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Mate choice for genetic quality when environments vary: suggestions for empirical progress.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Stressful environments favor deceptive alternative mating tactics to become dominant.BMC biology · 2023Article
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- The ecological stage changes benefits of mate choice and drives preference divergence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Sexual selection, environmental robustness, and evolutionary demography of maladapted populations: A test using experimental evolution in seed beetles.Evolutionary applications · 2019Article
- Male-limited secondary sexual trait interacts with environment in determining female fitness.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2018Article
- Sometimes noise is beneficial: stream noise informs vocal communication in the little torrent frogJournal of ethology · 2017Article
- The incredible shrinking dewlap: signal size, skin elasticity, and mechanical design in the green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis).Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
- Environmental quality alters female costs and benefits of evolving under enforced monogamy.BMC evolutionary biology · 2014Article
- Sexual traits are sensitive to genetic stress and predict extinction risk in the stalk-eyed fly, Diasemopsis meigenii.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2013Article
- No evidence for heritability of male mating latency or copulation duration across social environments in Drosophila melanogaster.PloS one · 2013Article
- Sex-specific effects of developmental environment on reproductive trait expression in Drosophila melanogaster.Ecology and evolution · 2012Article
- The juvenile social environment introduces variation in the choice and expression of sexually selected traits.Ecology and evolution · 2012Article
- Complex genotype by environment interactions and changing genetic architectures across thermal environments in the Australian field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus.BMC evolutionary biology · 2011Article
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- Breeding experience and the heritability of female mate choice in collared flycatchers.PloS one · 2010Article
- Darker eumelanic barn owls better withstand food depletion through resistance to food deprivation and lower appetite.Oecologia · 2010Article
- The sex lives of parasites: investigating the mating system and mechanisms of sexual selection of the human pathogen Schistosoma mansoni.International journal for parasitology · 2009Article
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Abstract
Mate choice for good-genes remains one of the most controversial evolutionary processes ever proposed. This is partly because strong directional choice should theoretically deplete the genetic variation that explains the evolution of this type of female mating preference (the so-called lek paradox). Moreover, good-genes benefits are generally assumed to be too small to outweigh opposing direct selection on females. Here, we review recent progress in the study of mate choice for genetic quality, focussing particularly on the potential for genotype by environment interactions (GEIs) to rescue additive genetic variation for quality, and thereby resolve the lek paradox. We raise five questions that we think will stimulate empirical progress in this field, and suggest directions for research in each area: (1) How is condition-dependence affected by environmental variation? (2) How important are GEIs for maintaining additive genetic variance in condition? (3) How much do GEIs reduce the signalling value of male condition? (4) How does GEI affect the multivariate version of the lek paradox? (5) Have mating biases for high-condition males evolved because of indirect benefits?
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