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Data from: Mate preference for a phenotypically plastic trait is learned, and may facilitate preference-phenotype matching

Fixed, genetically determined, mate preferences for species whose adult phenotype varies with rearing environment may be maladaptive, as the phenotype that is most fit in the parental environment may be absent in the offspring environment. Mate preference in species with polyphenisms (environmentally dependent alternative phenotypes) should therefore either not focus on polyphenic traits, be polyphenic themselves, or learned each generation. Here we test these alternative hypotheses by first describing a female-limited seasonal polyphenism in a sexually dimorphic trait in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana, dorsal hindwing spot number (DHSN), and then testing whether male and female mate preferences for this trait exist, and whether they are seasonally polyphenic, or learned. Neither naïve males nor naive females in either seasonal form exhibited mating preferences for DHSN. However, males, but not females, noticed DHSN variation and learned mate preferences for DHSN. These results suggest that individuals may accommodate environmentally dependent variation in morphological traits via learned mate preferences in each generation, and that learned mate preference plasticity can be sexually dimorphic.

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Data from: Does divergent selection predict the evolution of mate preference and reproductive isolation in the tropical butterfly genus Melinaea (Nymphalidae: Ithomiini)?

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publicMar 2019View details →
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Condition-dependent mutual mate preference and intersexual genetic correlations for mating activity

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publicDec 2019View details →
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Data from: Experimental swap of Anopheles gambiae's assortative mating preferences demonstrates key role of X-chromosome divergence island in incipient sympatric speciation.

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publicApr 2016View details →
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Data from: Does meiotic drive alter male mate preference?

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publicSep 2019View details →
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Data from: Experimental confirmation that body size determines mate preference via phenotype matching in a stickleback species pair

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publicDec 2012View details →
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Data from: Learning to speciate: the biased learning of mate preferences promotes adaptive radiation

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publicOct 2015View details →
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Data from: Evolution of inbreeding avoidance and inbreeding preference through mate choice among interacting relatives

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publicAug 2016View details →
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Data from: Mate preference for a phenotypically plastic trait is learned, and may facilitate preference-phenotype matching

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publicFeb 2014View details →
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Data from: Fitness costs of mating with preferred females in a scramble mating system

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publicDec 2018View details →
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Data from: A novel method for estimating the strength of positive mating preference by similarity in the wild

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publicFeb 2018View details →
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Data from: Insect mating signal and mate preference phenotypes covary among host plant genotypes

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publicJan 2015View details →
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Data from: Mating preferences do not maintain the tailspot polymorphism in the platyfish, Xiphophorus variatus

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publicAug 2013View details →
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Data from: Variation in female mate preference in response to eavesdropping "interloper" males

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publicMay 2016View details →
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Data from: Quantitative genetics of female mate preferences in an ancestral and a novel environment

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publicJan 2012View details →
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Data from: Female preference for male courtship effort can drive the evolution of male mate choice

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publicMay 2012View details →
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Data from: Female preference for multi-modal courtship: multiple signals are important for male mating success in peacock spiders

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publicNov 2015View details →
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Data from: No mate preference associated with the supergene controlling social organization in Alpine silver ants

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publicApr 2019View details →
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Data from: Sexual conflict over mating in Gnatocerus cornutus? Females prefer lovers not fighters

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publicMay 2014View details →
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Data from: Age, experience and sex – do female bulb mites prefer young mating partners?

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publicOct 2012View details →

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