phenomenon of mate choice copying, wherein an individual (the observer) utilizes the assessments of peers of the same sex (the models) regarding a potential partner of the opposite sex (the target), thereby emulating the mate ...
Guomei Zhou, Shaxiao Ma, Di Wu
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Sex Differences in Mate Choice Preference Characteristics of Aequidens rivulatus [PDF]
Animals, 2022 The mating roles of males and females, to a certain extent, are dynamic and variable. Several factors influence the mate choice process. Nonetheless, the main preference features have not yet been fully understood in Aequidens rivulatus.
Haixia Li +6 more
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Genetic Variation in Male Mate Choice for Large Females in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMales in many species show courtship and mating preferences for certain females over others when given the choice. One of the most common targets of male mate choice in insects is female body size, with males preferring to court and mate with larger ...
Grace S. Freed +4 more
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Neural mechanisms involved in female mate choice in invertebrates [PDF]
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 Mate choice is a critical decision with direct implications for fitness. Although it has been recognized for over 150 years, our understanding of its underlying mechanisms is still limited.
Sagrario Cordero-Molina +3 more
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Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice [PDF]
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022 Mate choice is a potent generator of diversity and a fundamental pillar for sexual selection and evolution. Mate choice is a multistage affair, where complex sensory information and elaborate actions are used to identify, scrutinize, and evaluate ...
Constanze Lenschow +2 more
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Designing mate choice experiments
Biological Reviews, 2020 ABSTRACTThe important role that mate choice plays in the lives of animals is matched by the large and active research field dedicated to studying it. Researchers work on a wide range of species and behaviours, and so the experimental approaches used to measure animal mate choice are highly variable.
Liam R Dougherty
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No Evidence That the Phoretic Mite Poecilochirus carabi Influences Mate Choice or Fitness in the Host Burying Beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMate choice is a fundamental aspect of sexual selection where the “chooser” chooses a “courter” by assessing a variety of traits that communicate potential fitness.
Brendan Lan +4 more
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Mate Choice, Sex Roles and Sexual Cognition: Neuronal Prerequisites Supporting Cognitive Mate Choice
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Across taxa, mate choice is a highly selective process involving both intra- and intersexual selection processes aiming to pass on one’s genes, making mate choice a pivotal tool of sexual selection.
Theodora Fuss
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Variation in male mate choice in Drosophila melanogaster. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Male mate choice has been reported in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, even though males of this species were previously thought to maximise their fitness by mating with all available females.
Dominic A Edward, Tracey Chapman
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