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Behavioral Sciences
Lucie Rigaill, Cecile Garcia
Summary: The traditional view of sex roles and sexual selection emphasizes the evolution of male ornaments based on female mate choice and male-male competition. However, in a study on Japanese macaques, researchers found that male monkeys did not show a preference for darker/red females based on their skin coloration, and did not use female skin coloration to guide their mating efforts or discriminate between females. This suggests that female skin coloration may not have been sexually selected in this species, and males mated regardless of such variation across females.
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Elizabeth R. Magden, Sarah Neal Webb, Susan P. Lambeth, Stephanie J. Buchl, Steven J. Schapiro
Summary: This study investigated the use of lavender as a therapeutic treatment for nonhuman primates (NHPs). Lavender capsules were administered to chimpanzees in an attempt to reduce aggressive behaviors and subsequently decrease the occurrence of wounds. However, while overall wound numbers did not decrease, there was a significant decrease in the percentage of wounds requiring medical intervention during lavender therapy.
Review
Ecology
Pietro Pollo, Shinichi Nakagawa, Michael M. Kasumovic
Summary: Male mate choice varies among individuals, with higher quality males and those in better body condition being more selective. Experimental design may influence the understanding of male mating investment patterns.
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Behavioral Sciences
Pietro Pollo, Nathan W. Burke, Gregory Holwell
Summary: This study explored the effects of male activity levels and female aggressiveness on mating behavior and sexual cannibalism in the springbok mantis, finding that more active males were faster and more likely to interact with females while younger females were more likely to cannibalize males. The study suggests that both male and female personality traits influence the likelihood of sexual encounters, but have little effect on the likelihood of cannibalism, highlighting the potential for personality traits of both sexes to influence mating dynamics in sexually cannibalistic species.
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Behavioral Sciences
John O. Martin, Nancy Tyler Burley
Summary: Understanding the dynamics of mutual mate choice requires investigation of mate preferences of both sexes using a variety of designs, but fewer studies have focused on male choice in avian models. The results of the study suggest that experimental design can significantly impact the preferences of male zebra finches, highlighting the importance of considering design considerations in mate choice experiments.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
William D. D. Hopkins, Michele M. M. Mulholland, Mary Catherine Mareno, Sarah J. Neal Webb, Steven J. J. Schapiro
Summary: Declarative and imperative joint attention are crucial developmental milestones in human infants, with implications for language development. While chimpanzees as a group perform better than chance in receptive joint attention tasks, individual performance did not show significant differences. The performance in object choice tasks was not significantly heritable, and there were no significant effects of sex, rearing history, or colony, suggesting a complex interplay of factors influencing task performance. The differences in gray matter covariation between those who passed and failed the task suggest potential implications for the importance of social brain networks in both human and nonhuman primate social cognition.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Ecology
Samuel S. Snow, Richard O. Prum
Summary: Models of sexual conflict have traditionally assumed that female resistance to male coercion requires direct confrontation, leading to antagonistic coevolutionary arms-races. However, our quantitative model introduces the concept that females can evolve new mate preferences for traits that undermine male coercion, thus enhancing their own sexual autonomy. This alternative mechanism allows females to avoid arms-races and gain indirect benefits of having attractive mates. Our analysis reveals the potential for evolutionary remodeling and the favoring of protective male traits, leading to expanding sexual autonomy.
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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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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Pei Zhang, Bingyi Zhang, Derek W. Dunn, Xiaoyue Song, Kang Huang, Shixuan Dong, Fei Niu, Meijing Ying, Yingying Zhang, Yixin Shang, Ruliang Pan, Baoguo Li
Summary: Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are important for immunocompetence in vertebrates and influence female mate choice in wild golden snub-nosed monkeys. MHC dissimilarity is favored for social choice, while intermediate MHC dissimilarity is favored for paternal choice. Social mates prefer MHC heterozygotes and higher microsatellite diversity, while paternal mates prefer higher microsatellite diversity. The formation of male-female social pairings is predicted by compatibility based on MHC sharing, but genetic effects do not impact the duration of pairings or the likelihood of producing offspring.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Koutaro Ould Maeno, Cyril Piou, Sidi Ould Ely, Sid'Ahmed Ould Mohamed, Mohamed El Hacen Jaavar, Said Ghaout, Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah Ebbe
Summary: Male mating harassment can be reduced in dense populations of desert locusts through behavioral adaptations, where non-gravid females and males live separately while males wait for gravid females at lekking sites to mate. In low-density populations, solitarious locusts display balanced sex ratios and females mate regardless of ovarian state. This suggests that group separation based on sex biases behavior to minimize male mating harassment and competition.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Michelle Beyer, Kardelen Ozgun Uludag, Cristina Tuni
Summary: This study examines whether male spiders choose mates based on the reproductive potential of females. The results show that male spiders prefer females with higher reproductive potential, regardless of their mating state.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Behavioral Sciences
Yutaro Sato, Yutaka Sakai, Satoshi Hirata
Summary: Research suggests that chimpanzees tend to prefer larger rewards in intertemporal choice tasks, especially when the reward ratio is larger. However, they have difficulties in understanding and applying postreward delays.
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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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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Biology
Thomas A. Keaney, Theresa M. Jones, Luke Holman
Summary: The SD allele in Drosophila melanogaster distorts Mendelian inheritance in heterozygous males by causing developmental failure of non-SD spermatids, leading to greater than 90% of sperm carrying SD. Sexual selection may limit the natural frequencies of SD when sperm competitive ability and female remating rate equal the values observed for one SD variant, SD-5, but is unable to explain the rarity of SD when parameterized with the values found for two other SD variants.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
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Ecology
Rachel M. Petersen, Christina M. Bergey, Christian Roos, James P. Higham
Summary: This study compares the genome-wide and locus-specific targets of mate choice and finds that genome-wide diversity is not associated with MHC diversity. Additionally, kinship is a significant predictor of MHC allele sharing between individuals. The study highlights the importance of controlling for kinship when investigating MHC-associated mate choice.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Stefano S. K. Kaburu, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
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Behavioral Sciences
Stefano S. K. Kaburu, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2015)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Vernon Reynolds, Andrew W. Lloyd, Christopher J. English, Peter Lyons, Howard Dodd, Catherine Hobaiter, Nicholas Newton-Fisher, Caroline Mullins, Noemie Lamon, Anne Marijke Schel, Brittany Fallon
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Anthropology
Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher, Melissa Emery Thompson, Vernon Reynolds, Christophe Boesch, Linda Vigilant
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2010)
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Zoology
Stefano S. K. Kaburu, Sana Inoue, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2013)
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Behavioral Sciences
Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher, Phyllis C. Lee
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Behavioral Sciences
Stefano S. K. Kaburu, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lucy P. Birkett, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sarah E. Johns, Lucy A. Hargrave, Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
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Zoology
Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2006)
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Zoology
KE Slocombe, NE Newton-Fisher
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2005)
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Zoology
NE Newton-Fisher
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Ecology
NE Newton-Fisher
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2003)
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Zoology
NE Newton-Fisher, H Notman, V Reynolds
FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA
(2002)