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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

selection, the theory that competition for mates between individuals of the same sex results in differential mating and reproduction. Kin selection, the changes...

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

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

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

mating type is determined by a specific genetic locus known as MAT, which governs the mating behaviour of the cells. Haploid yeast can switch mating types...

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

preference variation has implications for the maintenance of an alternative mating strategy in a swordtail fish". Animal Behaviour. 74 (3): 633–640. doi:10...

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PMC 5031617. PMID 27619696. T.M. Sonneborn (1938). "Mating Types in Paramecium Aurelia: Diverse Conditions for Mating in Different Stocks; Occurrence, Number and...