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Alternative Mating Tactics

Alternative Mating Tactics is a reproductive strategy in which individuals of the same sex and species adopt distinct, often conditional, behaviors to secure matings, differing from the dominant tactic by exploiting alternative pathways to reproductive success.

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Alternative Mating Strategies

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Alternative reproductive strategies and tactics: diversity within sexes

Mart R. Gross · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1996 · 1.7K citations

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The rock–paper–scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies

Barry Sinervo, Curtis M. Lively · Nature · 1996 · 1.6K citations

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Male horn dimorphism in the scarab beetle, Onthophagus taurus: do alternative reproductive tactics favour alternative phenotypes?

Armin P. Moczek, Douglas J. Emlen · Animal Behaviour · 2000 · 433 citations

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Genetic polymorphism for alternative mating behaviour in lekking male ruff Philomachus pugnax

David B. Lank, Constance M. Smith, Olivier Hanotte et al. · Nature · 1995 · 379 citations

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Testosterone, Endurance, and Darwinian Fitness: Natural and Sexual Selection on the Physiological Bases of Alternative Male Behaviors in Side-Blotched Lizards

Barry Sinervo, Donald B. Miles, W. Anthony Frankino et al. · Hormones and Behavior · 2000 · 376 citations

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Authors

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  1. OR
    Oscar Ríos-Cárdenas

    Instituto de Ecología, Mexico

    9 publications · 256 citations

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  2. MR
    Molly R. Morris

    Ohio University, United States

    8 publications · 242 citations

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  3. MS
    Matthew S. Grober

    Georgia State University, United States

    7 publications · 304 citations

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  4. LW
    Leigh W. Simmons

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    7 publications · 777 citations

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  5. JL
    Joseph L. Tomkins

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    7 publications · 651 citations

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Institutions

361

  1. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    12 h-index

    24 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    10 h-index

    11 publications

    534 citations

  3. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    10 h-index

    27 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. Instituto de Ecología

    Xalapa, Mexico

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    370 citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    866 citations

  6. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    10 h-index

    18 publications

    853 citations

  7. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    9 h-index

    22 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    8 h-index

    23 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. Behavioral Ecology

    43 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. Animal Behaviour

    40 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    29 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. Ethology

    14 publications · 353 citations

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