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Chemical communication and its role in sexual selection across Animalia [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2023 Sexual selection has been studied as a major evolutionary driver of animal diversity for roughly 50 years. Much evidence indicates that competition for mates favors elaborate signaling traits.
Tyler J. Buchinger, Weiming Li
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Evolutionary responses to increased opportunity for sexual selection in yeast [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionSexual selection contributes to biodiversity and the costs and benefits of sexual reproduction. In organisms where sex is infrequent, these impacts of sexual selection are likely to be limited.
Linnea Sandell +3 more
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Explaining sex: contrast between social and sexual selection [PDF]
Biology of Sex DifferencesDarwin’s [The Descent of Man (2nd Edn.) (1871)] theory of sexual selection has been expanded into a system of interlocking hypotheses to explain many features of sexual reproduction.
Joan Roughgarden
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Sexual selection is a form of social selection [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2012 Social selection influences the evolution of weapons, ornaments and behaviour in both males and females. Thus, social interactions in both sexual and non-sexual contexts can have a powerful influence on the evolution of traits that would otherwise appear to be detrimental to survival.
Bruce E Lyon, Robert Montgomerie
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Monogamy removes constraints on reproductive tissue investment imposed by intense sexual selection [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA key factor influencing the reproductive success and fitness of an individual is the allocation of resources to reproductive tissue. Previous research has documented positive influences of sexual selection on the evolution of male traits such as testes ...
Abril Alexander +3 more
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The mismeasurement of sexual selection
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Abstract Sexual selection can explain major micro- and macro-evolutionary patterns. Much of current theory predicts that the strength of sexual selection (i) is driven by the relative abundance of males and females prepared to mate (i.e.
Jan Heuschele +2 more
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Climate and ecology predict latitudinal trends in sexual selection inferred from avian mating systems. [PDF]
PLoS BiologySexual selection, one of the central pillars of evolutionary theory, has powerful effects on organismal morphology, behaviour, and population dynamics.
Robert A Barber +5 more
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Sexual selection and life history interact to influence the evolution of paternal care [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionParental care is essential to offspring survival in many species. Understanding why males of some species provide care, whereas others do not, has received substantial attention.
Taya deBlonk +3 more
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No evidence of male-biased sexual selection in a snake with conventional Darwinian sex roles [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Decades of research on sexual selection have demonstrated that ‘conventional’ Darwinian sex roles are common in species with anisogamous gametes, with those species often exhibiting male-biased sexual selection. Yet, mating system characteristics such as
Brenna A. Levine +5 more
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The definition of sexual selection [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 2021 AbstractSexual selection is a key component of evolutionary biology. However, from the very formulation of sexual selection by Darwin, the nature and extent of sexual selection have been controversial. Recently, such controversy has led back to the fundamental question of just what sexual selection is. This has included how we incorporate female-female
David M Shuker, Charlotta Kvarnemo
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