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1. Full Text Inbreeding avoidance, tolerance, or preference in animals?
by Szulkin, Marta and Stopher, Katie V and Pemberton, Josephine M and Reid, Jane M
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, ISSN 0169-5347, 04/2013, Volume 28, Issue 4, pp. 205 - 211
► Inbreeding depression is often assumed to cause selection for inbreeding avoidance. ► Animals sometimes tolerate inbreeding, or even prefer to mate with... 
inbreeding strategy | relatedness | inclusive fitness | mate choice | inbreeding avoidance | inbreeding preference | Inbreeding avoidance | Inbreeding strategy | Relatedness | Inbreeding preference | Inclusive fitness | Mate choice | PAIRWISE RELATEDNESS | BIASED DISPERSAL | SONG SPARROWS | WILD BIRD POPULATION | NATURAL-POPULATIONS | DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER | NO EVIDENCE | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | MOLECULAR MARKERS | SPARROWS MELOSPIZA-MELODIA | GENETICS & HEREDITY | ECOLOGY | Mating Preference, Animal | Inbreeding | Animal Distribution | Animals | Models, Biological | Evolutionary biology
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2. The mandrill
: a case of extreme sexual selection
by Dixson, Alan F
2015, ISBN 1107114616, xvi, 244 p., [16] p. of plates
Living in the remote forests of western central Africa, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is notoriously elusive and has evaded scientific scrutiny for decades.... 
Reproduction | Mandrill | Sexual selection in animals
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3. Mate choice
: the evolution of sexual decision making from microbes to humans
by Rosenthal, Gil Guastoni, 1971- author
2017, ISBN 0691150672, xiv, 632 pages
A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females... 
Courtship in animals | Mate selection | Sexual selection in animals | Biological Sciences | Psychology | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Evolution (Biology)
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4. A red bird in a brown bag
: the function and evolution of colorful plumage in the house finch
by Hill, Geoffrey E. (Geoffrey Edward)
2002, Oxford Ornithology Series, ISBN 9780195148480, xiv, 318
The House Finch is among the most mundane birds, so ubiquitous and familiar across the U.S. and Canada that it does not rate a glance from most bird... 
House finch | Sexual selection in animals | Color | vertebrates | Indicator trait | Carotenoids | Plumage color | Sexual selection | House Finch | Mate choice | Parasites
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5. Full Text Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster
by Gil Sharon and Daniel Segal and John M. Ringo and Abraham Hefetz and Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg and Eugene Rosenberg and R. John Collier
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 11/2010, Volume 107, Issue 46, pp. 20051 - 20056
Development of mating preference is considered to be an early event in speciation. In this study, mating preference was achieved by dividing a population of... 
Mating behavior | Microbiota | Antibiotics | Wolbachia | Drosophila | Bacteria | Evolution | Starches | Infections | Lactobacillus | Symbiosis | Hologenome | Holobiont | microbiota | SEXUAL ISOLATION | MICROORGANISMS | STRAINS | EVOLUTION | holobiont | symbiosis | SPECIATION | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | hologenome | Bacteria - metabolism | Drosophila melanogaster - microbiology | Animals | Drosophila melanogaster - physiology | Hydrocarbons - metabolism | Integumentary System - microbiology | Drosophila melanogaster - growth & development | Female | Male | Mating Preference, Animal - physiology | Diet - veterinary | Commensalism | Genetic aspects | Courtship of animals | Sexual behavior | Sex pheromone | Commensals | Cuticular hydrocarbons | Media (culture) | Molasses | Mixed culture | Starch | Data processing | Infection | Mating | Pure culture | Speciation | Biological Sciences
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6. Full Text Transgenerational Epigenetic Imprints on Mate Preference
by David Crews and Andrea C. Gore and Timothy S. Hsu and Nygerma L. Dangleben and Michael Spinetta and Timothy Schallert and Matthew D. Anway and Michael K. Skinner
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 4/2007, Volume 104, Issue 14, pp. 5942 - 5946
Environmental contamination by endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) can have epigenetic effects (by DNA methylation) on the germ line and promote disease... 
Mating behavior | Phenotypes | Odors | Male animals | Epigenetics | Mental stimulation | Rats | Gender discrimination | Female animals | Laboratory animals | Endocrine disruption | Sexual selection | Odor salience | Vinclozolin | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | sexual selection | ACCESSORY OLFACTORY-BULB | MHC | vinclozolin | endocrine disruption | CHOICE | ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS | GENES | odor salience | FOS-IMMUNOREACTIVITY | MICE | ODOR | REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS | EXPOSURE | Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects | Androgen Antagonists - pharmacology | Male | Rats, Sprague-Dawley | Genomic Imprinting - drug effects | Mating Preference, Animal - drug effects | Genomic Imprinting - genetics | Pregnancy | Animals | Endocrine Disruptors - pharmacology | Epigenesis, Genetic - genetics | Female | Epigenesis, Genetic - drug effects | Oxazoles - pharmacology | Endocrine disruptors | Mate selection | Genetic aspects | Research | Biological Sciences
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7. An infrared motion detector system for lossless real-time monitoring of animal preference tests
by Pogány, Á and Pogány, Zita and Heszberger, J and Szurovecz, Zita and Vincze, E and Székely, T
Acta biologica Hungarica, ISSN 0236-5383, 2014, Volume 65, Issue 4, pp. 385 - 395
Automated behavioural observations are routinely used in many fields of biology, including ethology, behavioural ecology and physiology. When preferences for... 
