Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur. It is characterized by a "selective response by animals to particular stimuli"...

mate, females exhibit more mate choice selectivity than males, as is seen in nature. Relative to most other animals however, female and male mating strategies...

Mate-choice copying, or non-independent mate choice, occurs when an individual of an animal species copies another individual's mate choice. In other...

number of females a male can mate with. This introduces the ability for selection to favor male mate choice. Male mate choice is rarely studied or observed...

a similar mate value, to avoid rejection. Specifically, one could infer that one's own mate value has a direct impact upon partner choice through the...

of most species surviving only a few matings and consequently having short life-spans. Pre-copulatory mate choice processes have been observed in a wide...

Look up mate or Mate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mate may refer to: Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in: Mate choice, intersexual selection...

hypotheses have attempted to explain how parasite load influences female mate choice, as certain traits are thought to be costly and the expression of such...

There is also the concept of color association to possibly explain mate choice since one of the food sources wild guppies compete vigorously for is...

Oecologia, 55: 258 - 263 Hughes, A. L., and Hughes, M. K. (1985). Female choice of mates in polygynous insect, the whitespotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus...