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Behavioral Ecology Advance Access originally published online on June 4, 2009
Behavioral Ecology 2009 20(4):908-911; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp073
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Mate choice copying and mate quality bias: different processes, different species

Antonios Vakirtzis and S. Craig Roberts

School of Biological Sciences, Crown Street, University of Liverpool, L69 7BX Liverpool, UK

Address correspondence to S.C. Roberts. E-mail: craig.roberts@liverpool.ac.uk.

Received 13 March 2009; revised 30 April 2009; accepted 3 May 2009.

Key words: evolutionary psychology, mate choice, mating skew, serial monogamy.

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   WHAT IS MATE QUALITY BIAS?
 
Nonindependent mate choice occurs when a female is influenced in her choices by the actions of other females (Westneat et al. 2000Go). Mate choice copying is a form of nonindependent mate choice in which the probability of a male being selected as a mate increases if he has previously mated with another female and decreases if he has previously been rejected (Dugatkin 1992Go; Pruett-Jones 1992Go; Witte and Ueding 2003Go). Mate choice copying may evolve for 2, not mutually exclusive, reasons (Gibson and Höglund 1992Go). First, it could serve as a shortcut strategy whereby a female avoids the costs of active mate choice like time, energy, and predation risk (e.g., Pomiankowski 1987Go; Reynolds and Gross 1990Go), by observing and imitating the actions of other females that have paid the costs of active mate choice and are presumably making relatively successful mating decisions (Pomiankowski 1990Go. . . [Full Text of this Article]


   CONDITIONS FAVORING MATE QUALITY BIAS
 

   STUDYING MATE QUALITY BIAS
 

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