disassortative mating


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Noun1.disassortative mating - mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating
mating, pairing, sexual union, union, coupling, conjugation - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
assortative mating - mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating
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Disassortative mating in tristylous Eichhornia paniculata (Pontederiaceae).
Genetic markers in plant evolutionary ecology
The observed nonrandom visit orders would result in disassortative mating between corolla color phenotypes of nonmodel deceptively pollinated species.
In conclusion, these laboratory studies show that the initial sampling behavior of pollinators visiting deceptive species that do not mimic any other rewarding species could induce negative FDS and disassortative mating on corolla color phenotypes within a plant population.
Negative frequency-dependent selection by pollinators on artificial flowers without rewards
Ploidy, however, does not affect the theoretical dynamics of tristylous populations because, with only two alleles per locus and strong disassortative mating among morphs, autotetraploid tristyly loci effectively behave as diploid loci (Heuch and Lie 1985; Eckert and Barrett 1992).
The rates of self-fertilization (s), disassortative mating among morphs (d), and year-to-year survival (I) were set to values likely for populations of species like L.
Genetic drift and founder effect in native versus introduced populations of an invading plant, Lythrum salicaria (Lythraceae)
Fisher (1941, 1944) first suggested that disassortative mating among style morphs in tristylous plant populations should lead to a single equilibrium with the three morphs at equal frequencies.
Style morph ratios in tristylous Decodon verticillatus (Lythraceae): selection vs. historical contingency
The morph ratio in populations of tristylous species is governed by an interaction between frequency-dependent selection due to disassortative mating and stochastic processes.
Population structure and morph-specific fitness differences in tristylous Lythrum salicaria
If females were choosing males to increase their offspring viability, then disassortative mating with respect to karyotype would be observed.
Genetic correlation between a female mating preference and the preferred male character in seaweed flies (Coelopa frigida)
Theoretical models indicate that all three morphs should occur at equal frequency within populations, because they are maintained by frequency-dependent selection due to strong disassortative mating among the morphs (Charlesworth, 1979; Heuch, 1979; Barrett et al., 1987; Barrett et al., 1989).
Effective population size and genetic drift in tristylous Eichhornia paniculata (Pontederiaceae)

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