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Zohar, Ada, and Ruth Guttman. "Mate preference is not mate selection." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12, no. 1 (March 1989): 38–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00024262.

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Townsend, John Marshall. "Mate selection criteria." Ethology and Sociobiology 10, no. 4 (April 1989): 241–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(89)90002-2.

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Radina, M. Elise. "Mate Selection Across Cultures." Family Relations 53, no. 4 (July 2004): 419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0197-6664.2004.0bkrev11.x.

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Kinghorn, Brian P. "Mate Selection by Groups." Journal of Dairy Science 81 (September 1998): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(98)70154-7.

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Ryan, Barbara. "Mate selection across cultures." Journal of Marriage and Family 66, no. 4 (November 2004): 1070–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.0br2.x.

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Levine, Louis. "Sexual selection does not equal mate selection." Animal Behaviour 33, no. 4 (November 1985): 1363–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0003-3472(85)80200-1.

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Pratima, Pratima, and Mukta Garg. "Adolescents' attitude towards mate selection." ADVANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE 7, no. 1 (June 15, 2016): 88–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15740/has/arjss/7.1/88-90.

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Nongkynrih, A. K. "Mate Selection: A Sociological Exploration." Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India 65, no. 1 (June 2016): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277436x20160101.

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Buss, David M., and Michael Barnes. "Preferences in human mate selection." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50, no. 3 (March 1986): 559–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.50.3.559.

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Andersson, Malte, and Leigh W. Simmons. "Sexual selection and mate choice." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21, no. 6 (June 2006): 296–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2006.03.015.

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Wallen, Kim. "Mate selection: Economics and affection." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12, no. 1 (March 1989): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00024250.

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Zheng, Jing. "Mate Selection and Gender Reflexivity." Asian Women 33, no. 1 (March 31, 2017): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.14431/aw.2017.03.33.1.49.

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Cummings, Molly E. "Looking for sexual selection in the female brain." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, no. 1600 (August 19, 2012): 2348–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0105.

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Female mate choice behaviour has significant evolutionary consequences, yet its mechanistic origins are not fully understood. Recent studies of female sensory systems have made great strides in identifying internal mechanisms governing female preferences. Only recently, however, have we begun to identify the dynamic genomic response associated with mate choice behaviour. Poeciliids provide a powerful comparative system to examine genomic responses governing mate choice and female preference behaviour, given the great range of mating systems: from female mate choice taxa with ornamental courting males to species lacking male ornamentation and exhibiting only male coercion. Furthermore, they exhibit laboratory-tractable preference responses without sexual contact that are decoupled from reproductive state, allowing investigators to isolate mechanisms in the brain without physiological confounds. Early investigations with poeciliid species ( Xiphophorus nigrensis and Gambusia affinis ) have identified putative candidate genes associated with female preference response and highlight a possible genomic pathway underlying female social interactions with males linked functionally with synaptic plasticity and learning processes. This network is positively correlated with female preference behaviour in the female mate choice species, but appears inhibited in the male coercive species. This behavioural genomics approach provides opportunity to elucidate the fundamental building blocks, and evolutionary dynamics, of sexual selection.
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Santangelo, Nick. "Sex Differences in the Mate Selection Process Of the Monogamous, Biparental Convict Cichlid, Archocentrus Nigrofasciatum." Behaviour 141, no. 8 (2004): 1041–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539042360125.

