Two main theories of female mate choice, that females either pick the best from the n closest males (best-of-n) or the closest with some minimum quality (min-threshold), make different behavioral predictions in some cases, yet both are supported by biological data. We present a computational agent-based model that is well-suited for investigating the differences between the two strategies for the biological model organism Hyla versicolor ("gray treefrog"). We show, based on results from systematic simulation studies, that min-threshold overall is the dominant strategy, even though best-of-n has some areas in parameter space where it dominates min-threshold. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.
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Scheutz, M., Harris, J., & Boyd, S. K. (2010). How to pick the right one: Investigating tradeoffs among female mate choice strategies in treefrogs. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6226 LNAI, pp. 618–627). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_58
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