ArticleRoyal Society open science2021
Sex pheromone signal and stability covary with fitness.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Temporal variation in sex pheromone release from individual Chilo suppressalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) females and maximization of male trapping.Crop health · 2026Article
- Maternal Pheromone Emission During Biparental Care: Evidence for Consistent Individual Differences and Links to Terminal Investment.Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
- A male-derived volatile sex pheromone inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Chemical signal diversity in male sand lizards (Lacerta agilis) along an urbanization gradient.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Behavioural consequences of intraspecific variability in a mate recognition signal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Experimental evolution of a pheromone signal.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Mating status affects female choice when females are signalers.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Sex pheromone signal and stability covary with fitness.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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Abstract
If sexual signals are costly, covariance between signal expression and fitness is expected. Signal-fitness covariance is important, because it can contribute to the maintenance of genetic variation in signals that are under natural or sexual selection. Chemical signals, such as female sex pheromones in moths, have traditionally been assumed to be species-recognition signals, but their relationship with fitness is unclear. Here, we test whether chemical, conspecific mate finding signals covary with fitness in the moth
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