Article
Sexual imprinting on ecologically divergent traits leads to sexual isolation in sticklebacks.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Sept 2011
Kozak Genevieve M, Head Megan L, Boughman Janette W
Abstract excerpt
During sexual imprinting, offspring learn parental phenotypes and then select mates who are similar to their parents. Imprinting has been thought to contribute to the process of speciation in only a few rare cases; this is despite imprinting's potential to generate assortative mating and solve th...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Choice Behavior
- Ecology
- Female
- Imprinting, Psychological
- Male
- Phenotype
- Reproduction
- Sexual Behavior, Animal
- Smegmamorpha
- Species Specificity