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T1  - What determines sex roles in mate searching? 
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UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00090.x; http://hdl.handle.net/1975/5926 
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A1  - Kokko, Hanna; Wong, Bob B M 
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AB  - In a seminal paper, Hammerstein and Parker (1987) described how sex roles in mate searching can be frequency dependent: the need for one sex to perform mate searching is diminished when the opposite sex takes on the greater searching effort. Intriguingly, this predicts that females are just as likely to search as males, despite a higher potential reproductive rate by the latter sex. This prediction, however, is not supported by data: male mate searching prevails in nature. Counterexamples also e... 
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KW  - Animals; *Appetitive Behavior; Female; Male; Models, Biological; *Sex Characteristics; Sexual Behavior, Animal/*physiology; Spermatozoa/*physiology; mate search; sex roles; sperm competition; multiple mating; pheromone 
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