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SUBMITTER: Class B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6083224 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Class Barbara B Brommer Jon E JE
Biology letters 20180701 7
Assortative mating is pervasive in wild populations and commonly described as a positive correlation between the phenotypes of males and females across mated pairs. This correlation is often assumed to reflect non-random mate choice based on phenotypic similarity. However, phenotypic resemblance between mates can also arise when their traits respond plastically to a shared environmental effect creating a (within-pair) residual correlation in traits. Using long-term data collected in pairs of wil ...[more]