Abstract:Copepods, the most abundant metazoans in the oceans, exhibit sexual selection through mate choice. Mate choice may depend on resource and mate availability, mate quality, and the ability of an individual to assess potential mates. We measured the relative strength of mate choice for body size in male and female individuals of the copepod species Acartia tonsa and Acartia hudsonica as a function of food availability, encounter time, and previous social experience with the same and opposite sex. Mate choice in A… Show more
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