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We cannot discount the formal possibility that the mating advantage is due to a direct interaction with competitors, perhaps by blocking them physically or interfering with their pheromone signals.

In contrast, the differential crypsis hypothesis assumes a differential degree of crypsis among polymorphic morphs; therefore, trade-offs between the degree of crypsis and other fitness components, such as mating advantage or thermoregulation ability [13], are necessary to maintain the polymorphism.

Our favored interpretation is that of a focal cell choosing between potential partners, which are signaling for the focal cell's attention, in which case the mating advantage of more viable cells could be considered a measure of "mate preference".

We can interpret the behavior as competition between potential partners that are signaling for the focal cell's attention, in which case the mating advantage of more viable cells could be considered as measure of competitive mating ability, such as "attractiveness".

The equivalent calculation of the mating advantage of large spores for trials in which the small spore was the focal cell is (again one-third of the matings are uninformative): Both formulae give an expected mating advantage of large spores between 0 and 1 (stochastic variation in the proportion of each type of mating could give values that exceed these bounds).

He showed that if one sex was more beneficial to produce (or, to put it another way, less costly in net fitness terms), females should over-produce that sex, up to the point that there was a balancing mating advantage to being the rarer sex.

The final advantage is giving optimal mating force to a ring part.

For the few beachmasters, the system's evolutionary advantage is clear: each one gets to mate with plenty of females.

It is also possible that other mating advantages that are correlated with the female-harm results are not revealed by the assays conducted here.

The mating advantage to larger males is not as apparent in wild populations (Partridge et al., 1987; Markow, 1988).

This result also makes sense, as genotypes that are least infected are also more likely to be selected as mates, and both advantages are lagged in time.