ArticlePloS one2013
Genotype-by-environment interactions for female mate choice of male cuticular hydrocarbons in Drosophila simulans.
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- Complex choice environments shelter unattractive signallers from sexual selection.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Kin-mediated plasticity in alternative reproductive tactics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Influence of female cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profile on male courtship behavior in two hybridizing field crickets Gryllus firmus and Gryllus pennsylvanicus.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Sexual selection drives the evolution of male wing interference patterns.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Relative costs and benefits of alternative reproductive phenotypes at different temperatures - genotype-by-environment interactions in a sexually selected trait.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- The complexity of mating decisions in stalk-eyed flies.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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- Hemiclonal analysis of interacting phenotypes in male and female Drosophila melanogaster.BMC evolutionary biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Recent research has highlighted the potential importance of environmental and genotype-by-environment (G×E) variation in sexual selection, but most studies have focussed on the expression of male sexual traits. Consequently, our understanding of genetic variation for plasticity in female mate choice is extremely poor. In this study we examine the genetics of female mate choice in Drosophila simulans using isolines reared across two post-eclosion temperatures. There was evidence for G×Es in female choosiness and preference, which suggests that the evolution of female mate choice behaviour could differ across environments. However, the ranked order of preferred males was consistent across females and environments, so the same males are favoured by mate choice in spite of G×Es. Our study highlights the importance of taking cross-environment perspectives in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the operation of sexual selection.
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