Females with Attractive Mates Gain Environmental Benefits That Increase Lifetime and Multigenerational Fitness.

• Tác giả: Daniel T Baldassarre, Douglas G Barron, Patrick A Carter, Jordan Karubian, Willow R Lindsay, Hubert Schwabl, Michael S Webster
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 011.6241 *General bibliographies of works for specific kinds of users and libraries
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : The American naturalist , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 199216

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AbstractResolving the degree to which environmental (direct) versus genetic (indirect) benefits shape female mate choice is a long-standing challenge, particularly for socially monogamous species where male environmental and genetic contributions are difficult to disentangle. This study combines long-term population monitoring with quantitative genetic analyses in a socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous Australian songbird to demonstrate that female mating preferences are driven by nongenetic environmental benefits that increase the fitness of both the female and her offspring. Male Red-backed Fairywrens (