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AbstractCompared to polygynous species, monogamous males and females are considered more similar in their mate choosiness, yet few studies have explored the mate selection process between the sexes. Here, we examined this mate selection process in the monogamous convict cichlid, Archocentrus nigrofasciatus. We presented an individual (i.e. the selector) of each sex with a choice of two alternative, visually and tactilely isolated, mates. Tanks were video taped each day until the selector fish spawned with one of the potential mates (i.e. the accepted mate). The number of visits, length of visits, and courtship interactions were recorded. Selecting females spent significantly more time with accepted versus rejected males (i.e. females expressed a time-based preference for their chosen males), but there was no significant difference in the number of visits made to either male. Selecting females did not court accepted and rejected males differently, but rejected males courted at a significantly higher rate than did accepted males. Although selecting females expressed a time-based preference for accepted males, they continued to visit and court rejected males throughout the mate choice process; thus females did not terminate their selection process until they spawned. In contrast to selecting females, selecting males did not spend a significantly different amount of time with accepted and rejected females while visiting both females equally. Furthermore, selecting males courted accepted females significantly more than they courted rejected females. Thus, males expressed their mate preferences through courtship whereas females expressed them through time spent. Males also courted more than females. Many of these sex differences curiously resemble those of a polygynous social system, which we suggest perhaps indicates polygynous ancestral origins.
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Backwell, P. R. Y., and M. D. Jennions. "Mate choice in the Neotropical frog, Hyla ebraccata: sexual selection, mate recognition and signal selection." Animal Behaviour 45, no. 6 (June 1993): 1248–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1993.1150.

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McLean, Claire A., Richard A. Bartle, Caroline M. Dong, Katrina J. Rankin, and Devi Stuart-Fox. "Divergent male and female mate preferences do not explain incipient speciation between lizard lineages." Current Zoology 66, no. 5 (March 12, 2020): 485–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa010.

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Abstract Diversification in sexual signals is often taken as evidence for the importance of sexual selection in speciation. However, in order for sexual selection to generate reproductive isolation between populations, both signals and mate preferences must diverge together. Furthermore, assortative mating may result from multiple behavioral mechanisms, including female mate preferences, male mate preferences, and male–male competition; yet their relative contributions are rarely evaluated. Here, we explored the role of mate preferences and male competitive ability as potential barriers to gene flow between 2 divergent lineages of the tawny dragon lizard, Ctenophorus decresii, which differ in male throat coloration. We found stronger behavioral barriers to pairings between southern lineage males and northern lineage females than between northern males and southern females, indicating incomplete and asymmetric behavioral isolating barriers. These results were driven by both male and female mate preferences rather than lineage differences in male competitive ability. Intrasexual selection is therefore unlikely to drive the outcome of secondary contact in C. decresii, despite its widely acknowledged importance in lizards. Our results are consistent with the emerging view that although both male and female mate preferences can diverge alongside sexual signals, speciation is rarely driven by divergent sexual selection alone.
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South, Scott J. "Sociodemographic Differentials in Mate Selection Preferences." Journal of Marriage and the Family 53, no. 4 (November 1991): 928. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/352998.

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김동수, JungTaeYun, and Myhyeong Park. "Study of Mate selection and satisfaction." Korean Journal of Woman Psychology 14, no. 3 (September 2009): 305–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18205/kpa.2009.14.3.001.

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Grover, Kelly J., Candyce S. Russell, Walter R. Schumm, and Lois A. Paff-Bergen. "Mate Selection Processes and Marital Satisfaction." Family Relations 34, no. 3 (July 1985): 383. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/583577.

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Graves, Jeff, and Richard W. Byrne. "Mate selection: The wrong control group." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12, no. 3 (September 1989): 527–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00057447.

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Buss, David M. "Mate selection for good parenting skills." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14, no. 3 (September 1991): 520–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00071107.

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Hedrick, Phil, and Volker Loeschcke. "MHC and mate selection in humans?" Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11, no. 1 (January 1996): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(96)80237-0.

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Furnham, Adrian. "Sex differences in mate selection preferences." Personality and Individual Differences 47, no. 4 (September 2009): 262–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.013.

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Kaye, Kenneth. "Mate Selection and Family Business Success." Family Business Review 12, no. 2 (June 1999): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1999.00107.x.

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An index of a family's success is the caliber of talent it manages to attract and retain through marriage. This fundamental fact in sociology, anthropology, and history has received little attention in the family business field. Parents in Western societies have two windows of opportunity to enhance long-term family success through marriage: first, before their children reach puberty, and later, after they choose spouses for themselves.
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Richardson, R. H., and D. A. Vasco. "Habitat and mate selection in HawaiianDrosophila." Behavior Genetics 17, no. 6 (November 1987): 571–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01065533.

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Whissell, Cynthia. "Mate selection in popular women’s fiction." Human Nature 7, no. 4 (December 1996): 427–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02732902.

