ArticleCurrent zoology2018
The evolution of male mate choice and female ornamentation: a review of mathematical models.
Article in Current zoology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The better, the choosier: A meta-analysis on interindividual variation of male mate choice.Ecology letters · 2022Pooled it
- The Evolution of Same-sex Sexual Behavior: Using Old Theory to Answer New Questions.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Review
- Exposure to Rivals Does Not Affect Male Mate Choice inEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- The Genetic Basis Underpinning Sexually Selected Traits across Different Animal Lineages: Are There Genetic Mechanisms in Common?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Fertility signalling games: should males obey the signal?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Prostaglandin FProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Male mating preference in an ixodid tick.Parasites & vectors · 2022Article
- Individual differences in song plasticity in response to social stimuli and singing position.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- A reexamination of theoretical arguments that indirect selection on mate preference is likely to be weaker than direct selection.Evolution letters · 2022Article
- Male mate choice in mosquitofish: personality outweighs body size.Frontiers in zoology · 2022Article
- The significant role of post-pairing male behavior on the evolution of male preferences and female traits.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
- Article
- Cosmetic coloration of cross-fostered eggs affects paternal investment in the hoopoe (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Male-like female morphs in hummingbirds: the evolution of a widespread sex-limited plumage polymorphism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Coevolution of male and female mate choice can destabilize reproductive isolation.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Sex roles and the evolution of parental care specialization.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity and female reproductive output.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Male mate choice in livebearing fishes: an overview.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Male mate choice, female competition, and female ornaments as components of sexual selection.Current zoology · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The evolution of male preferences and of female ornaments in species with traditional sex roles (i.e., polygyny) have been highlighted as areas in need of more active research by an accumulation of recent findings. The theoretical literature on these topics is relatively small and has centered on the evolution of male choice. Mathematical models have emphasized that, under polygyny, the evolution of male preferences faces much greater competition costs than does the evolution of female preferences. We discuss ways in which costly male choice can nonetheless evolve, via (1) direct selection that favors preferences, primarily through mating with highly fecund females, (2) mechanisms that rely on indirect selection, which weakly counters competitive costs of male preferences, and (3) genetic constraints, primarily in the form of pleiotropy of male and female preferences and traits. We also review a variety of mathematical models that have elucidated how costs to male preferences can be avoided. Finally, we turn our attention to the relatively scant theoretical literature on the effects of male mate choice on the evolution of female traits. We emphasize the finding that the presence of male preferences cannot be assumed to lead to the evolution of female ornaments during polygyny, and point out situations where models have elucidated ways in which female ornaments can nevertheless evolve.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.