#matechoice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #matechoice, aggregated by home.social.
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Unravelling mate choice mysteries: Using water striders, Malik et al. show how analyzing multiple traits across mating stages reveals which sex truly controls copulation.
Read here!
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Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
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Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
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Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
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Mitchell et al. reveal the first evidence of chemical mate choice copying in Drosophila. Females exposed to pheromone cues from mated flies prefer males chosen by others, showing that social learning in flies extends beyond visual cues.
Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736329#drosophila #pheremone #mate #flies #socialLearning #mateChoice
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Birds in love produce more babies, study shows
“A study finds that birds who freely choose their own mates have 37% more offspring than those which were paired up by researchers in a sort of avian ‘arranged marriage’”
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#birds #ornithology #MateChoice #love #behavior #evolution #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/birds-in-love-produce-more-babies
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Birds in love produce more babies, study shows
“A study finds that birds who freely choose their own mates have 37% more offspring than those which were paired up by researchers in a sort of avian ‘arranged marriage’”
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#birds #ornithology #MateChoice #love #behavior #evolution #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/birds-in-love-produce-more-babies
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Mosaic Evolution Generates Patches Of Vivid Colors In The Lories
“How to balance the evolutionary demands between being extremely colorful and attractive to potential mates whilst also being camouflaged from predators?”
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#parrots🦜 #color #evolution #ecology #MateChoice #SciComm🧪 https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/mosaic-evolution-generates-patches
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Something for the weekend... our preprint on how SSRI treatment inhibits female response to male courtship in a cichlid fish.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.09.632154
#FishSci #SSRI #serotonin #EcoTox #TeamFish #Zoology #Behaviour #MateChoice
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#introduction I’m Anne, Professor in #neuroscience at Fribourg University. In our #Drosophila lab, we work on neuronal circuits for reproductive behavior and acoustic communication, sex differences of the nervous system and the signaling function of seminal fluid. I like #arthopods #sexualselection #matechoice #spermcompetition #microscopy and #connectomics
Used to work with #zebrafish #development #axonguidance
Also teaching and keen on #embryology and #histology for medical students... -
Hi everyone!
I am a Senior Lecturer in #SilwoodPark at #ImperialCollegeLondon. I am interested how social behaviours (#MateChoice, SexualSelection, #sociality) and #LifeHistory traits (#ageing, reproductive traits) evolve in birds. I've also published on #WomenInScience. I use #quantitativegenetics to better understand how #phenotypes are governed by #genetic architecture.
I have too many #pets, I like #hiking, #birding, #moths, and #fungi.
Will follow you back - toot!
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Published ahead of print! #AssortativeMating in an Ecological Context: Effects of #MateChoice Errors and Relative #Species Abundance on the Frequency and Asymmetry of #Hybridization by Qvarnström et al. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722156
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Hi Mastodon!
I'm Lars Penke, full professor for Biological Personality Psychology at the University of Göttingen.
I work on the biological foundations of #personality, #intelligence and other individual differences, be it #genetics #hormones #neuroscience or #evolution. I also study the interplay of personality and #social #relationships, especially #matechoice #romantic relationships and #sexuality. I'm interested in #OpenScience and #MetaScience.
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Why do so many couples look alike? It is tempting to immediately interpret this pattern of assortative mating as resulting from preferences. This paper gives a very complete review of alternative explanations. #science #biology #matechoice #homogamy #convergence #stratification
📄 Versluys et al (2021) Why do we pick similar mates, or do we? Biology Letters 17:20210463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0463 -
Too hot to dance? Trade-off between sexual attractiveness and risk of overheating in fiddler #crab. #science #biology #sexualselection #matechoice #temperature #heat #courtship
📄 Darnell et al. (2020) Balancing risk and reward: mating opportunity influences thermal refuge use in fiddler crabs. Animal Behaviour 169:51–56 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.08.013 -
Rejection of the hypothesis of #convergence in physical appearance between spouse. #science #similarity #marriage #matechoice #sexualpreference #sexualselection
📄 Tea-makorn & Kosinski (2020) Spouses' faces are similar but do not become more similar with time. Scientific Reports 10:17001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73971-8