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SUBMITTER: Lyu N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748628 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lyu Nan N Yeh D Justin DJ Lloyd Huw H Sun Yue-Hua YH
Communications biology 20220110 1
Existing sexual selection theory postulates that a sufficiently large variation in female fecundity or other direct benefits are fundamental for generating male mate choice. In this study, we suggest that, in addition to pre-pairing preferences, choosy males can also have different post-pairing behaviors, a factor which has been comparatively overlooked by previous studies. We found that both male preferences and female traits could evolve much more easily than previously expected when the choos ...[more]