The evolution of female ornaments and weaponry: social selection, sexual selection and ecological competition

Family feuds: social competition and sexual conflict in complex societies

(2012) D. R. Rubenstein   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The social selection alternative to sexual selection

(2012) J. Roughgarden   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual selection is a form of social selection

(2012) B. E. Lyon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptive evolution of facial colour patterns in Neotropical primates

(2012) S. E. Santana et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Male, but not female, preference for an ornament expressed in both sexes of the polygynous mosquito Sabethes cyaneus

(2011) Sandra H. South et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dominance and plumage traits: meta-analysis and metaregression analysis

(2011) Eduardo S.A. Santos et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female nuptial coloration and its adaptive significance in a mutual mate choice system

(2011) Sebastian A. Baldauf et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Female–female aggression around mating: an extra cost of sociality in a multimale primate society

(2011) Elise Huchard et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Intrasexual competition in females: evidence for sexual selection?

(2011) Kimberly A. Rosvall   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Competitive females are successful females; phenotype, mechanism, and selection in a common songbird

(2011) Kristal E. Cain et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Condition- and parasite-dependent expression of a male-like trait in a female bird

(2011) J. Martinez-Padilla et al.   Biology Letters

Assortative Mating in Relation to Plumage Traits Shared by Male and Female American Robins

(2011) Karen M. C. Rowe et al.   CONDOR

Sexual selection

(2011) David J. Hosken et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sexual Selection on a Coloured Ornament in King Penguins

(2011) F. Stephen Dobson et al.   ETHOLOGY

White Flank Spots Signal Feeding Dominance in Female Diamond Firetails, Stagonopleura guttata

(2011) Clare J. Crowhurst et al.   ETHOLOGY

Facial Patterns are a Conventional Signal of Agonistic Ability in Polistes exclamans Paper Wasps

(2011) Elizabeth A. Tibbetts et al.   ETHOLOGY

Maintenance of variation in sexually selected traits in females: a case study using intrasexual aggression in tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor

(2011) Kimberly A. Rosvall   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Year-round resource defence and the evolution of male and female song in suboscine birds: social armaments are mutual ornaments

(2011) J. A. TOBIAS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The ornament–condition relationship varies with parasite abundance at population level in a female bird

(2011) Pablo Vergara et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Replication in Field Biology: The Case of the Frog-Eating Bat

(2011) M. J. Ryan   SCIENCE

Experimental manipulation shows that the white wing patch in collared flycatchers is a male sexual ornament

(2011) Maaike E. de Heij et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Sparrows use multiple status signals in winter social flocks

(2010) Alexis S. Chaine et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mate choice in the dung beetle Onthophagus sagittarius: are female horns ornaments?

(2010) Nicola L. Watson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

High resource valuation fuels “desperado” fighting tactics in female jumping spiders

(2010) Damian O. Elias et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Mediating male–male interactions: the role of the UV blue crest coloration in blue tits

(2010) Alice Rémy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Female competition and its evolutionary consequences in mammals

(2010) Paula Stockley et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Vocal Behavior During Territorial Intrusions in the Lusitanian Toadfish: Boatwhistles Also Function as Territorial ‘Keep-Out’ Signals

(2010) Raquel O. Vasconcelos et al.   ETHOLOGY

INTERACTING PHENOTYPES AND THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS. III. SOCIAL EVOLUTION

(2010) Joel W. McGlothlin et al.   EVOLUTION

Female ornamentation, parental quality, and competitive ability in the rock sparrow

(2010) Matteo Griggio et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Reproductive competition promotes the evolution of female weaponry

(2010) N. L. Watson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Female crickets are driven to fight by the male courting and calling songs

(2009) Jan Rillich et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female ornamentation and directional male mate preference in the rock sparrow

(2009) Matteo Griggio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Why are females ornamented? A test of the courtship stimulation and courtship rejection hypotheses

(2009) Rita Chan et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Evolution and life-history correlates of female song in the New World blackbirds

(2009) J. Jordan Price   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Carotenoid-based status signaling by females in the tropical streak-backed oriole

(2009) Troy G. Murphy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Female American goldfinches use carotenoid-based bill coloration to signal status

(2009) Troy G. Murphy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Signal Jamming Mediates Sexual Conflict in a Duetting Bird

(2009) Joseph A. Tobias et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF MIGRATION AND SEXUAL DICHROMATISM IN THE NEW WORLD ORIOLES (ICTERUS)

(2009) Nicholas R. Friedman et al.   EVOLUTION

SIGNAL DESIGN AND PERCEPTION INHYPOCNEMISANTBIRDS: EVIDENCE FOR CONVERGENT EVOLUTION VIA SOCIAL SELECTION

(2009) Joseph A. Tobias et al.   EVOLUTION

Ultraviolet crown colouration affects contest outcomes among male blue tits, but only in the absence of prior encounters

(2009) Oscar Vedder et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Co-evolution of plumage characteristics and winter sociality in New and Old World sparrows

(2009) E. A. TIBBETTS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species

(2009) Dustin R. Rubenstein et al.   NATURE

Evolution of weaponry in female bovids

(2009) T. Stankowich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A female songbird out-sings male conspecifics during simulated territorial intrusions

(2009) A. E Illes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Losses of female song with changes from tropical to temperate breeding in the New World blackbirds

(2009) J. J. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Towards an evolutionary ecology of sexual traits

(2009) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Cost of Sexual Attractiveness to High-Fitness Females

(2009) Tristan A. F. Long et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mutual Mate Choice Can Drive Costly Signaling Even Under Perfect Monogamy

(2008) Paul L. Hooper et al.   ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Sexual selection on aggressiveness in females: evidence from an experimental test with tree swallows

(2008) Kimberly A. Rosvall   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sexual selection in females

(2008) Tim Clutton-Brock   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Monogamy when there is potential for polygyny: tests of multiple hypotheses in a group-living fish

(2008) Marian Y. L. Wong et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Informative content of multiple plumage-coloured traits in female and male European Rollers

(2008) Nadia Silva et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

SOCIAL SELECTION AND GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN TWO MONARCH FLYCATCHERS FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS

(2008) CHRISTOPHER E. FILARDI et al.   CONDOR

SEX-ROLE REVERSAL IN SONG? FEMALES SING MORE FREQUENTLY THAN MALES IN THE STREAK-BACKED ORIOLE

(2008) J. JORDAN PRICE et al.   CONDOR

Female Competition over Core Areas in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, Kibale National Park, Uganda

(2008) Sonya M. Kahlenberg et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Contrasting sexual selection on males and females in a role-reversed swarming dance fly,Rhamphomyia longicaudaLoew (Diptera: Empididae)

(2008) L. F. BUSSIÈRE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Female ornamentation and territorial conflicts in collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis)

(2008) Gergely Hegyi et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN