Mating status affects female choice when females are signalers.

In testing the strength of female preference in virgin and mated females, we found a highly significant, three‐way interaction in our model ( χ 2 1 = 11.244, p = .004, Table 1 ), showing that virgin females ( n = 56) had a weaker preference than mated females ( n = 45) (Figure 4 ).

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