Free mutual mate preferences in house mice affect reproductive success and offspring performance

By L. C. Drickamer, P. Gowaty, D. Wagner. 2003

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Not only mate choice matters: fitness consequences of social partner choice in female house mice (2008, background): “In the context of mate choice, the occurrence of individual preferences and their impact on fitness, offspring viability and progeny performance has already been intensely studied in house mice ( Drickamer et al. 2000, 2003; Gowaty et al. 2003).”
The efficacy of female choice in chimpanzees of the Taï Forest, Côte d’Ivoire (2006, background): “Laboratory experiments with mice and fish have demonstrated that females mating with preferred compared to nonpreferred partners have higher reproductive success Communicated by D. Watts R. M. Stumpf (*) Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 109 Davenport Hall, Urba”
Sexual selection in females (2009, background): “…house mice, Mus domesticus, suggests that this may be the case: when males were experimentally mated with females they did not prefer, they produced offspring with lower viability and poorer performance than those allowed to mate with preferred females (Drickamer et al. 2003; Gowaty et al. 2003).”