Adaptive plasticity in mate preference linked to differences in reproductive effort.

There is abundant evidence for the existence of marked mate preferences in natural populations, but the occurrence of within-population variation in mate preferences has received little attention and is often regarded as nonadaptive deviation from the optimal norm. Here we show experimentally that t...

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Main Authors: Qvarnström, A, Pärt, T, Sheldon, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2000