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The evolution of mate choice and mating biases [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2003 We review the current status of three well-established models (direct benefits, indirect benefits and sensory drive) and one newcomer (antagonistic chase-away) of the evolution of mate choice and the biases that are expressed during choice. We highlight the differences and commonalities in the underlying genetics and evolutionary dynamics of these ...
Kokko, Hanna +3 more
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Personality differentially affects individual mate choice decisions in female and male Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Consistent individual differences in behavioral tendencies (animal personality) can affect individual mate choice decisions. We asked whether personality traits affect male and female mate choice decisions similarly and whether potential personality ...
Bo-Jian Chen +5 more
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Mate Choice Drives Evolutionary Stability in a Hybrid Complex. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Previous studies have shown that assortative mating acts as a driver of speciation by countering hybridization between two populations of the same species (pre-zygotic isolation) or through mate choice among the hybrids (hybrid speciation).
Miguel Morgado-Santos +3 more
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Quantifying male and female pheromone-based mate choice in Caenorhabditis nematodes using a novel microfluidic technique. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Pheromone cues are an important component of intersexual communication, particularly in regards to mate choice. Caenorhabditis nematodes predominant rely on pheromone production for mate finding and mate choice.
Flora Borne +2 more
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Same-sex gaze attraction influences mate-choice copying in humans. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Mate-choice copying occurs when animals rely on the mating choices of others to inform their own mating decisions. The proximate mechanisms underlying mate-choice copying remain unknown.
Jessica L Yorzinski, Michael L Platt
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, 1998 Evidence from studies in rodents suggests that mate selection is influenced by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotypes, with preferences for dissimilar partners. We initiated studies to determine whether avoidance of a mate with the same HLA haplotype as one’s own might be occurring in the Hutterites, a reproductive isolate of European ...
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Evolutionary Psychology, 2015 Information about prospective mates is typically acquired in a sequential and cumulative fashion. The aim of this study was to examine whether a reject-the-worst strategy is more efficient than an accept-the-best strategy for women in response to serial ...
Melanie Li-Wen Long, Anne Campbell
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Evolutionary Psychology, 2015 Studies of humans and non-human animals indicate that females tend to change the likelihood of choosing a potential mate based on the decisions of other females; this is known as mate-choice copying.
Yan Deng, Yong Zheng
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Although mate choice is expected to favor partners with advantageous genetic properties, the relative importance of genome‐wide characteristics, such as overall heterozygosity or kinship, versus specific loci, is unknown.
Rachel M. Petersen +3 more
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Mate Choice and the Origin of Menopause
PLoS Computational Biology, 2013 Human menopause is an unsolved evolutionary puzzle, and relationships among the factors that produced it remain understood poorly. Classic theory, involving a one-sex (female) model of human demography, suggests that genes imparting deleterious effects on post-reproductive survival will accumulate.
Richard A Morton +2 more
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