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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Phenotypic polymorphism via mate copying.

Srishti Patil, Sabine Nöbel, Chaitanya S Gokhale

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Srishti PatilDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg 69120, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8150-8831
Sabine NöbelDepartment of Animal Ecology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 06120, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1850-8895
Chaitanya S GokhaleChair for Computational and Theoretical Biology, Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg 97074, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5749-3665

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Classical mate choice theories assume independent decision-making, yet mounting evidence shows that individuals often use social information and copy conspecifics' mate choices, a behavior termed mate copying. While this nonindependent mate choice has been documented across vertebrates and notably in

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Drosophila melanogasterMating Preference, AnimalSexual Behavior, AnimalAnimalsBiological EvolutionFemaleMalePhenotypePolymorphism, Geneticconformityculturemate choicemultiple morphssocial learning

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PMID41730095
PMCPMC12956814

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