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Does personality affect premating isolation between locally-adapted populations?
BMC evolutionary biology - 23 Jun 2016
Sommer-Trembo Carolin, Bierbach David, Arias-Rodriguez Lenin, Verel Yesim, Jourdan Jonas, Zimmer Claudia, Riesch Rüdiger, Streit Bruno, Plath Martin
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BACKGROUND: One aspect of premating isolation between diverging, locally-adapted population pairs is female mate choice for resident over alien male phenotypes. Mating preferences often show considerable individual variation, and whether or not certain individuals are more likely to contribute to population interbreeding remains to be studied. In the Poecilia mexicana-species complex different ecotypes have...
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