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Brown, Stephanie L., and Brian P. Lewis. "Relational dominance and mate-selection criteria." Evolution and Human Behavior 25, no. 6 (November 2004): 406–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.003.

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Moore, Allen J., and Patricia J. Moore. "Balancing sexual selection through opposing mate choice and male competition." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 266, no. 1420 (April 7, 1999): 711–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1999.0694.

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Sanchez, Leopoldo, Miguel Angel Toro, and Carlos García. "Improving the Efficiency of Artificial Selection: More Selection Pressure With Less Inbreeding." Genetics 151, no. 3 (March 1, 1999): 1103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/151.3.1103.

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Abstract The use of population genetic variability in present-day selection schemes can be improved to reduce inbreeding rate and inbreeding depression without impairing genetic progress. We performed an experiment with Drosophila melanogaster to test mate selection, an optimizing method that uses linear programming to maximize the selection differential applied while at the same time respecting a restriction on the increase in inbreeding expected in the next generation. Previous studies about mate selection used computer simulation on simple additive genetic models, and no experiment with a real character in a real population had been carried out. After six selection generations, the optimized lines showed an increase in cumulated phenotypic selection differential of 10.76%, and at the same time, a reduction of 19.91 and 60.47% in inbreeding coefficient mean and variance, respectively. The increased selection pressure would bring greater selection response, and in fact, the observed change in the selected trait was on average 31.03% greater in the optimized lines. These improvements in the selection scheme were not made at the expense of the long-term expectations of genetic variability in the population, as these expectations were very similar for both mate selection and conventionally selected lines in our experiment.
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Yun, Li, Patrick J. Chen, Kevin E. Kwok, Christopher S. Angell, Howard D. Rundle, and Aneil F. Agrawal. "Competition for mates and the improvement of nonsexual fitness." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 26 (June 11, 2018): 6762–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805435115.

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Competition for mates can be a major source of selection, not just on secondary sexual traits but across the genome. Mate competition strengthens selection on males via sexual selection, which typically favors healthy, vigorous individuals and, thus, all genetic variants that increase overall quality. However, recent studies suggest another major effect of mate competition that could influence genome-wide selection: Sexual harassment by males can drastically weaken selection on quality in females. Because of these conflicting effects, the net effect of mate competition is uncertain, although perhaps not entirely unpredictable. We propose that the environment in which mate competition occurs mediates the importance of sexual selection relative to sexual conflict and, hence, the net effect of mate competition on nonsexual fitness. To test this, we performed experimental evolution with 63 fruit fly populations adapting to novel larval conditions where each population was maintained with or without mate competition. In half the populations with mate competition, adults interacted in simple, high-density environments. In the remainder, adults interacted in more spatially complex environments in which male-induced harm is reduced. Populations evolving with mate competition in the complex environment adapted faster to novel larval environments than did populations evolving without mate competition or with mate competition in the simple environment. Moreover, mate competition in the complex environment caused a substantial reduction in inbreeding depression for egg-to-adult viability relative to the other two mating treatments. These results demonstrate that the mating environment has a substantial and predictable effect on nonsexual fitness through adaptation and purging.
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Chen, Ruoxi, Fred P. Piercy, John K. Miller, and Jason P. Austin. "Chinese and American Individuals’ Mate Selection Pressures: Self-Focused vs. Mate-Focused." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 48, no. 1 (March 2017): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.48.1.97.

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Botwin, Michael D., David M. Buss, and Todd K. Shackelford. "Personality and Mate Preferences: Five Factors In Mate Selection and Marital Satisfaction." Journal of Personality 65, no. 1 (March 1997): 107–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1997.tb00531.x.

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Sommer-Trembo, Carolin, Martin Plath, Jakob Gismann, Claudia Helfrich, and David Bierbach. "Context-dependent female mate choice maintains variation in male sexual activity." Royal Society Open Science 4, no. 7 (July 2017): 170303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170303.

