scholarly journals Effects of female preference intensity on the permissiveness of sexual trait polymorphisms

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 4518-4524
Author(s):  
Aditya Ponkshe ◽  
John A. Endler
Keyword(s):  
Female Preference ◽  
Sexual Trait ◽  
Preference Intensity

Inferring phylogenetic origins of dimorphic sexual trait in a beetleOedemera sexualis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruki Tatsuta
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Trait

Female Preference and Variability Among t-Haplotypes in Wild House Mice

1994 ◽  
Vol 143 (5) ◽  
pp. 766-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Lenington ◽  
Carol B. Coopersmith ◽  
Mark Erhart
Keyword(s):  
Female Preference ◽  
House Mice ◽  
Wild House Mice

scholarly journals A general model of mating behaviour with natural selection and female preference

Heredity ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
P O'Donald
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
General Model ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Female Preference

Female preference for multiple partners: sperm competition in the hide beetle, Dermestes maculatus (DeGeer)

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie S. Archer ◽  
Mark A. Elgar
Keyword(s):  
Sperm Competition ◽  
Female Preference ◽  
Dermestes Maculatus ◽  
Multiple Partners

Ultraviolet reflectance and female mating preferences in the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Zampiga ◽  
G. Gaibani ◽  
D. Csermely
Keyword(s):  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Female Preference ◽  
Visible Spectral Range ◽  
Falco Tinnunculus ◽  
Uv Filter ◽  
Skin Reflectance ◽  
Ultraviolet Reflectance ◽  
Uv Reflectance ◽  
Female Mating Preferences ◽  
Uv Reflection

Previous studies revealed the importance of plumage brightness (considering only the visible spectral range) in female mate choice of common kestrels ( Falco tinnunculus L., 1758). Our study focuses on the effect of UV reflectance on female preference; we hypothesize that common kestrel females prefer males with UV-reflecting plumage and refuse, or are not attracted to, males whose plumage UV reflectance is prevented. We tested the preference of 20 captive females who were given a choice between two males, one behind a UV-transmitting (UV+) filter and another one behind a UV-blocking (UV–) filter. Female preference was measured as frequency and duration of visits to either male, specifically by sitting on the perch or hanging on to the partition wall. Females visited the male behind the UV+ filter more often than the male behind the UV– filter, indicating that females prefer males with UV-reflecting plumage than males without UV reflection. UV plumage and skin reflectance could provide females with information regarding current male conditions more so than other colours and other morphological parameters.

scholarly journals The limits of sexual conflict in the narrow sense: new insights from waterfowl biology

2012 ◽  
Vol 367 (1600) ◽  
pp. 2324-2338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia L. R. Brennan ◽  
Richard O. Prum
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Conflict ◽  
Female Preference ◽  
Indirect Selection ◽  
Direct Selection ◽  
Sensory Bias ◽  
Indirect Benefits ◽  
Female Preferences ◽  
Male Display ◽  
Male Displays ◽  
Coercive Mating

Sexual conflict occurs when the evolutionary interests of the sexes differ and it broadly applies to decisions over mating, fertilization and parental investment. Recently, a narrower view of sexual conflict has emerged in which direct selection on females to avoid male-imposed costs during mating is considered the distinguishing feature of conflict, while indirect selection is considered negligible. In this view, intersexual selection via sensory bias is seen as the most relevant mechanism by which male traits that harm females evolve, with antagonistic coevolution between female preferences and male manipulation following. Under this narrower framework, female preference and resistance have been synonymized because both result in a mating bias, and similarly male display and coercion are not distinguished. Our recent work on genital evolution in waterfowl has highlighted problems with this approach. In waterfowl, preference and resistance are distinct components of female phenotype, and display and coercion are independent male strategies. Female preference for male displays result in mate choice, while forced copulations by unpreferred males result in resistance to prevent these males from achieving matings and fertilizations. Genital elaborations in female waterfowl appear to function in reinforcing female preference to maintain the indirect benefits of choice rather than to reduce the direct costs of coercive mating. We propose a return to a broader view of conflict where indirect selection and intrasexual selection are considered important in the evolution of conflict.

Male secondary sexual traits do not predict female preference in Caribbean livebearing fishes ( Limia )

Ethology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montrai Spikes ◽  
Sophia Huebler ◽  
Ingo Schlupp
Keyword(s):  
Female Preference ◽  
Secondary Sexual Traits ◽  
Sexual Traits ◽  
Secondary Sexual

Parthenogenetic female populations in the brown algaScytosiphon lomentaria(Scytosiphonaceae, Ectocarpales): decay of a sexual trait and acquisition of asexual traits

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masakazu Hoshino ◽  
Tatsufumi Okino ◽  
Kazuhiro Kogame
Keyword(s):  
Parthenogenetic Female ◽  
Sexual Trait
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