Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur. It is characterized by a "selective response by animals to particular stimuli"...

mate, females exhibit more mate choice selectivity than males, as is seen in nature. Relative to most other animals however, female and male mating strategies...

Mate-choice copying, or non-independent mate choice, occurs when an individual of an animal species copies another individual's mate choice. In other...

number of females a male can mate with. This introduces the ability for selection to favor male mate choice. Male mate choice is rarely studied or observed...

sperm competition, sexual size dimorphism, cryptic female choice, the role of pheromones in mating behaviour, and the function and evolution of web decorations...

of most species surviving only a few matings and consequently having short life-spans. Pre-copulatory mate choice processes have been observed in a wide...

then characterized by male-male competitions influenced by female mate choice. Mating seasons fluctuate based on species dependent on geographical location...

sexual cannibalism, namely adaptive foraging, aggressive spillover, mate choice, and mistaken identity. The adaptive foraging hypothesis is a proposed...

she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate choice contexts". Personality and Individual Differences. 45 (6):...

sneaker males quickly insert drop-like sperm into the seminal receptacle. Mate choice is seen in cuttlefish species, where females prefer some males over others...

observation of that individual's sexual characteristics. Sexual selection or mate choice can accelerate the evolution of differences between the sexes. The terms...

as female choice; and intrasexual competition, where individuals of the more abundant sex compete with each other for the privilege to mate. Sexually...

Clarke FM, Faulkes CG (October 1999). "Kin discrimination and female mate choice in the naked mole-rat Heterocephalus glaber". Proceedings. Biological...

sexual selection, the mating call has many variations that may come into play as a major factor in mate choice by females. During mating, females monitor body...

There is also the concept of color association to possibly explain mate choice since one of the food sources wild guppies compete vigorously for is...

A lekking species is characterised by male displays, strong female mate choice, and the conferring of indirect benefits to males and reduced costs to...

hypotheses have attempted to explain how parasite load influences female mate choice, as certain traits are thought to be costly and the expression of such...

coloration is itself adaptive as camouflage. In his opinion, ascribing mate choice to females was attributing the ability to judge standards of beauty to...

disassortative mate choice may maintain genetic diversity in some species. Depending on how parasites alter selection on MHC alleles, MHC-dependent mate-choice may...

a similar mate value, to avoid rejection. Specifically, one could infer that one's own mate value has a direct impact upon partner choice through the...

independent of the species' vision. Similar sexual dimorphism and mating choice are also observed in many fish species. For example, male guppies have...

S2CID 53161684. Bradbury, J. E. and Gibson, R. M. (1983) Leks and mate choice. In: Mate Choice (ed. P. Bateson). pp. 109–138. Cambridge University Press....

female mate choice and its associations with social judgements in modern-day society.[unreliable medical source?] A study which illustrates female mate choice...

pair bonding ends after mouth brooding begins. An experiment studying mate choice in the mango tilapia shows results of the correlation between operational...

potential mating partners. Greater choice and variety of mates increases a female's chance to produce more viable offspring. However, multiple mates for a...

is too close to the nest of a mated pair. In terms of mate choice, the trumpeter swan continually returns to the mate from previous breeding terms. Often...

competition with those of the same sex over access to mates) and intersexual choice (discriminative choice of mating partners). Life history theory (that includes...

Look up mate or Mate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mate may refer to: Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in: Mate choice, intersexual selection...

potential running mates in the following days. Also on July 30, The Hill reported that while Harris had not yet finalized her running mate choice, she planned...

Cryptic female choice is a form of mate choice which occurs both in pre- and post-copulatory circumstances in which females of certain species use physical...