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The existence of individual variation in males' motivation to mate remains a conundrum as directional selection should favour high mating frequencies. Balancing selection resulting from (context-dependent) female mate choice could contribute to the maintenance of this behavioural polymorphism. In dichotomous choice tests, mosquitofish ( Gambusia holbrooki ) females preferred virtual males showing intermediate mating frequencies, reflecting females' tendencies to avoid harassment by highly sexually active males. When tested in the presence of a female shoal—which protects females from male harassment—focal females showed significantly stronger preferences for high sexual activity. A trade-off between (indirect) benefits and (direct) costs of mating with sexually active males probably explains context-dependent female mate choice, as costs depend on the social environment in which females choose their mates. No preference was observed when we tested virgin females, suggesting that the behavioural pattern described here is part of the learned behavioural repertoire of G. holbrooki females.
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Tobler, Michael, Ingo Schlupp, and Martin Plath. "Does divergence in female mate choice affect male size distributions in two cave fish populations?" Biology Letters 4, no. 5 (June 17, 2008): 452–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0259.

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Sexual selection by female choice can maintain male traits that are counter selected by natural selection. Alteration of the potential for sexual selection can thus lead to shifts in the expression of male traits. We investigated female mate choice for large male body size in a fish ( Poecilia mexicana ) that, besides surface streams, also inhabits two caves. All four populations investigated, exhibited an ancestral visual preference for large males. However, only one of the cave populations also expressed this female preference in darkness. Hence, the lack of expression of female preference in darkness in the other cave population leads to relaxation of sexual selection for large male body size. While P. mexicana populations with size-specific female mate choice are characterized by a pronounced male size variation, the absence of female choice in one cave coincides with the absence of large bodied males in that population. Our results suggest that population differences in the potential for sexual selection may affect male trait variation.
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Fowler-Finn, Kasey D., Laura Sullivan-Beckers, Amy M. Runck, and Eileen A. Hebets. "The complexities of female mate choice and male polymorphisms: Elucidating the role of genetics, age, and mate-choice copying." Current Zoology 61, no. 6 (December 1, 2015): 1015–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/czoolo/61.6.1015.

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Abstract Genetic, life history, and environmental factors dictate patterns of variation in sexual traits within and across populations, and thus the action and outcome of sexual selection. This study explores patterns of inheritance, diet, age, and mate-choice copying on the expression of male sexual signals and associated female mate choice in a phenotypically diverse group of Schizocosa wolf spiders. Focal spiders exhibit one of two male phenotypes: ‘ornamented’ males possess large black brushes on their forelegs, and ‘non-ornamented’ males possess no brushes. Using a quantitative genetics breeding design in a mixed population of ornamented/non-ornamented males, we found a strong genetic basis to male phenotype and female choice. We also found that some ornamented males produced some sons with large brushes and others with barely visible brushes. Results of diet manipulations and behavioral mating trials showed no influence of diet on male phenotype or female mate choice. Age post maturation, however, influenced mate choice, with younger females being more likely to mate with ornamented males. A mate-choice copying experiment found that, following observations of another female’s mate choice/copulation, virgin mature females tended to match the mate choice (ornamented vs. non-ornamented males) of the females they observed. Finally, analyses of genetic variation across phenotypically pure (only one male phenotype present) vs. mixed (both phenotypes present) populations revealed genetic distinction between phenotypes in phenotypically-pure populations, but no distinctionin phenotypically-mixed populations. The difference in patterns of genetic differentiation and mating across geographic locations suggests a complex network of factors contributing to the outcome of sexual selection.
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Feyisetan, Bamikale J., and Akinrinola Bankole. "Mate Selection and Fertility in Urban Nigeria." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 22, no. 3 (October 1, 1991): 273–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.22.3.273.

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ZHUANG, Jin-Ying, Jing XU, Sen ZHANG, and Fei YU. "Mate Copying: An Adaptive Sexual Selection Strategy." Advances in Psychological Science 20, no. 10 (June 14, 2013): 1672–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1042.2012.01672.

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Chen, Ruoxi, Jason P. Austin, John K. Miller, and Fred P. Piercy. "Chinese and American Individuals’ Mate Selection Criteria." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 46, no. 1 (September 24, 2014): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022114551793.

