Female mate choice
Role of the iridescent eye in stickleback female mate choice
... In this study, we combined reflectance spectra of sticklebacks from different photic regimes with light measurements from the SUMMARY Many vertebrates exhibit prominent body colours that are used in courtship and ...
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The evolutionary origins and consequences of variation in female mate choice preferences
... DEPENDENT MATE CHOICE: A STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH Abstract We study how changing female condition during the mating season and condition-dependent search costs impact female ...
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CiteSeerX — How is female mate choice affected by male competition
... and female mate choice belie the fact that their interaction remains poorly ...the choice process, opinions scattered throughout the sexual selection literature seem unnecessarily ...on ...
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Male sex pheromone release and female mate choice in a butterfly
... the female during which he everts his hairpencils and douses In butterflies female mate choice is influenced by both visual and olfactory cues, the latter of which are important at close ...
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Coevolution of male and female mate choice can destabilize reproductive isolation
... and female mate choice occur when the preferences of both sexes are based 357 on the same phenotypic trait under disruptive ...of mate choice in the context of reproductive isolation ...
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No kin discrimination in female mate choice of a parasitoid with complementary sex determination
... of female discrimination against genetically related males or against males emerged from related ...in female mate choice, be it relying on CHCs or a dif- ferent class of semiochemicals ...in ...
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An experimental test of condition-dependent male and female mate choice in zebra finches
... and female fitness depends on the combined parental ...constrain choice, if low condition individuals cannot afford prolonged search efforts and/or face higher risk of ...mutual mate choice, ...
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Female mate choice in convict cichlids is transitive and consistent with a self-referent directional preference
... It is sufficient to assume that they used a self-referent evaluation based on their own size: females preferred male about one third larger than themselves. Such a decision rule has important implications for the ...
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Does Male Sexual Experience Influence Female Mate Choice and Reproduction in the Melon Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)?
... on female fitness, particularly if prior copulations deplete stores of sperm and/or accessory gland ...on female lifespan and ...that female survival and reproduction were unaffected by male mating ...
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Social and environmental influences on mate attraction, mate choice and territorial defence
... study female mate choice and male courtship ...a mate. This mate-searching behaviour induces the males in the colony to cluster together in small groups and each wave their one, greatly ...
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Age Based female mate preference in phorticella striata
... by female mate choice has received much attention by researchers which emphasizes on the evolution and maintenance of mating preferences for sexual ...by female to select the potential ...
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Mutual Mate Choice Drives the Desirability of Altruism in Relationships
... Farrelly, D. (2011). Cooperation as a signal of genetic or phenotypic quality in female mate choice? Evidence from preferences across the menstrual cycle. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 406–30. ...
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Can simple songs express useful signals for mate choice?
... Conclusions: Female mate choice criteria in this bird include both visual signals and song characteristics. Our study supports the hypothesis that females may judge male quality from quite subtle ...
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Evidence of Male Mate Choice for Female Age in Drosophila Nasuta
... with female fecundity [2-3], while in others, mate assessment may occur through display traits such as coloration, pheromones, or ornamental and morphological features ...male choice suggest that ...
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Quality of public information matters in mate-choice copying in female zebra finches
... the mate-choice copy- ing experiments in Japanese quail by White and Galef [16] where the male was able to court the female but not to copulate with her, and also with those in zebra finches by Kniel ...
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The role of ultraviolet wavelengths in the mate choice decisions of female three spined sticklebacks
... Experiment 2 – ultraviolet perception and shoaling behaviour Exp. 2 examined whether ultraviolet wavelengths are used in the visually mediated shoaling decisions of the three-spined stickleback. This experiment was ...
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Mate choice among sympatric fur seals: female preference for conphenotypic males
... of mate choice, this is not the only trait used by females to select ...territory, mate choice in fur seals may be advantageous because it leads to mating with a male with (1) better ...
Nonindependent mate choice in humans
... for female assertiveness, sociability and social intelligence, namely that these traits would have correlated positively with male partner mate value, whereas a negative correlation would perhaps hold ...
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Evolution of Human Mate Choice
... their mate choice criteria (Geary, 2000; Kenrick et ...long-term mate and less concerned about her cultural success or her potential for cultural success (Buss, 1989; Li et ...
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Mate choice from Avicenna’s perspective
... answer to the question that what points have been made by Avicenna concerning mate choice? To answer this, a reference has been made to his works through a descriptive-analytic method. 1.1. A brief ...
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