Mate choice and optimal search behavior: Fitness returns under the fixed sample and sequential search strategies

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 596-600

  Wiegmann, Daniel D ^a   Seubert, Steven M ^a   Wade, Gordon A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed sample search strategy; Male quality; Search costs; Sequential search strategy

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; MATE CHOICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COST; FITNESS; FIXED SAMPLE SEARCH STRATEGY; GENDER IDENTITY; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL SEARCH STRATEGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 77649340518     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.08.033     Document Type: Article

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