MALE VERSUS FEMALE MATE CHOICE: SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIES RECOGNITION VIA REINFORCEMENT

• Published in: Evolution Vol. 61; no. 12; pp. 2772 - 2789
• Main Author: Servedio, Maria R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.12.2007; Society for the Study of Evolution; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Alleles; Animal reproduction; Animals; Biological Evolution; Comparative analysis; Direct selection; Ecological competition; Evolution; Female; Female animals; Gender differences; Male; Male animals; mathematical model; Mating behavior; mating preference; Mating Preference, Animal; Modeling; Models, Biological; ORIGINAL ARTICLES; Phenotypic traits; reinforcement; Sex Factors; Sexual selection; speciation; species recognition; Viability

Male mate choice, expressed through courtship preferences, sometime occurs even under the mating system of polygyny, when the operational sex ratio is skewed toward males. The conditions under which male mate choice may be expected during polygyny are not well established. Servedio and Lande (2006,...