Thus, schizotypy itself can be sexually selected, possibly more strongly so in populations characterized by high levels of mating competition and short-term mating patterns, where displays of good genetic quality are more critical to successful courtship [20].
As we have argued above, the reason for this may be that in species with low oestrus synchrony, high mating skew, monopolized mating and contest competition for dominance, there may be increased advantages to females of signalling ovulation relatively more reliably, and of placing an increased emphasis on biasing paternity towards the dominant.
However, there is, thus, far little reason to suspect that female mating competition is higher in folivorous primates (Huchard and Cowlishaw 2011), although this may warrant further investigation.
This was achieved by a 2 × 2 factorial design incorporating contrasting levels of both sperm competition (high sperm competition (HSC) vs. low sperm competition (LSC)) and mating rate (high mating rate (HMR) vs. low mating rate (LMR)), with n = 8 males per block (n = 32 in total) and social experience manipulated over a period of ten weeks.
Sperm competition, a special form of mating competition that occurs in sexual species when females accept multiple mating partners over a relatively short period of time.
Second, mating competition studies were performed.
Direct measurements of mating competition and sexual selection differentials in the wild, coupled with behavioral observations of mating competition under experimental conditions, may offer a means to determine the relative importance of intrasexual competition and mate choice in reproductive interactions.
gambiae mating system is a lek-like system that incorporates characteristics pertaining to other mating systems such as scramble mating competition.
gambiae mating system can thus be considered a lek-like strategy that incorporates characteristics pertaining to other mating systems such as scramble mating competition.
Thus, our male participants might generally have been motivated to lower F0 variation during mating competition.
