Mate choice strategies in a spatially-explicit model environment

2018

Journal: PLOS ONE
Publisher: Public Library of Science
Volume: 13
Pages: 1--25

Giordano B. S. Ferreira AND Matthias Scheutz AND Sunny K. Boyd

We developed a biologically plausible agent-based model to investigate two common mate choice rules that may be used by female gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolor). Our results showed that females using the minimum-threshold strategy found higher quality males and traveled shorter distances on average, compared with females using best-of-n strategy. However, depending on the average quality of the male population, females using the minimum-threshold strategy found fewer mates.

@article{ferreiraetal18plosone,
  title={Mate choice strategies in a spatially-explicit model environment},
  author={Giordano B. S. Ferreira AND Matthias Scheutz AND Sunny K. Boyd},
  year={2018},
  month={08},
  journal={PLOS ONE},
  publisher={Public Library of Science},
  volume={13},
  pages={1--25}
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/ferreiraetal18plosone.pdf}
  doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0202680}
}