Sexual Selection

Recent Papers

Social games and genic selection drives mammalian mating system evolution and speciation

Barry Sinervo, Alexis S Chaine, and Donald Miles

Blurb and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Sinervo.html

Assortative Mating in Animals and Its Role for Speciation

Tim Janicke, Lucas Marie-Orleach, Thomas G. Aubier, Charles Perrier, and Edward H. Morrow

Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict

Beatriz Willink, M. Catherine Duryea, and Erik I. Svensson

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Willink.html

Interspecific Covariation in Courtship Displays, Iridescent Plumage, Solar Orientation, and Their Interactions in Hummingbirds

Richard K. Simpson and Kevin J. McGraw

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Simpson.html

Phenotypic Diversity Arises from Secondary Signal Loss in the Elaborate Visual Displays of Toucans and Barbets

Meredith C. Miles and Matthew J. Fuxjager

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugMiles.html

Nineteen Years of Consistently Positive and Strong Female Mate Preferences despite Individual Variation

Michael J. Ryan, Karin L. Akre, Alexander T. Baugh, Ximena E. Bernal, Amanda M. Lea, Caitlin Leslie, Meghan B. Still, Dennis C. Wylie, and A. Stanley Rand

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AugRyan.html

Natural History Note

Mate Choice versus Mate Preference: Inferences about Color-Assortative Mating Differ between Field and Lab Assays of Poison Frog Behavior

Yusan Yang, Simone Blomenkamp, Matthew B. Dugas, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, and Heike Pröhl

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprYang-A.html

Rarity of Size-Assortative Mating in Animals: Assessing the Evidence with Anuran Amphibians

David M. Green

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebGreen.html

Multiple Evolutionary Routes to Monogamy: Modeling the Coevolution of Mating Decisions and Parental Investment

Arne Jungwirth and Rufus A. Johnstone

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebJungwirth.html

Assortative Mating by an Obliquely Transmitted Local Cultural Trait Promotes Genetic Divergence: A Model

D. Justin Yeh

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanYeh.html

Sexual Conflict and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Coevolution of Sexually Antagonistic Host Traits with an STI

Alison M. Wardlaw, and Aneil F. Agrawal

Natural History Note

Purring Crickets: The Evolution of a Novel Sexual Signal

Robin M. Tinghitella, E. Dale Broder, Gabrielle A. Gurule-Small, Claudia J. Hallagan, and Jacob D. Wilson

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecTinghitella.html

Open Access

A Probable Case of Incipient Speciation in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders Driven by Allochrony, Habitat Use, and Female Mate Choice

R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Eileen A. Hebets

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepGilman.html

Multivariate Sexual Selection on Ejaculate Traits under Sperm Competition

Rowan A. Lymbery, W. Jason Kennington, and Jonathan P. Evans

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyLymbery.html