An alternative mating strategy is a strategy used by male or female animals, often with distinct phenotypes, that differs from the prevailing mating strategy...

fertilization. The mating plug plays an important role in sperm competition and may serve as an alternative and more advantageous strategy to active mate guarding...

in mating behavior, as in the case of animal sexual behavior in general and assortative mating in particular. Research on human mating strategies is guided...

by modification of sexual function). Mixed mating systems, in which plants use two or even all three mating systems, are not uncommon. A number of models...

intra-harem competition among females for resources. A lower-cost alternative mating strategy, useful to bachelors without a harem, is kleptogyny (from Greek...

aggressive chasing by other males (see § Alternative mating strategies below) Male displacement from tandem and mating begins again; or, the tandem male and...

Male Lesser Bird of Paradise Paradisaea minor : Evidence for an Alternative Mating Strategy?". Emu - Austral Ornithology. 92 (2): 108–111. doi:10.1071/MU9920108...

polygynandry. Lek mating is frequently regarded as a form of polygyny, because one male mates with many females, but lek-based mating systems differ in...

PMID 29806019. Partridge, Charlyn (2017), "Sneak Copulation as an Alternative Mating Strategy", in Shackelford, Todd K.; Weekes-Shackelford, Viviana A. (eds...

some male Metellina segmentata have alternative mating strategies. In these cases, alternative mating strategies only work when the reproductive benefits...

may meet alternative mates. This is said to support the female dual mating strategy theory, as during oestrus women may be seeking out mates with strong...

Sexual strategies theory (SST) is an evolutionary theory of human mating created by David Buss and David Schmitt in 1993. It defines the set of mating strategies...

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00112.x. Thirgood, S. J. (1991). Alternative Mating Strategies and Reproductive Success in Fallow Deer. Behaviour, 116(1/2)...

numerous very different mating strategies are used within different taxa. This article currently focuses primarily on the mating habits of air-breathing...

Differences in age preferences for mates can stem from partner availability, gender roles, and evolutionary mating strategies, and age preferences in sexual...

exchange for mating outside the conceptive period. For example, female blackbirds that solicit mating outside the fertile period have increased mate guarding...

including a rare form that mimics the female, use a variety of strategies to obtain mating opportunities at a lek, and the colourful head and neck feathers...

copulating with females. The variation in mating success is quite large in lek mating systems with 70–80% of matings being attributed to only 10–20% of the...

give rise to the next generation. Mating in fungi is a complex process governed by mating types. Research on fungal mating has focused on several model species...

in modern society. Human mate poaching is a form of seduction, and can be used as a short-term and long-term mating strategy among both sexes. Moreover...

is reproductively motivated, it is often termed mating or copulation; for most non-human mammals, mating and copulation occur at oestrus (the most fertile...

cell's mating type is determined by a specific genetic locus known as MAT, which governs its mating behaviour. Haploid yeast can switch mating types through...

Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD, German pronunciation: [aːʔɛfˈdeː] ) is a far-right and right-wing populist political...

with males from neighboring communities. These alternative mating strategies give females more mating opportunities without losing the support of the...

investment in humans Sociosexuality Human mating strategies Online dating service Alternative mating strategy Hasson, Oren (1994-04-07). "Cheating Signals"...

mainstream economic theories, using mathematical modeling to propose an alternative model for thinking about the effects of capital accumulation on income...

Perciformes, Tripterygiidae): the adaptive significance of an alternative mating strategy and a red instead of a yellow nuptial colour". Marine Biology...

(September 2003). "Proper and dark heroes as DADS and CADS: Alternative mating strategies in British Romantic literature". Human Nature. 14 (3): 305–17...

commonly used as a mating strategy to gain access to a mate, a defense mechanism to avoid more dominant individuals, or a survival strategy. It can also be...

A. Carter, and K. Donohue. 1986. An insect mating system promotes the choice of "good genotypes" as mates. Science 233: 1187-1190. https://doi.org/10...