Learning affects mate choice in female fruit flies
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Learning affects mate choice in female fruit flies
Learning in the context of mate choice can influence sexual selection and speciation. Relatively little work, however, has been conducted on the role of learning in the context of mate choice, and this topic has been mostly ignored in insects even though insects have served as a prime model system in research on sexual selection and incipient speciation. Extending recent work indicating apparen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral Ecology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1465-7279,1045-2249
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari057