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Sexual selection

Extra-pair paternity drives plumage colour elaboration in male passerines

Emma Thibault, Sean M. Mahoney, James V. Briskie, Mateen Shaikh, Matthew W. Reudink

published 22 Aug 2022

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Exceptional long-term sperm storage by a female vertebrate

Brenna A. Levine, Gordon W. Schuett, Warren Booth

published 04 Jun 2021

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Was facial width-to-height ratio subject to sexual selection pressures? A life course approach

Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, Graham Albert, George B. Richardson, Timothy S. McHale, Seth M. Weinberg, Michael Gurven, Steven J. C. Gaulin

published 12 Mar 2021

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Rainfall decrease and red deer rutting behaviour: Weaker and delayed rutting activity though higher opportunity for sexual selection

Marina F. Millán, Juan Carranza, Javier Pérez-González, Juliana Valencia, Jerónimo Torres-Porras, Jose M. Seoane, Eva de la Peña, Susana Alarcos, Cristina B. Sánchez-Prieto, Leticia Castillo, Antonio Flores, Alberto Membrillo

published 20 Jan 2021

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Sexual dimorphism in the horn size of a pair-forming coral reef butterflyfish

Satoshi Shiratsuchi, Chancey MacDonald, Maya Srinivasan, Geoffrey P. Jones

published 08 Oct 2020

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Inter-sexual mate competition in three cultures

Scott W. Semenyna, Francisco R. Gómez Jiménez, Doug P. VanderLaan, Paul L. Vasey

published 29 Jul 2020

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What do rates of deposition of dental cementum tell us? Functional and evolutionary hypotheses in red deer

F. J. Pérez-Barbería, F. E. Guinness, M. López-Quintanilla, A. J. García, L. Gallego, J. Cappelli, M. P. Serrano, T. Landete-Castillejos

published 28 Apr 2020

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Polyphenism of visual and chemical secondary sexually-selected wing traits in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana: How different is the intermediate phenotype?

Doriane Muller, Benjamin Elias, Laurent Collard, Christophe Pels, Marie-Jeanne Holveck, Caroline M. Nieberding

published 18 Nov 2019

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Are hemipenial traits under sexual selection in Tropidurus lizards? Hemipenial development, male and female genital morphology, allometry and coevolution in Tropidurus torquatus (Squamata: Tropiduridae)

Anderson Kennedy Soares De-Lima, Ingrid Pinheiro Paschoaletto, Lorena de Oliveira Pinho, Piktor Benmamman, Julia Klaczko

published 10 Jul 2019

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Evolutionary relationships of courtship songs in the parasitic wasp genus, Cotesia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Justin P. Bredlau, Karen M. Kester

published 04 Jan 2019

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Geolocator deployment reduces return rate, alters selection, and impacts demography in a small songbird

Conor C. Taff, Corey R. Freeman-Gallant, Henry M. Streby, Gunnar R. Kramer

published 12 Dec 2018

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Morphological and colour morph clines along an altitudinal gradient in the meadow grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus

Günter Köhler, Jörg Samietz, Holger Schielzeth

published 28 Dec 2017

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Low level of polyandry constrains phenotypic plasticity of male body size in mites

Peter Schausberger, Andreas Walzer, Yasumasa Murata, Masahiro Osakabe

published 30 Nov 2017

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