Mating Preference, Animal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Categorical perception of colour signals in a songbird. 
  • Chimpanzee females queue but males compete for social status 
  • Genome-wide architecture of reproductive isolation in a naturally occurring hybrid zone between Mus musculus musculus and M. m. domesticus. 
  • Honest olfactory ornamentation in a female-dominant primate. 
  • Mechanisms of sexual selection: sexual swellings and estrogen concentrations as fertility indicators and cues for male consort decisions in wild baboons. 
  • The importance of color in mate choice of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus. 
  • The male blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, uses both chromatic and achromatic cues during mate choice. 
  • Threshold assessment, categorical perception, and the evolution of reliable signaling. 
  • Weaponry, color, and contest success in the jumping spider Lyssomanes viridis.