Mate selection

Zahavi, A. 1975. Mate selection—A selection for a handicap. J. Theor. Biol. 53 205-214. 

Aeschlimann, P.B., Haberli, M.A., Reusch, T.B.H., Boehm, T. and Milinski, M. (2003) Female sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculealus use self-reference to optimize MHC allele number during mate selection. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 54, 119-126. 

SYMMETRY, MATE SELECTION, GOOD GESTALT AND THE FRONTAL ANIMAL SCHEME... 

Herz, R. S. and Inzlicht, M. (2002). Sex differences in response to physical and social factors involved in human mate selection the importance of smell for women. Evolution... 

Walker, T.E., Han, C.H., Kollman, V.H., London, R.E., Matwiyoff, N.A. (1982). 13C nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the biosynthesis by Microbacterium ammoniaphilum of L-gluta-mate selectively enriched with carbon-13. J. Biol. Chem. 257,1189-1195. 

The world around us abounds in symmetries and they have been studied for centuries. More recently, research has probed into the role of symmetry in human interactions along with representatives of the animal kingdom. Special attention has been given to mate selection. One of the first appearances of this facet of symmetry in the popular press was an article in The New York Times, with an intriguing title, Why Birds and Bees, Too, Like Good Looks [3],... 

Lykken DT, Tellegen A 1993 Is human mating adventitious or the result of lawful choice A twin study of mate selection. J Pers Soc Psychol 65 56-68... 

A. nderson You are saying that it is a logical possibility that is essentially directly unrelated to fitness, but it is identifiable by the females in mate selection, and it indexes other things that are useful for fitness. Is this correct ... 

Buss DM 1989 Sex differences in human mate selection evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behav Brain Sci 12 1-49... 

Hinde Kittiwakes who don t breed successfully in one year find new mates the next year. Is there any place in your system where you can account for matching, as opposed to absolute value Not everybody prefers the same mate, fortunately Attitude similarity is one of the critical factors in mate selection. 

Semiochemicals can be placed into two distinct classes Pheromones control intraspecific interactions. These semiochemicals provide information regarding a range of behaviours including mate selection, aggregation, dispersal (alarm pheromones), oviposition and food sources (trail pheromones). Allelochemicals control interspecific interactions such as host and non-host identification by primary colonizers (plant or animal) and whether a food source is already exploited through tritrophic interactions (signals indicating the presence of primary colonizers). 

Shuster SM (1990) Courtship and female mate selection in a marine isopod crustacean, Para-cerceis sculpta. Anim Behav 40 390-399... 

Thompson DJ, Manning JT (1981) Mate selection by Asellus (Crustacea Isopoda). Behaviour 78 178-186... 

In some mate choice studies, urine is presented in place of the whole animal in order to demonstrate that odours are, or can be, mediators of disassortative mating (e.g. Ninomiya and Brown, 1995 Ehman and Scott, 2001). In the absence of more direct measures, such as asking human subjects which odour they prefer (e.g. Wedekind et al., 1995), the duration of investigation or time spent near an odour are generally assumed to equate directly to preference. This can be misleading when the assumption is not explicitly tested. For instance, female voles have been shown to exhibit an odour preference for unparasitized males which does not correlate with mate selection (Klein et al., 1999). 

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