Mating Systems

Stephen M Shuster

doi:10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00022-7

Mating Systems

Stephen M Shuster

Biological Sciences

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Abstract

A quantitative approach to mating system analysis emphasizes the measurement of sex differences in the variance in relative fitness, as well as genetic correlations that may arise among breeding pairs. Such information allows mating systems to be classified using data commonly available from ecological, life history, and behavioral analyses. This empirical framework for the study of mating systems stresses quantification of the evolutionary forces responsible for male–female differences, an approach that is easier to test and provides less ambiguous answers than current frameworks emphasizing evolutionary outcomes predicted by optimality theory or sex differences in parental investment.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	2266-2273
Number of pages	8
Volume	1-5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080454054
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00022-7
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

Keywords

Fitness variance
Genetic correlations
Good genes
I
Mate numbers
Opportunity for selection
Sex differences
Sex ratio
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual selection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Environmental Science

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