Mate choice by males has been recognized at least since Darwin's time, but its phylogenetic
distribution and effect on the evolution of female phenotypes remain poorly known …

Animals acquire skills and knowledge from other animals, and fish are no exception. There
is now strong experimental evidence that many species of fish exhibit social learning and …

Public information (PI), a form of indirect social information, is used by individuals to estimate
the quality of environmental parameters. It can be acquired in two ways. One way is by …

▪ Abstract Most metazoans engage in recombination every generation. In theory this is
associated with considerable cost, such as the production of males, so that asexual …

Aspects of the environment, including the social environment, can contribute to
intrapopulation variation in mating preferences. One example of the effect of social …

Mate choice copying has been documented extensively in the laboratory with almost no
supporting data available from studies in the wild. We investigated male and female mate …

Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) have a promiscuous mating system in which female choice for
brightly coloured males plays an important role. Consequently, much research on guppies …

In nonhuman animals, mate-choice copying has received much attention, with studies
demonstrating that females tend to copy the choices of other females for specific males …

Positive sexual imprinting is a process by which individuals use the phenotype of their
opposite-sex parent as a template for choosing mates and is suggested to play an important …

Mate choice hypotheses usually focus on trait variation of chosen individuals. Recently,
mate choice studies have increasingly attended to the environmental circumstances …