title: Mate Choice: Charting Desire's Tangled Bank.
abstract: Choosing a mate requires a way to turn sexual arousal into sexual action. A recent paper identifies a hormone receptor that acts as a molecular gatekeeper in reproductive decisions. Focusing on mate-choice mechanisms may clarify longstanding evolutionary puzzles in sexual selection and speciation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA and Centro de Investigaciones Científicas de las Huastecas "Aguazarca", Calnali, Hidalgo, Mexico. Electronic address: grosenthal@bio.tamu.edu.
authors.forename: Gil G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002080:Butterflies; D009042:Motivation; D012098:Reproduction; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal