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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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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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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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An indirect cue of predation risk counteracts female preference for conspecifics in a naturally hybridizing fish Xiphophorus birchmanni. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Mate choice is context dependent, but the importance of current context to interspecific mating and hybridization is largely unexplored. An important influence on mate choice is predation risk.
Pamela M Willis +2 more
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Pigmentation and mate choice in Drosophila [PDF]
Nature, 2002 Many species of the fruitfly Drosophila are either sexually dimorphic for abdominal pigmentation (the posterior segments in males are black and those of females have thin dark stripes) or sexually monomorphic for this pigmentation (both sexes show striping). Kopp et al.
Anna, Llopart +2 more
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Female rose bitterling prefer MHC-dissimilar males : experimental evidence [PDF]
, 2012 The role of genetic benefits in female mate choice remains a controversial aspect of sexual selection theory. In contrast to “good allele” models of sexual selection, “compatible allele” models of mate choice predict that females prefer mates with ...
Bryja, Pepa +15 more
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Biology, 2018 Animals often use public information for mate-choice decisions by observing conspecifics as they choose their mates and then copying this witnessed decision.
Klaudia Witte +3 more
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Evolution of human mate choice [PDF]
Journal of Sex Research, 2004 This article provides a review of evolutionary theory and empirical research on mate choices in nonhuman species and uses it as a frame for understanding the how and why of human mate choices. The basic principle is that the preferred mate choices and attendant social cognitions and behaviors of both women and men, and those of other species, have ...
David C, Geary +2 more
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Casanovas are liars : behavioral syndromes, sperm competition risk, and the evolution of deceptive male mating behavior in live-bearing fishes [version 2; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
, 2013 Male reproductive biology can by characterized through competition over mates as well as mate choice. Multiple mating and male mate choice copying, especially in internally fertilizing species, set the stage for increased sperm competition, i.e., sperm ...
Geupel, Holger +11 more
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Coevolution of male and female mate choice can destabilize reproductive isolation
Nature Communications, 2019 Models of mate choice have mainly focused on the implications of female mate choice for reproductive isolation. Here, Aubier et al. develop a population genetic model of coevolution between female and male mate choice, which can lead the population to ...
Thomas G. Aubier +2 more
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