Choosing a Mate in a Cocktail Party-Like Situation: The Effect of Call Complexity and Call Timing between Two Rival Males on Female Mating Preferences in the Túngara FrogPhysalaemus pustulosus

Ethology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 121 (8) ◽  
pp. 749-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaida Tárano
Keyword(s):  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Call Timing ◽  
Female Mating Preferences

Audience effect alters male but not female mating preferences

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Plath ◽  
Katja Kromuszczynski ◽  
Ralph Tiedemann
Keyword(s):  
Audience Effect ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Female Mating Preferences

Computer Animations as a Tool in the Study of Mating Preferences

Behaviour ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 135 (8) ◽  
pp. 1137-1159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Bakker ◽  
Reto Künzler
Keyword(s):  
Computer Animation ◽  
Preference Test ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Computer Animations ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
Female Mating Preferences ◽  
Male Signals ◽  
Multiple Male

AbstractThe study of multiple female mating preferences and multiple male signals requires correct and precise measurement of preferences. A review is given of existing preference test paradigms. Non-interactive preference tests using computer animations perfectly fulfil the demands for the study of multiple preferences for visual traits: exclusion of confounding variables, exclusion of variation within and between male pairs, great potential of experimental manipulation of single and combinations of visual traits including behaviour. We give a detailed description for the production of computer animation movies based on commercial software. Finally, we show how computer animations can be properly applied to the testing of mating preferences. In sticklebacks, female mating preferences that were tested in this way agreed with preferences that were measured with other test paradigms.

scholarly journals The evolution of male and female mating preferences inDrosophilaspeciation*

Evolution ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 1759-1773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Yukilevich ◽  
Elizabeth K. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Female Mating Preferences
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