Sentence examples for mating preferences have from inspiring English sources

Although MHC mating preferences have been observed in seminatural enclosures similar to ours [ 36], we eliminated any such potential effects by equalizing the frequency of MHC haplotypes between the two treatments.

Consistent with this prediction, mating preferences have been observed to vary among populations and closely related species in nature (e.g., [ 1, 12, 13]), and in multiple taxa evidence suggests that the resulting behavioral isolation has been involved in speciation [ 11].

Behavioral studies that examine female mating preferences have shown that when you mask the color differences between males in the laboratory by using monochromatic light, the females show no preference between their own males and those of a closely related species (Mann et al. 2004).

This typically requires a rather intricate interplay of different selective pressures, at least, if the divergence of mating preferences has to be accompanied by a simultaneous divergence of male ornaments to generate reproductive isolation.

However, the role of learning in male mating preferences has received little attention.

Female mate preferences have led to the emergence of extremely elaborate and diverse male ornamentation in many animals (reviewed in [ 1]).

Finally, we would like to stress that experiments using naïve individuals to estimate the genetic component of mate preferences have been underutilised in I. elegans and other odonate species despite such experiments offering tremendous potential to gain insights into the dynamic nature of mate preferences.

Mating preference has little impact on the introduction threshold for immature or young adult age classes.

Second, variation in mate preferences has at least three levels: responsiveness, discrimination and the preference function.

Although work on the development of human mate preferences has typically focused on experiences in early life (e.g., imprinting-like effects in childhood, Perrett et al., 2002), the possibility that early mate choices are another important factor for the development of mate preferences has received relatively little attention.

The coevolution of male traits and female mate preferences has led to the elaboration and diversification of sexually selected traits; however the mechanisms that mediate trait-preference coevolution are largely unknown.