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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"mating tactics"”.
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Stress, sexual signaling, and alternative mating tactics in male green treefrogs, Hyla cinerea
… expression of courtship signals and alternative mating tactics in male green treefrogs, Hyla cinerea. Males of this species produce acoustic signals that stimulate production of the stress hormone corticosterone (CORT) in vocal competitors, suggesting a role of CORT in intrasexual competition. I …
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PATERNAL ATTRACTIVENESS AND PARENTAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES IN SONG SPARROWS MELOSPIZA MELODIA
… many species, both females and males may adjust mating and parental investment tactics in response to the perceived attractiveness of their social mate. I examined how mate attractiveness (based on song complexity and genetic dissimilarity) affects female mating tactics, offspring sex allocation, …
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Social context shapes individual variation in behavior, learning, and neural gene expression in a swordtail fish
… a species with three genetically-influenced male mating strategies (courtship display, coercion, and mixed strategy). In males, we found that coercive males are bolder but have decreased spatial cognition abilities compared to mixed-strategy and courting males. In females, we conducted a social …
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Sisters' curse: sexually antagonistic selection constrains the spread of a rare mitochondrial haplogroup
… as a force driving the evolution of divergent mating tactics in the sexes. In most species, anisogamy is also coupled with strict maternal inheritance of genetic elements in the cytoplasm, including DNA in cellular endosymbionts and mitochondria. Because males are an evolutionary dead end for …
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Behavior and conservation: hellbender reproductive behavioral responses to poor water quality and the value of private lands research for conservation outreach
… behavior by describing the basic hellbender mating sequence, identifying the presence of potential alternative mating tactics, and describing two novel behaviors, including possible signal production via wave-based communication and a unique egg laying behavior by female hellbenders. I then …