Experience matters: females use smell to select experienced males for paternal care.

Mate choice and mating preferences often rely on the information content of signals exchanged between potential partners. In species where a female's reproduction is the terminal event in life it is to be expected that females choose high quality males and assess males using some honest indicat...

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Main Authors: Nichola Fletcher, Ellen J Storey, Magnus Johnson, Donald J Reish, Jörg D Hardege
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/d9c27e90f5b4405db3c2038bea020223
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