Choosy

Choosing a mate: what we really want

...the much choosier of the sexes, leverage their looks for security and commitment. This formula has served humans throughout time, with the model of choosy females reflected in most mammals, Todd and his coauthors write in "Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences," w...

Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling

...al communication. "Conspicuous male sexual signals need not advertise the quality of the signaler as a mate," Christy suggests. "Some may simply allow choosy females to stay safe." ...

Choosy in Biological News

Male seahorses like big mates

...electing a mating partner: to increase their reproductive success. By being choosy and preferring large females, they are likely to have more and bigger eggs,...g differences in courtship behavior between male and female seahorses, with choosy males and indiscriminate females. Male seahorses were highly active and sho...

Turtle doves commit adultery

...k. They recognised the coo as being the coo of a rival. Hybrids are not choosy Den Hartog found that the response of the hybrid males to the coos of the...nimals are not always weaker than their parental species. Hens are more choosy The role of female doves, or hens, is just as important. Their job is to ...

Inheriting a tendency to brain infection

...colleagues have identified a single gene that predisposes individuals to herpes simplex encephalitis, an infectious disease that tends to be extremely choosy about its victims. In a paper published in the September 29, 2006 issue of the journal Science, they describe two young patients who carry mutations i...

Choosy females make colourful males

...on of the Nile perch, deforestation and population growth, water transparency in Lake Victoria is declining. In turbid water, cichlid females are less choosy and males are less brightly coloured. This research therefore underlines the importance of measures to counteract the ongoing eutrophication of the la...

Neuronal cell cultures kept on the straight and narrow

...which make up the central nervous system in mammals, are both particularly important and particularly hard to culture. They are highly specialized and choosy about their environment--normally they only survive and develop when cultured on a layer of non-neuronal "glial" cells that provide cellular support s...

Biologist Discovers What May Be World’s ‘Pickiest?Mates

...ds an average of 23 times before making a final selection. One particularly choosy crab visited 106 male burrows, fully entering 15 of them, during her one ho...iss the peak tides. This research provides one of the first examples of how choosy resource selection can help offspring survivorship.?/p> Male fiddler crab...