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"...
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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...
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Mate-choice copying, or non-independent mate choice, occurs when an individual of an animal species copies another individual's mate choice. In other...
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Stickleback (section Female mate choice)
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...
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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...
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Sexual selection in spiders (section Mate choice)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Oecologia, 55: 258 - 263 Hughes, A. L., and Hughes, M. K. (1985). Female choice of mates in polygynous insect, the whitespotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus...
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Guppy (section Females' mating choice)
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...
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