Mate choice copying and mate quality bias: Are they different processes?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 193-194

  Witte, Klaudia ^a   Godin, Jean Guy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mate choice; Mate choice copying; Sexual selection; Social learning

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 72649103546     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp154     Document Type: Review

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