Diversification under sexual selection: The relative roles of mate preference strength and the degree of divergence in mate preferences

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 964-974

  Rodríguez, Rafael L ^a   Boughman, Janette W ^b   Gray, David A ^c   Hebets, Eileen A ^d   Höbel, Gerlinde ^a   Symes, Laurel B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Mate preference function; Sexual coevolution

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MATE CHOICE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIVERSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INSECT; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATE PREFERENCE FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COEVOLUTION; SPIDER; VERTEBRATE;

DIVERSIFICATION; MATE PREFERENCE FUNCTION; SEXUAL COEVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INSECTS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPIDERS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84880326093     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12142     Document Type: Article

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