ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2017
Optimizing mating encounters by sexually dimorphic movements.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Sexually Dimorphic Regulation of Behavioral States by Dopamine inThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
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- The optimal movement patterns for mating encounters with sexually asymmetric detection ranges.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Optimizing mating encounters by sexually dimorphic movements.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
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Abstract
All organisms with sexual reproduction undergo a process of mating, which essentially involves the encounter of two individuals belonging to different sexes. During mate search, both sexes should mutually optimize their encounters, thus raising a question of how they achieve this. Here, we show that a population with sexually dimorphic movement patterns achieves the highest individual mating success under a limited lifespan. Extensive simulations found and analytical approximations corroborated the existence of conditions under which sexual dimorphism in the movement patterns (i.e. how diffusively they move) is advantageous over sexual monomorphism. Mutual searchers with limited lifespans need to balance the speed and accuracy of finding their mates, and dimorphic movements can solve this trade-off. We further demonstrate that the sexual dimorphism can evolve from an initial sexually monomorphic population. Our results emphasize the importance of considering mutual optimization in problems of random search.
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