female choice
Adaptive female choice for middle-aged mates in a lekking sandfly
... mate choice predict that females should prefer older males because they have proven survival ...reported female choice for older males, few have explicitly examined the ¢tness consequences of such a ...
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Female choice and variation in the major histocompatibility complex.
... Female choice can in fact reduce the observed proportions of homozygotes, maintain genetic polymorphism, influence mating-type frequencies and generate gametic disequ[r] ...
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Female choice by electric pulse duration: attractiveness of the males' communication signal assessed by female bulldog fish, Marcusenius pongolensis (Mormyridae, Teleostei)
... average female value) to 716· s, to eight female experimental subjects elicited approach, head butts and circling ...experimental female subjects we contrasted the shortest playback pulse with ...
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The roles of individual variation and female choice in round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) acoustic signalling
... that female choice was stronger on the basis of time spent rather than speaker of first choice may be suggestive that females will visit multiple male nests before choosing a ...
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Female choice in the red mason bee, Osmia rufa (L ) (Megachilidae)
... We used O. rufa reared at the University of Ulm in trap nests consisting of a wooden box (50cm ⫻ 20cm ⫻ 23cm), with 7 rows of 22 holes (diameter 6mm), on the roof of the University building. The population of O. rufa ...
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Bolund, Elisabeth (2009): Condition dependence and fitness consequences of sexual traits in zebra finches. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... through female choice (intersexual selection), but often they also function as signals of dominance in intrasexual ...through female choice, and most research interest has focused on the red ...
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An experimental test of condition-dependent male and female mate choice in zebra finches
... of female mate choice in zebra finches (for review see ...Testing female song preferences allows testing their mating preferences without male choice behavior as confound of ...understanding ...
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SELECTIVE MATING IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
... greater number of significant x2 values in the experiments on female “choice” than in those on male “choice.” Furthermore, the significant x2 values were much larger in[r] ...
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A proteomic study of sperm competition in mammals
... cryptic female choice, particularly in relation to specific mechanisms of sperm selection, can be challenging due to the difficulties in disentangling male versus female mediated effects (Birkhead ...
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Female mate choice in convict cichlids is transitive and consistent with a self-referent directional preference
... that female convict cichlids do not use male body size as an absolute criterion, but, instead, as a relative ...the female (λ = ...for female choice based on male size in convict cichlids ...
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Role of the iridescent eye in stickleback female mate choice
... with female choice (see Results), these ranges were: ...the female. Female interest in a given combination of parameters ...a female faced toward a video per ...mean female visit ...
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Quality of public information matters in mate-choice copying in female zebra finches
... mate- choice test, which lasted 2 × 20 min with a switch of stimulus males’ cages after 20 min to control for side ...of choice adjacent to the stimulus males (mate-choice zone; grey area in ...no ...
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Mechanisms and contexts of kin recognition in female house mice
... another. Female behaviour was recorded remotely to ...Stimulus female test order and female placement in the test arena were randomised but ...
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Personality assortative female mating preferences in a songbird
... All female subjects were first tested with random sets of 4 males for mating preferences, and all subjects were tested for neophobia within 1– 2 months thereafter (in zebra finches, neophobia has been shown to be ...
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Choice of Specialization among Female Clinical Medical Students of Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
... consenting female clinical medical students of Bayero University ...and choice of specialization among others was recorded on the questionnaire based on the available literature on choices of specialization ...
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Laparoscopic hysterectomy as the method of choice for hysterectomy in female-to-male gender dysphoric individuals
... Abstract The objective of this paper was to report on a large series of laparoscopic hysterectomy in female-to-male (FTM) transsexual patients. A retrospective study was carried out by the gender team of Ghent ...
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Influence of Role Models and Mentors on Female Graduate Students’ Choice of Science as a Career
... ficacy beliefs depended on social persuasions and vicarious experiences (Zel- din, Britner, & Pajares, 2007). Also drawing from Bandura’s work, Hackett and Betz (1981) noted that women lacked strong efficacy ...
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Host finding behaviour of female apple leaf curling midge, Dasineura mali Kieffer (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters [i e Master] of Applied Science in Plant Health at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... When given a choice between apple and pear foliage, female ALCM oviposited four times more eggs on apple than on pear.. However, when given no choice between plant species females ovipos[r] ...
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Nonindependent mate choice in humans
... and female) in a large aviary, and found that all but two of them formed ...mate choice copying to have evolved would be a male-biased sex ratio throughout this species‟ ...
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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CHOICE OF FAMILY SIZE AMONGST FEMALE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN UDUTH SOKOTO
... Only 42 (23.3%) of the respondents indicated that their educational background had contributed to the choice of their desired family size. One would have expected that educational background would have played a ...
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