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Sexual selection
Local adaptation and the evolution of female choice
This book chapter presents a theoretical model looking at the evolution of female choice when male condition is determined by …
Luke Holman
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Hanna Kokko
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Polyandrous females found fitter populations
Multiple mating by females (polyandry) requires an evolutionary explanation, because it carries fitness costs in many species. When …
Daniel J. Power
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Luke Holman
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Fiddlers on the roof: elevation muddles mate choice in fiddler crabs
Biological signaling usually occurs in complex environments, yet signals are most often studied in controlled experiments that strip …
Luke Holman
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Andrew T. Kahn
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Patricia R.Y. Backwell
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Genetic constraints on dishonesty and caste dimorphism in an ant
The ultimate causes of honest signaling remain a subject of debate, with questions remaining over the relative importance of costs and …
Luke Holman
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Timothy A. Linksvayer
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Patrizia d'Ettorre
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The consequences of polyandry for population viability, extinction risk and conservation
Polyandry, by elevating sexual conflict and selecting for reduced male care relative to monandry, may exacerbate the cost of sex and …
Luke Holman
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Hanna Kokko
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Costs and constraints conspire to produce honest signaling: insights from an ant queen pheromone
Signal costs and evolutionary constraints have both been proposed as ultimate explanations for the ubiquity of honest signaling, but …
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Random sperm use and genetic effects on worker caste fate in Atta colombica leaf‐cutting ants
Sperm competition can produce fascinating adaptations with far‐reaching evolutionary consequences. Social taxa make particularly …
Luke Holman
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Marlene Stürup
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Kalevi Trontti
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Jacobus J. Boomsma
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Terminal investment in multiple sexual signals: immune‐challenged males produce more attractive pheromones
Trade‐offs between current and future resource allocation can select for elevated reproductive effort in individuals facing mortality. …
Matthias Lange Nielsen
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Luke Holman
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Sperm viability staining in ecology and evolution: potential pitfalls
The causes and consequences of variation in sperm quality, survival and ageing are active areas of research in ecology and evolution. …
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Drosophila melanogaster seminal fluid can protect the sperm of other males
Many internally‐fertilizing animals produce seminal fluid which is transferred along with sperm during mating. Seminal fluid typically …
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