Assortative mating (also referred to as positive assortative mating or homogamy) is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals...

Disassortative mating (also known as negative assortative mating or heterogamy) is a mating pattern in which individuals with dissimilar phenotypes mate with one...

animals in mating behavior, as in the case of animal sexual behavior in general and assortative mating in particular. Research on human mating strategies...

individuals (positive assortative mating) or dissimilar individuals (negative assortative mating) to mate.[2] Hence, potential mates have an equal chance...

progeny (see mating systems). For animals, mating strategies include random mating, disassortative mating, assortative mating, or a mating pool. In some...

is an illustrated causal link between the changes in educational assortative mating and earnings or income inequality. Modern studies have posited a possible...

(2004): 571-578. Wood, T. K., & Keese, M. C. (1990). Host-plant-induced assortative mating in Enchenopa treehoppers. Evolution, 619-628. Stearns, F. W., Tilmon...

Adenoviridae, Simian virus 40, Vaccinia virus, and Reoviridae. Assortative mating – Preferential mating pattern between individuals with similar phenotypes Dating...

a mate with at least as high a level of education in order to maximize their potential income. Another incentive for this kind of assortative mating lies...

tend to select mates of the same ethnicity, social class, personality traits, and educational level, a phenomenon known as assortative mating, during the...

to the possession of two exact formats of that gene. Assortative mating is the choosing of a mate to breed with based on their physical characteristics...

variants that evolve through assortative mating into separate races and then species. Assortative mating most easily occurs if mating is linked to niche preference...

penalty for those individuals who do not mate assortatively and a mechanism that causes assortative mating has to evolve in the population. For example...

Norway) cultures. Mate choice in humans Assortative mating Stone, Shackelford, & Buss (2008) Socioeconomic Development and Shifts in Mate Preferences. Evolutionary...

a decrease in assortative marriages. This leads him to question if this trend will continue. Mare's first article on assortative mating was published...

Kim, B. & Park, F. C. "Size-assortative mating and sexual size dimorphism are predictable from simple mechanics of mate-grasping behavior". BMC Evolutionary...

Ornborg; M. Andersson (1998). "Ultraviolet sexual dimorphism and assortative mating in blue tits". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 265 (1395): 445–450...

incorporated assortative mating patterns into a bivariate model was used to account for height-to-intelligence factors that related to these mating habits as...

evolutionary influences. These influences include genetic drift, mate choice, assortative mating, natural selection, sexual selection, mutation, gene flow,...

Homophily between mated pairs in animals has been extensively studied in the field of evolutionary biology, where it is known as assortative mating. Homophily...

Double-pair mating (DPM) is a mating (crossing) design used in plant breeding. Each individual is mated with two others. In Fig. 1 a connected variant...

Purifying selection can be split into purging by non-random mating (assortative mating) and purging by genetic drift. Purging by genetic drift can remove...

to emit chemical cues to recognize members of their own species. Assortative mating Sexual selection "How do animals recognise other members of their...

between smaller individuals to be sperm donors. This mechanism of size-assortative mating is common among gastropods. The scarcity of natural predators for...

Rnborg, J; Andersson, M (1998). "Ultraviolet sexual dimorphism and assortative mating in blue tits". Proc Biol Sci. 265 (1395): 445–450. doi:10.1098/rspb...

predisposition, in the cause of autism. In 2006, Baron-Cohen proposed the assortative mating theory which states that if individuals with a systemizing or "type...

Shockley 1973, "Deviations from Hardy-Weinberg Frequencies Caused by Assortative Mating in Hybrid Populations" Shockley 1974, "Eugenic, or Anti-Dysgenic,...

locus A {\displaystyle A} or a {\displaystyle a} (the assortive mating alleles) have an effect on mating pattern but is not under direct selection. If selection...

species, or within a given population of a species, as a result of assortative mating and natural and sexual selection, in order to prevent breeding among...

the past. Koinophilia differs from the "like prefers like" mating pattern of assortative mating. If like preferred like, leucistic animals (such as white...