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Genetic variation and covariation in male attractiveness and female mating preferences in Drosophila melanogaster.
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- Genetic Variation in Male Mate Choice for Large Females inEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Mating status affects female choice when females are signalers.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- High fat diet alters Drosophila melanogaster sexual behavior and traits: decreased attractiveness and changes in pheromone profiles.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Phenotypic plasticity in female mate choice behavior is mediated by an interaction of direct and indirect genetic effects inEcology and evolution · 2017Article
- Choosiness, a neglected aspect of preference functions: a review of methods, challenges and statistical approaches.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Review
- Hemiclonal analysis of interacting phenotypes in male and female Drosophila melanogaster.BMC evolutionary biology · 2014Article
- Mating status-dependent "choice" in competitive and noncompetitive arenas.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
How mating preferences evolve remains one of the major unsolved mysteries in evolutionary biology. One major impediment to the study of ornament-preference coevolution is that many aspects of the theoretical literature remain loosely connected to empirical data. Theoretical models typically streamline mating preferences by describing preference functions with a single parameter, a modeling convenience that may veil important aspects of preference evolution. Here, we use a high-throughput behavioral assay in Drosophila melanogaster to quantify attractiveness and multiple components of preferences in both males and females. Females varied genetically with respect to how they ranked males in terms of attractiveness as well as the extent to which they discriminated among different males. Conversely, males showed consistent preferences for females, suggesting that D. melanogaster males tend to rank different female phenotypes in the same order in terms of attractiveness. Moreover, we reveal a heretofore undocumented positive genetic correlation between male attractiveness and female choosiness, which is a measure of the variability in a female's response to different male phenotypes. This genetic correlation sets the stage for female choosiness to evolve via a correlated response to selection on male traits and potentially adds a new dimension to the Fisherian sexual selection process.
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