Mate choice in a promiscuous poison frog. [PDF]
Ethology, 2022 In many animal species, members of one sex, most often females, exhibit a strong preference for mating partners with particular traits or resources. However, when females sequentially mate with multiple partners, strategies underlying female choice are ...
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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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Mutual mate choice : when it pays both sexes to avoid inbreeding [PDF]
, 2008 Theoretical models of sexual selection predict that both males and females of many species should benefit by selecting their mating partners. However, empirical evidence testing and validating this prediction is scarce.
Rivault, Colette +8 more
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Audience effects in the Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana)-prudent male mate choice in response to perceived sperm competition risk? [PDF]
, 2009 Background Multidirectional interactions in social (or communication) networks can have a profound effect on mate choice behavior. For example, Poecilia mexicana males show weaker expression of mating preferences when being observed by an audience male ...
Tiedemann, Ralph +20 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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Runaway sexual selection without genetic correlations : social environments and flexible mate choice initiate and enhance the Fisher process [PDF]
, 2012 Female mating preferences are often flexible, reflecting the social environment in which they are expressed. Associated indirect genetic effects (IGEs) can affect the rate and direction of evolutionary change, but sexual selection models do not capture ...
Moore, Allen J. +3 more
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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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