lossless monitoring | real-time | infrared sensor | Motion detector | mating preferences | MATE CHOICE | BIOLOGY | MALES | FEMALE ZEBRA FINCHES | Reproducibility of Results | Transducers | Choice Behavior | Materials Testing | Motor Activity | Equipment Design | Automation, Laboratory | Finches - physiology | Behavior, Animal | Animals | Time Factors | Infrared Rays | Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted | Video Recording | Female | Software
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8. Full Text A quantitative review of MHC‐based mating preference: the role of diversity and dissimilarity
by Kamiya, T and O'Dwyer, K and Westerdahl, H and Senior, A and Nakagawa, S and Lund University and MEMEG and Lunds universitet
Molecular Ecology, ISSN 0962-1083, 11/2014, Volume 23, Issue 21, pp. 5151 - 5163
Sexual selection hypotheses stipulate that the major histocompatibility complex genes (MHC) constitute a key molecular underpinning for mate choice in... 
meta‐regression | meta‐analysis | the major histocompatibility complex | MHC diversity | mate choice | genetic compatibility | meta-analysis | meta-regression | PARASITE RESISTANCE | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX | SEXUAL SELECTION | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | PUBLICATION BIAS | EVOLUTION | NATURAL-SELECTION | CLASS-I | ECOLOGY | GOOD-GENES | SAND LIZARDS | DEPENDENT MATE CHOICE | Genetic Variation | Mating Preference, Animal | Major Histocompatibility Complex | Animals | Vertebrates - genetics | Female | Male | Phylogeny | Phylogenetics | Animal reproduction | Vertebrates | Evolution | Population genetics | Biological Sciences | diversity | Naturvetenskap | MHC | Biologi | Natural Sciences
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9. Reproductive skew in vertebrates
: proximate and ultimate causes
by Hager, Reinmar, 1974 and Jones, Clara B
2009, ISBN 0521864097, xxi, 523
Reproductive skew is the study of how reproduction is partitioned in animal societies. In many social animals reproduction is shared unequally and leads to a... 
Vertebrates | Reproduction | Sexual selection in animals
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10. The dawn of the deed
: the prehistoric origins of sex
by Long, John A
2012, ISBN 9780226492544, 278 p., [8] p. of plates
We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? The history of sex is as old as life itselfmdash;and... 
Biology, life sciences | Sexual instinct
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11. The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals
by Leonard, Janet L. 1953- (Janet Louise) and Córdoba-Aguilar, Alex
2010, ISBN 0195325559, ix, 537
Evolution | Generative organs | Sexual selection in animals
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12. Genotype-by-environment interactions and sexual selection
by Hosken, David J., editor and Hunt, John, 1974- editor
2014, ISBN 0470671793, xviii, 338 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates
Sexual selection is recognized as being responsible for some of the most extravagant morphologies and behaviors in the natural world, as well as a driver of... 
Sexual selection in animals | Genotype-environment interaction | Life Sciences | Science | Evolution
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13. Full Text Diversification under sexual selection: the relative roles of mate preference strength and the degree of divergence in mate preferences
by Rodríguez, Rafael L and Boughman, Janette W and Gray, David A and Hebets, Eileen A and Höbel, Gerlinde and Symes, Laurel B and Grether, Greg
Ecology Letters, ISSN 1461-023X, 08/2013, Volume 16, Issue 8, pp. 964 - 974
The contribution of sexual selection to diversification remains poorly understood after decades of research. This may be in part because studies have focused... 
Diversification | mate preference function | sexual coevolution | Mate preference function | Sexual coevolution | PHENOTYPIC SELECTION | SIGNAL EVOLUTION | FIELD CRICKETS | MATING PREFERENCES | FEMALE CHOICE | EXPERIENCE-MEDIATED PLASTICITY | SPECIATION | NATURAL-SELECTION | ECOLOGY | DIRECTIONAL SELECTION | GENETIC-DIVERGENCE | Biological Evolution | Mating Preference, Animal | Sexual Behavior, Animal | Animals | Vertebrates - physiology | Female | Insecta - physiology | Male | Spiders - physiology | Natural selection | Evolutionary biology | Animal reproduction | Ideas and s
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14. Full Text Animal signals
by Laidre, Mark E and Johnstone, Rufus A
Current Biology, ISSN 0960-9822, 09/2013, Volume 23, Issue 18, pp. R829 - R833
The study of animal signals began in earnest with the publication in 1872 of Charles Darwin’s , which laid the basis for a comparative study of signals across... 
BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | CELL BIOLOGY | Behavior, Animal | Cues | Mating Preference, Animal | Animals | Language | Humans | Nonverbal Communication | Animal Communication
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15. Full Text Assortative Mating in Animals
by Yuexin Jiang and Daniel I. Bolnick and Mark Kirkpatrick and Associate Editor: Göran Arnqvist and Editor: Mark A. McPeek
The American Naturalist, ISSN 0003-0147, 06/2013, Volume 181, Issue 6, pp. E125 - E138
Assortative mating occurs when there is a correlation (positive or negative) between male and female phenotypes or genotypes across mated pairs. To determine... 
Assortative mating | Taxa | Mating behavior | Databases | Sample size | E-Article | Personality traits | Evolution | Population genetics | Speciation | Phenotypic traits | Sexual selection | Sympatric speciation | Mate choice | Distribution of assortment strength | Nonrandom mating |