Search for dissertations about: "mate-choice"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the word mate-choice.
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1. Chemical Communication and Mate Choice : Investigations into the Meaning of a Fruit Fly Pheromone
Abstract : Chemical signals are the most widely used form of sexual communication throughout the living world. However, there is in general little knowledge about what these signals actually communicate. The role of chemical signals, i.e. READ MORE
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2. The Evolution of Sexually Homologous Ornaments : Selection via Male Mate Choice Coinciding with Male-Male Competition in a Neotropical Mosquito
Abstract : The evolution of elaborate male ornaments via sexual selection is well-understood while the selective pressures acting on female ornaments remains unresolved. Female ornaments in species with strong sexual selection on the male homologue of the ornament were originally thought to result from an intersexual genetic correlation. READ MORE
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3. Genetic Aspects of Sexual Selection and Mate Choice in Salmonids
Abstract : The long-term genetic consequences of supportive breeding programs are not well understood. Nevertheless, stocking populations with hatchery-produced fish to compensate for losses of natural production are common practice, for example after constructions of hydroelectric power dams. READ MORE
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4. Mallard ducks : mate choice and breeding success
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5. Mutual Mate Choice in the Deep Snouted Pipefish Syngnathus typhle
Abstract : This thesis integrates the fields of sexual selection, parental investment and sex role theory by investigating mutual mate choice and mate competition in the sex role reversed deep snouted pipefish Syngnathus typhle (Pisces: Syngnathidae) through a series of laboratory experiments. In S. READ MORE