Female mate-choice behavior and sympatric speciation.

Article

Female mate-choice behavior and sympatric speciation.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2005

Verzijden Machteld N, Lachlan Robert F, Servedio Maria R

Abstract excerpt

Many models have investigated how the process of speciation may occur in sympatry. In these models, individuals are either asexual or mate choice is determined by very simple rules. Females, for example, may be assumed either to compare their phenotype to that of a potential mate, preferring to m...

Topics

Animals
Female
Genetics, Population
Genomic Imprinting
Male
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic
Sexual Behavior, Animal

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