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Mapping individual variation in male mating preference space: multiple choice in a color polymorphic cichlid fish.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2009
Pierotti Michele E R, Martín-Fernández Josep A, Seehausen Ole
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Sexual selection theory largely rests on the assumption that populations contain individual variation in mating preferences and that individuals are consistent in their preferences. However, there are few empirical studies of within-population variation and even fewer have examined individual male mating preferences. Here, we studied a color polymorphic population of the Lake Victoria cichlid fish Neochromis...
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