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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We consider mating strategies for females who search for males sequentially
    during a season of limited length. We show that the best strategy rejects a given
    male type if encountered before a time-threshold but accepts him after. For frequency-independent
    benefits, we obtain the optimal time-thresholds explicitly for both discrete and
    continuous distributions of males, and allow for mistakes being made in assessing
    the correct male type. When the benefits are indirect (genes for the offspring)
    and the population is under frequency-dependent ecological selection, the benefits
    depend on the mating strategy of other females as well. This case is particularly
    relevant to speciation models that seek to explore the stability of reproductive
    isolation by assortative mating under frequency-dependent ecological selection.
    We show that the indirect benefits are to be quantified by the reproductive values
    of couples, and describe how the evolutionarily stable time-thresholds can be
    found. We conclude with an example based on the Levene model, in which we analyze
    the evolutionarily stable assortative mating strategies and the strength of reproductive
    isolation provided by them.
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author:
- first_name: Tadeas
  full_name: Priklopil, Tadeas
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  last_name: Priklopil
- first_name: Eva
  full_name: Kisdi, Eva
  last_name: Kisdi
- first_name: Mats
  full_name: Gyllenberg, Mats
  last_name: Gyllenberg
citation:
  ama: Priklopil T, Kisdi E, Gyllenberg M. Evolutionarily stable mating decisions
    for sequentially searching females and the stability of reproductive isolation
    by assortative mating. <i>Evolution</i>. 2015;69(4):1015-1026. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12618">10.1111/evo.12618</a>
  apa: Priklopil, T., Kisdi, E., &#38; Gyllenberg, M. (2015). Evolutionarily stable
    mating decisions for sequentially searching females and the stability of reproductive
    isolation by assortative mating. <i>Evolution</i>. Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12618">https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12618</a>
  chicago: Priklopil, Tadeas, Eva Kisdi, and Mats Gyllenberg. “Evolutionarily Stable
    Mating Decisions for Sequentially Searching Females and the Stability of Reproductive
    Isolation by Assortative Mating.” <i>Evolution</i>. Wiley, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12618">https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12618</a>.
  ieee: T. Priklopil, E. Kisdi, and M. Gyllenberg, “Evolutionarily stable mating decisions
    for sequentially searching females and the stability of reproductive isolation
    by assortative mating,” <i>Evolution</i>, vol. 69, no. 4. Wiley, pp. 1015–1026,
    2015.
  ista: Priklopil T, Kisdi E, Gyllenberg M. 2015. Evolutionarily stable mating decisions
    for sequentially searching females and the stability of reproductive isolation
    by assortative mating. Evolution. 69(4), 1015–1026.
  mla: Priklopil, Tadeas, et al. “Evolutionarily Stable Mating Decisions for Sequentially
    Searching Females and the Stability of Reproductive Isolation by Assortative Mating.”
    <i>Evolution</i>, vol. 69, no. 4, Wiley, 2015, pp. 1015–26, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12618">10.1111/evo.12618</a>.
  short: T. Priklopil, E. Kisdi, M. Gyllenberg, Evolution 69 (2015) 1015–1026.
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:21Z
date_published: 2015-02-09T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-22T14:27:30Z
day: '09'
ddc:
- '570'
department:
- _id: NiBa
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.1111/evo.12618
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page: 1015 - 1026
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  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '291734'
  name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme
publication: Evolution
publication_identifier:
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  - 1558-5646
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  - 0014-3820
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publisher: Wiley
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title: Evolutionarily stable mating decisions for sequentially searching females and
  the stability of reproductive isolation by assortative mating
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