Why do some animals mate with one partner rather than many? A review of causes and consequences of monogamy

C Kvarnemo - Biological Reviews, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Why do some animals mate with one partner rather than many? Here, I investigate factors
related to (i) spatial constraints (habitat limitation, mate availability),(ii) time constraints …

Proposing a neural framework for the evolution of elaborate courtship displays

RW Schwark, MJ Fuxjager, MF Schmidt - Elife, 2022‏ - elifesciences.org
In many vertebrates, courtship occurs through the performance of elaborate behavioral
displays that are as spectacular as they are complex. The question of how sexual selection …

Disentangling structural genomic and behavioural barriers in a sea of connectivity

JMI Barth, D Villegas‐Ríos, C Freitas… - Molecular …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Genetic divergence among populations arises through natural selection or drift and is
counteracted by connectivity and gene flow. In sympatric populations, isolating mechanisms …

Assortative mating for reproductive timing affects population recruitment and resilience in a quantitative genetic model

SA May, JJ Hard, MJ Ford, KA Naish… - Evolutionary …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative models that simulate the inheritance and evolution of fitness‐linked traits offer a
method for predicting how environmental or anthropogenic perturbations can affect the …

Sex roles and sexual selection: lessons from a dynamic model system

T Amundsen - Current zoology, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Our understanding of sexual selection has greatly improved during the last decades. The
focus is no longer solely on males, but also on how female competition and male mate …

Introduced parasite changes host phenotype, mating signal and hybridization risk: Philornis downsi effects on Darwin's finch song

S Kleindorfer, G Custance… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Introduced parasites that alter their host's mating signal can change the evolutionary
trajectory of a species through sexual selection. Darwin's Camarhynchus finches are …

Natal philopatry increases relatedness within groups of coral reef cardinalfish

T Rueger, HB Harrison, PM Buston… - … of the Royal …, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A central issue in evolutionary ecology is how patterns of dispersal influence patterns of
relatedness in populations. In terrestrial organisms, limited dispersal of offspring leads to …

Courtship behavior, nesting microhabitat, and assortative mating in sympatric stickleback species pairs

LL Dean, HR Dunstan, A Reddish… - Ecology and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The maintenance of reproductive isolation in the face of gene flow is a particularly
contentious topic, but differences in reproductive behavior may provide the key to explaining …

Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size

J Goyes Vallejos, J Gomez… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2021‏ - Springer
Size-assortative mating is a pattern of non-random pairing among individuals that has been
presumed to arise due to the enhanced reproductive success that may accrue from mating …

Sex and recombination purge the genome of deleterious alleles: An Individual Based Modeling Approach

B MacPherson, R Scott, R Gras - Ecological Complexity, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The prevalence of sexual reproduction in most animal species despite its considerable costs
such as useless males, energy spent on mating, the cost of meiosis and genome dilution …