Can sexual selection and disassortative mating contribute to the maintenance of a shell color polymorphism in an intertidal marine snail?

Littorina fabalis is an intertidal snail commonly living on the brown algae Fucus vesiculosus and showing frequent shell-color polymorphisms in the wild. The evolutionary mechanism underlying this polymorphism is currently unknown. Shell color variation was studied in mated and non-mated specimens o...

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Published in:	Current Zoology
Main Author:	E. ROLÁN-ALVAREZ, M.SAURA, A. P. DIZ, M. J. RIVAS, M. ALVAREZ, B. Cortés, A. de COO, D. ESTÉVEZ, L. IGLESIAS
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford University Press 2012-06-01
Subjects:	Fitness estimate Mate choice Mate propensity Negative assortative mating Sexual selection Frequency-dependent selection
Online Access:	http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12047

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