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Low-quality females prefer low-quality males when choosing a mate.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Jan 2010

Holveck Marie-Jeanne, Riebel Katharina

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Mate choice studies routinely assume female preferences for indicators of high quality in males but rarely consider developmental causes of within-population variation in mating preferences. By contrast, recent mate choice models assume that costs and benefits of searching or competing for high-quality males depend on females' phenotypic quality. A prediction following from these models is that manipulation of...

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PMID: 19812084
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1222
PMCID: PMC2842619

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