Can non-directional male mating preferences facilitate honest female ornamentation?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-184

  Chenoweth, Stephen F ^a   Doughty, Paul ^a,d   Kokko, Hanna ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female ornamentation; Male mate choice; Mating preferences; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33644937898     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00867.x     Document Type: Article

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