An advantage to mate choice in the seaweed fly, Coelopa frigida
- Glenn Crocker, T. Day
- BiologyBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- 1 April 1987
Direct evidence is presented that adults are choosing their mates not only on the basis of αβ genotypes but on other criteria as well, suggesting that the superior reproductive performance of animals allowed a choice of mates may account for the evolutionary origin and continued existence of mate discrimination.