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Response to Comment on “Female toads engaging in adaptive hybridization prefer high-quality heterospecifics as mates”

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: contend that we did not account for survival, but we did. Differential survival does not alter our conclusions, which were also robust to removing anomalous families. They ignore the study system's natural history justifying our fitness measures, while failing to account for our behavioral data. We stand by our conclusion that females adaptively choose among heterospecific males.

Source: Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.abd5373

Authors: Catherine Chen, Karin S. Pfennig

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Directorate for Biological Sciences, Directorate for STEM Education

Awards: Behavioral Dysfunction and the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation between Species, Graduate research Fellowship Program (GRFP)