Mate Choice
Nonindependent mate choice in humans
... The zebra finch is a socially monogamous finch of the estrildine group, found in mainland Australia and some islands of eastern Indonesia 9 . These birds form life-long pair bonds, which are only dissolved when one of ...
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The evolutionary origins and consequences of variation in female mate choice preferences
... preferences. Environmentally determined preferences evolved through sensory bias (eg. preferences for conspicuous males) are known to play a role in the maintenance of male trait variation, and hence I explore whether or ...
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Alternative hypotheses linking the immune system and mate choice for good genes
... Given these complications, how should one proceed in testing these ideas ? The real world also undermines glib assertions of what constitutes a rigorous test of particular hypotheses, as many of the issues we have ...
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Determinants of reproductive status and mate choice in captive colonies of the naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber
... the mate choice of ...and mate choice? Finally, do reproductively active females outbreed or inbreed when given the choice? From the results of these experiments I hope to determine ...
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Mutual mate choice : when it pays both sexes to avoid inbreeding
... mutual mate choice for non-assortative ...their mate choice on different criteria and that choice occurs at different steps during the mating ...their choice towards the most ...
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The Major Histocompatibility Complex in Song Sparrows: Immunity, Signals, and Mate Choice
... and mate choice, and signals of ...social mate choice a good proxy for genetic mate ...quality, mate guarding, nest defence, and provisioning to offspring in the nest and during ...
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No kin discrimination in female mate choice of a parasitoid with complementary sex determination
... To investigate whether females discriminate against kin as mat- ing partners and whether they use familiarity (development in the same host) or genetic relatedness as cues, we performed a dual choice arena ...
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The male blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, uses both chromatic and achromatic cues during mate choice
... mate choice. By testing malesʼ innate color preferences in binary choice tests between photographs of red-clawed females and six variations of orange-clawed females, we examined both the chromatic ...
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Can simple songs express useful signals for mate choice?
... females in particular, we suggest that these criteria of inconspicuous visual signals (e.g., longer wing and tail lengths) and short, inconspicuous songs may be partially related to their nesting behavior. As a ground ...
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A reply to Nieberding and Holveck: beyond experimental design and proximate mechanisms - mate choice in the face of sexual conflict
... In 2008, our group published a study on old male mating advantage in B. anynana [3]. Subsequently, we were in- trigued by the factors affecting male mating success in this particular organism, which has prompted the ...
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Sexual selection: Symmetry, inbreeding and mate choice in Trinidadian guppies
... To avoid this confounding variable a second experiment was undertaken that standardised overall melanin area. Pairs o f males had very similar areas of melanin pigments but asymmetric males had spots in different ...
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The self reported importance of olfaction during human mate choice
... during mate evaluation, whereas men value physical ...during mate choice) its findings are consistent with research demonstrating superior olfactory abilities in women (see ...during mate ...
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The Major Histocompatibility (MH) Genes: Somatic Mutation and Mate Choice in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha)
... copulatory mate choice; however, the discovery of female promiscuity and polyandry indicated that mate choice also persists after copulation (Birkhead and Pizzari, ...
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Female mate choice in convict cichlids is transitive and consistent with a self-referent directional preference
... of choice, one key component of rationality, in a sexual ...that choice between partners might be intransitive ...the mate sampling strategies as it is less cognitively demanding than the comparative ...
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Parasite augmented mate choice and reduction in innate fear in rats infected by Toxoplasma gondii
... that mate choice is based on indirect benefits that hinge on the greater fitness manifested by a female’s offspring if she is mated with a preferred ...instance, mate choice evolves because ...
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An experimental test of condition-dependent male and female mate choice in zebra finches
... constrain choice, if low condition individuals cannot afford prolonged search efforts and/or face higher risk of ...mutual mate choice, the interaction between male and female condition should thus ...
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Quality of public information matters in mate-choice copying in female zebra finches
... 8 months, maximum: 46 months; males: mean age about 30 months, minimum: 8 months, maximum: 44 months) of wild zebra finches that were exported from Northern Victoria, Australia, in 1992 (Meyer T, personal communi- ...
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The role of ultraviolet wavelengths in the mate choice decisions of female three spined sticklebacks
... during mate choice we employed a simple two-choice technique that examined the time a female apportioned to the courtship display of two reproductively active ...ultraviolet mate- ...
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The Effect of Mate Choice on Offspring Phenotype and Performance in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha)
... to mate freely, provide opportunities for females to select their mates and males to fight over ...of mate choice on the phenotype of the offspring of these fish and compare it to ones that are bred ...
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Host shift induces changes in mate choice of the seed predator Acanthoscelides obtectus via altered chemical signalling
... female mate choice being driven by certain diet-derived male pheromones, which induce egg-laying on a specific host plant ...to mate with beetles of the same host line ...reduced mate ...
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