ASSORTATIVE MATING BASED ON PHENOTYPE: I. TWO ALLELES WITH DOMINANCE

Abstract

I N animals with separate sexes several traits are known to induce some sort of preference for mating between similar individuals (assortment) or preference for mating between dissimilar individuals (disassortment) . Assorting, for example, is known to occur in certain bird, mammal (man included) and insect populations.