Assortative mating in animals

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Yuexin ^a   Bolnick, Daniel I ^b   Kirkpatrick, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disassortative mating; Distribution of assortment strength; Mate choice; Meta analysis; Nonrandom mating; Sexual selection; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; CORRELATION; GENOTYPE; MATING BEHAVIOR; META-ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SIMULATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; META ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84877778477     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670160     Document Type: Article

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