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Smith, SP, and K. Hammond. "Portfolio theory, utility theory and mate selection." Genetics Selection Evolution 19, no. 3 (1987): 321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-19-3-321.

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Hanko, Karlene, Sarah Master, and John Sabini. "Some Evidence About Character and Mate Selection." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 30, no. 6 (June 2004): 732–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167204263967.

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Beauchamp, Gary K., and Kunio Yamazaki. "HLA and Mate Selection in Humans: Commentary." American Journal of Human Genetics 61, no. 3 (September 1997): 494–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/515521.

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Sans, M., I. Alvarez, S. M. Callegari-Jacques, and F. M. Salzano. "Genetic similarity and mate selection in Uruguay." Journal of Biosocial Science 26, no. 3 (July 1994): 285–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000021374.

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SummaryIt has been suggested that average genetic similarity, as assessed by blood genetic markers, could influence mate choice in humans. In the present study, average genetic similarity was assessed in 183 couples submitting to paternity determinations in relation to six blood group systems and three HLA loci. Couples in which the putative father was excluded were compared with those in which such exclusion did not occur, and real couples were compared to random pairs. The differences were all statistically non-significant. Possible reasons for the different results found in the previous sample and in the present study are considered.
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Sepehri, Safoora, and Fatemeh Bagherian. "Generation and Gender Differences in Mate Selection." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 84 (July 2013): 10–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.500.

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Cotton, Samuel, Jennifer Small, and Andrew Pomiankowski. "Sexual Selection and Condition-Dependent Mate Preferences." Current Biology 16, no. 17 (September 2006): R755—R765. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.022.

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Freed, Leonard A. "Female ornamentation, mate choice and sexual selection." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15, no. 11 (November 2000): 471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5347(00)01920-0.

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BLACKWELL, DEBRA L., and DANIEL T. LICHTER. "Mate Selection Among Married and Cohabiting Couples." Journal of Family Issues 21, no. 3 (April 2000): 275–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019251300021003001.

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Qian, Zhenchao, Jennifer E. Glick, and Christie D. Batson. "Crossing Boundaries: Nativity, Ethnicity, and Mate Selection." Demography 49, no. 2 (February 14, 2012): 651–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0090-3.

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Campbell, Lorne, and Garth JO Fletcher. "Romantic relationships, ideal standards, and mate selection." Current Opinion in Psychology 1 (February 2015): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.01.007.

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Desai, Nisarg, Pawel Fedurek, Katie Slocombe, Adam Clark Arcadi, Lisa O'Bryan, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, and Michael Wilson. "Acoustic properties of chimpanzee pant-hoots reflect male mate quality." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153, no. 3_supplement (March 1, 2023): A186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0018605.

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Sexual selection theory predicts that acoustic structure may provide cues of individual traits correlated with mate quality. Chimpanzee pant-hoots are complex, conspicuous calls that may be products of sexual selection. Insofar as pant-hoots are difficult to produce, requiring individuals to approach their physiological limits of sound production, they may serve as honest signals of physical condition. The highest pitch elements in pant-hoots appear the most difficult elements to produce, as they sometimes exhibit distortions in acoustic structure known as non-linear phenomena (NLP). Producing high pitch vocalizations with fewer NLPs may, thus, signal superior physical condition. We examined whether the proportion of NLPs, the pitch, and noise in these elements of the pant-hoots contain cues of mate quality including age, rank, and a measure of health (infection with the simian immunodeficiency virus, SIVcpz), and if they predict male mating success. Consistent with predictions from sexual selection, we found that (i) the proportion of NLPs was associated with age in a non-linear fashion—specifically, subadult and old males exhibited higher proportions of NLPs compared to males in their prime mating age; (ii) a lower proportion of NLPs predicted higher mating success; and (iii) SIVcpz positive individuals exhibited more noise in their pant-hoots.
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HUNT, JOHN, CASPER J. BREUKER, JENNIFER A. SADOWSKI, and ALLEN J. MOORE. "Male-male competition, female mate choice and their interaction: determining total sexual selection." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, no. 1 (January 2009): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01633.x.

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