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When I was writing my book, Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose their Mates, I learned from a male researcher that patriarchy was so much a part of academe that even what female rats and mice did was not considered important. Book dated but science OK.
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Body condition and acoustic noise modify female responses to uni and multimodal signals emitted by a male-mimicking robot frog
#MateChoice #Frog

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#WomenInSTEM #matechoice #evobio #behavior #fish

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Time spares no male 🪲⏳
Kikuchi & Matsumura show that female red flour beetles prefer younger males. As males age, their olfactory attractiveness declines—contrasting with studies that emphasize advantages of older males in intra-sexual competition. #MateChoice
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Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From? Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America

Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#wolf🐺 #color🎨 #genetics🧬 #CanineDistemperVirus🦠 #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-ye...

"Recent Paradigms of Human Mate Selection: A Brain–Behavior Perspective"
Link: www.mdpi.com/2673-9976/42...

@mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social @ethophilia.bsky.social
#humanbehaviour #mateselection #matechoice #confusion #humanmatechoice #humanmateselection #partnerselection #partnerchoice

My #PhDthesis is now fully published! 🥳
Check out my last publication in Agricultural and Forest Entomology.
We investigated #matechoice in Sirex noctilio and the effect of age an size on #matingsuccess.

Birds in love produce more babies, study shows

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social via #Substack

#birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #MateChoice #love❤️ #behavior #evolution #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/birds-in-l...

Mosaic Evolution Generates Patches Of Vivid Colors In The Lories How to balance the evolutionary demands between being extremely colorful and attractive to potential mates whilst also being camouflaged from predators?

Mosaic Evolution Generates Patches Of Vivid Colors In The Lories

by @grrlscientist.bsky.social via #Substack 

#parrots🦜 #color #evolution #ecology #MateChoice #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/mosaic-evo...

a small bird with a red beak is perched on a branch in a cage . ALT: a small bird with a red beak is perched on a branch in a cage .

Colorful network: pair-bonding temporal dynamics involve sexual signals and impact reproduction
#Bird #MateChoice #MaleFemaleInteractions

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study: 1 Schoof, Valérie & Jack, Katharine & Ziegler, Toni. (2014). Male response to female ovulation in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus): variation in Testosterone, DHT, and glucocorticoid production.. International Journal of Primatology. Early View. image: <a href="https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/close-up-portrait-seductive-couple-tropical-garden-beautifyl-blond-woman-hat-boho-outfit-hugging-with-her-handsome-boyfriend-summer-romantic-moments_27122261.htm#fromView=image_search_similar&page=2&position=40&uuid=e4d213b7-a2a2-4b7d-9558-ebb244ffde88&query=sexy+couple+out+and+about">Image by svetlanasokolova on Freepik</a>

Why do females prefer high-Testosterone males?

In non-human primates, higher T-levels signal strength, dominance, and top-tier genetics—making them prime mates. [1]

💪🐒 #Evolution #MateChoice

study 1. Welling LL, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Conway CA, Law Smith MJ, Little AC, Feinberg DR, Sharp MA, Al-Dujaili EA. Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces. Horm Behav. 2007 Aug;52(2):156-61. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.01.010. Epub 2007 Apr 24. PMID: 17559852. . image<a href="https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/close-up-portrait-hipster-couple-brutal-bearded-male-sunglasses-his-girlfriend-dressed-jeans-jackets-against-skyscraper_27645966.htm#fromView=image_search_similar&page=1&position=27&uuid=e4d213b7-a2a2-4b7d-9558-ebb244ffde88&query=sexy+couple+out+and+about">Image by fxquadro on Freepik</a>

Wondering how Testosterone affects mate choice?

Women with higher Testosterone levels are more attracted to men with strong, masculine faces. Science confirms it—chemistry isn’t just a feeling, it’s in your hormones! [1] 😉

#Attraction #MateChoice #Science

Physical attractiveness outweighs intelligence in daughters’ and parents’ mate choices Women and their parents report that intelligence is more important than physical attractiveness in a long-term partner, yet when forced to choose, they both favor a more attractive mate—even when the...

Physical attractiveness outweighs intelligence in daughters’ and parents’ mate choices #Science #Psychology #Other #MateChoice #Attractiveness #EvolutionaryPsychology

Serotonin inhibits sexual receptivity in female cichlid fish Serotonin is involved in multiple diverse and complex biological processes. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are often used to test this, and fluoxetine, a commonly detected SSRI in aquatic ecosystems from pharmaceutical pollution, has been found to disrupt important behaviours and functions in organisms exposed to the antidepressant. Increased serotonin generally has an inhibitory effect on sexual behaviour and decreased serotonin has a facilitatory effect, however in the few existing studies on fish, either no effect or the opposite effect have been reported in females, with most studies focusing on male behaviour. The present research aims to examine the role of the serotonin pathway in female sexual receptivity in the cichlid fish Nyassachromis cf. microcephalus . The sexual dimorphism and lekking system of this species, where male-male competition is aggressive and female choice is important, make them an important and interesting evolutionary system. Serotonin levels were modulated using fluoxetine and after a three-week exposure to their respective treatments (control - 0μg/L, low ecologically relevant dose - 0.54μg/L, high dose - 5.4μg/L), female sexual receptivity to male courtship was measured in a simulated lek mating arena where multiple males were presented simultaneously. Sexual receptivity was inhibited in females exposed to a high dose of fluoxetine. This behaviour change due to a disruption of the serotonin pathway could affect sexual selection in the long term, and in the short term highlights the potential for pollution to affect aquatic life by directly altering mating behaviour. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

Something for the weekend... our preprint on how SSRI treatment inhibits female response to male courtship in a cichlid fish.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.09.632154

https://youtu.be/XTae0V5eL_A

#FishSci #SSRI #serotonin #EcoTox #TeamFish #Zoology #Behaviour #MateChoice

Mate choice copying in females? Learning a new topic in an interesting talk by Arezo Shamsgovara at #asabwinter2024
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I'm excited to share 2 publications of our work on #Inbreeding in #DamaralandMolerats!
1/2 Through cross-fostering & #MateChoice experiments, we show that #KinRecognition for #IncestAvoidance is based on association in early life, not genetic similarity #OpenAcces #ProcRSocB: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...