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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yao Hou, Ke Tang, Jingyuan Wang, Danxia Xie, Hanzhe Zhang
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Xue-Yuan Di, Bin Yan, Cheng-Xu Wu, Xiao-Fei Yu, Jian-Feng Liu, Mao-Fa Yang
Summary: The study compared the life performance and mating choice of Spodoptera litura reared on different diets, showing significant effects on developmental stages, fecundity, and mate choice. Artificial diet may promote behavioral isolation, impacting mating outcomes. Host plant preference during the larval stage may shape phenotypic plasticity and behavioral isolation in S. litura populations.
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Behavioral Sciences
Sarah L. Y. Lau, Gray A. Williams, Antonio Carvajal-Rodriguez, Emilio Rolan-Alvarez
Summary: Size-assortative mating and sexual selection on size are common across species, with mate choice based on size being a widespread process. In studying the size-based mate choice in intertidal snails, it was found that males prefer to mate with slightly larger females, and multiple-choice experiments are valuable in understanding how males choose mates in the wild.
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Ecology
E. Keith Bowers
Summary: Woodman et al. investigate age-assortative mating in bird populations with different life-history strategies. They find that in long-lived mute swans, positive age-assortative mating occurs through active mate selection, while in shorter-lived great tits, it is primarily a passive byproduct of demographic processes.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Michael J. Pauers, Jacob A. Grudnowski
Summary: This study examines behavioral reproductive isolation in a pair of rock-dwelling cichlids from Lake Malawi and confirms that females prefer conspecific males, providing further evidence for the role of sexual selection in speciation of cichlid fishes from Lake Malawi.
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Biology
Paulo B. Chaves, Karen B. Strier, Anthony Di Fiore
Summary: Evidence suggests that females, both human and nonhuman primates, avoid breeding with close kin and may choose mates based on MHC diversity. In egalitarian societies like the northern muriquis, female mate choice is less constrained and sires with higher MHC diversity are preferred. However, there is no evidence of mating preference for males who are more distantly related or have more MHC alleles distinct from their own, suggesting that female mate choice may be limited by other factors impacting male fertilization success.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Katarzyna Pisanski, Maydel Fernandez-Alonso, Nadir Diaz-Simon, Anna Oleszkiewicz, Adrian Sardinas, Robert Pellegrino, Nancy Estevez, Emanuel C. Mora, Curtis R. Luckett, David R. Feinberg
Summary: Height preferences in mate selection differ between genders, with men generally preferring taller female partners. Additionally, men exhibit stronger assortative preferences for height in short-term relationships compared to long-term relationships.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Biology
Carrie L. Branch, Joseph F. Welklin, Benjamin R. Sonnenberg, Lauren M. Benedict, Virginia K. Heinen, Angela M. Pitera, Eli S. Bridge, Vladimir V. Pravosudov
Summary: This study compared the spatial cognitive performance and food caching propensity of mountain chickadees in different winter climates to understand how these measures contribute to social mate choice. The findings suggest that cognition and caching propensity may influence social mating decisions, but only in certain environments and for some aspects of cognition.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Paola Bressan
Summary: Men with light eyes are more inclined to prefer women with light eyes, especially as long-term companions, and also feel more threatened by rivals with light eyes than by rivals with dark eyes.
ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Ana Leitao, Michelle L. Hall, Raoul A. Mulder
Summary: This study investigated the sexual selection of plumage ornamentation in female and male lovely fairy-wrens, finding that plumage color was correlated with parental quality but not individual quality or survival. Positive assortative mating based on plumage color was also observed, with less colorful males obtaining higher extrapair paternity when paired with more colorful females.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Eugene V. Kozminsky, Elena A. Serbina, Alexey O. Smurov
Summary: This study examined the influence of size on mate choice in three species of White Sea molluscs. The results revealed three different patterns of reproductive behavior in male snails. The preference for larger females was observed in L. obtusata, while L. fabalis preferred females of their own size or larger. In L. saxatilis, mating occurred with females of similar size. These findings suggest that size-assortative mating and selection for larger females can contribute to sympatric speciation.
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Behavioral Sciences
Peyton A. Rather, Abigail E. Herzog, David A. Ernst, Erica L. Westerman
Summary: The study found that social experience can influence male mate preference in the butterfly Heliconius melpomene, which has implications for the speciation of butterfly species.
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Ecology
Laura L. Dean, Hannah R. Dunstan, Amelia Reddish, Andrew D. C. MacColl
Summary: Ecological divergence in mating characteristics, particularly nesting microhabitat, may be more important than direct mate choice in maintaining reproductive isolation in stickleback species pairs.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Ecology
Joe P. P. Woodman, Ella F. F. Cole, Josh A. A. Firth, Christopher M. M. Perrins, Ben C. C. Sheldon
Summary: Age has significant effects on behavior, survival, and reproduction. Age-assortative mating is common, but the mechanisms driving it are not well understood. This study compares breeding data from great tits and mute swans to investigate the contributions of pair retention, cohort age structure, and active age-related mate selection to age assortment. The results show that the drivers of age assortment differ between the species, likely due to their different life histories and demographic differences. Understanding these mechanisms and their consequences is important for wild populations.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Genetics & Heredity
M. Fernandez-Meirama, E. Rolan-Alvarez, A. Carvajal-Rodriguez
Summary: In recent years, there has been increasing interest in evolutionary divergence and speciation caused by ecologically based divergent natural selection at small spatial scales. Through individual-based simulations, the evolution of choice values can be observed to match empirical data, and it is found that speciation is influenced by the strength of selection.
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
(2022)
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Ecology
Yusan Yang, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Anisha Devar, Matthew B. Dugas
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Ecology
Y. Yang, M. B. Dugas, H. J. Sudekum, S. N. Murphy, C. L. Richards-Zawacki
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Zoology
Cheng-Yu Li, Yusan Yang, Pey-Yi Lee, Yuying Hsu
FRONTIERS IN ZOOLOGY
(2014)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yusan Yang, Maria R. Servedio, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki
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Psychology, Biological
Cheng-Yu Li, Yung-Che Tseng, Yu-Ju Chen, Yusan Yang, Yuying Hsu
BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
(2020)
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Psychology, Biological
Yusan Yang, Vincent Premel, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki
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Behavioral Sciences
Yusan Yang, Eleanor Grant, Andres Lopez-Sepulcre, Swanne P. Gordon
Summary: Sexual harassment is a common outcome of sexual conflict, and females often change their behaviors to avoid unwanted attention. In Trinidadian guppies, males use either sneak mating behavior or courtship displays as reproductive tactics. In low-predation habitats, males use courtship more and sneak behavior less, and female foraging strategy coevolves with less severe male harassment. Our study found that both sneak behavior and courtship display reduced female foraging, but sneak behavior had a greater effect, particularly on high-predation females.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Zoology
Y. Yang, E. Grant, L. E. Johnson, E. Urquhart, S. Rosenbloom, Z. Walker, K. Hsiao, S. P. Gordon
INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Zoology
Y. Yang, C. L. Richards-Zawacki
INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Yusan Yang, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki
Summary: This study investigated the impact of male-male competition on mate choice, and found that in the strawberry poison frog, territorial competition among males determines females' mating choice, rather than their preference for male coloration.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Jonathan N. Pruitt, Kimberly A. Howell, Shaniqua J. Gladney, Yusan Yang, James L. L. Lichtenstein, Michelle Elise Spicer, Sebastian A. Echeverri, Noa Pinter-Wollman
AMERICAN NATURALIST
(2017)
