Weaponry and defenses in fighting animals: how allometry can alter predictions from contest theory

Scaling of Morphological Characters across Trait Type, Sex, and Environment

(2016) Kjetil Lysne Voje   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Contest Duration and Dynamics are Affected by Body Size in a Potentially Subsocial Crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda)

(2016) Juliana R. Costa et al.   ETHOLOGY

Sexual selection on skeletal shape in Carnivora

(2016) Jeremy S. Morris et al.   EVOLUTION

Losing reduces maximum bite performance in house cricket contests

(2016) Catriona Condon et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Assessment strategies and decision making in male–male contests of Servaea incana jumping spiders

(2015) Rowan H. McGinley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Variation in the allometry of exaggerated rhinoceros beetle horns

(2015) Erin L. McCullough et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evidence for assessment disappears in mixed-sex contests of the crayfish, Orconectes virilis

(2015) Sarah J. Wofford et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Contests with deadly weapons: telson sparring in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda)

(2015) P. A. Green et al.   Biology Letters

Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Increasing male density promotes sperm competition and reduces selection on arm strength in a chorusing frog

(2015) Bruno A. Buzatto et al.   EVOLUTION

Freshwater decapod ( Aegla longirostri ) uses a mixed assessment strategy to resolve contests

(2014) Alexandre V. Palaoro et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mechanisms of decision making during contests in green anole lizards: prior experience and assessment

(2014) Mark J. Garcia et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolution of morphological allometry

(2014) Christophe Pélabon et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Rival assessment and comparison of morphological and performance-based predictors of fighting ability in Lake Eyre dragon lizards, Ctenophorus maculosus

(2014) Claire A. McLean et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Heightened Condition-Dependent Growth of Sexually Selected Weapons in the Rhinoceros Beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2014) A. Johns et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Mechanical limits to maximum weapon size in a giant rhinoceros beetle

(2014) E. L. McCullough   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variation between Self- and Mutual Assessment in Animal Contests

(2013) Mike Mesterton-Gibbons et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Males of the dragonfly Diastatops obscura fight according to predictions from game theory models

(2013) Romilson Silva Lopes Junior et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Assessments of fighting ability need not be cognitively complex

(2013) Tim W. Fawcett et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolutionary variation in the mechanics of fiddler crab claws

(2013) Brook O Swanson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Winners and losers: a meta-analysis of functional determinants of fighting ability in arthropod contests

(2013) Marcos C. Vieira et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Understanding how animals fight with Lloyd Morgan's canon

(2012) Robert W. Elwood et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Vocal rate as an assessment process during fallow deer contests

(2012) Dómhnall J. Jennings et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Assessment Strategies and the Effects of Fighting Experience on Future Contest Performance in the Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)

(2012) Mark J. Garcia et al.   ETHOLOGY

THE DESIGN OF A BEAUTIFUL WEAPON: COMPENSATION FOR OPPOSING SEXUAL SELECTION ON A TRAIT WITH TWO FUNCTIONS

(2012) Stefan Dennenmoser et al.   EVOLUTION

Male morphotypes in the Andean river shrimp Cryphiops caementarius (Decapoda: Caridea): morphology, coloration and injuries

(2012) R. Rojas et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A Mechanism of Extreme Growth and Reliable Signaling in Sexually Selected Ornaments and Weapons

(2012) D. J. Emlen et al.   SCIENCE

Rules of engagement for resource contests in a social fish

(2011) Adam R. Reddon et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Metabolic costs of fighting are driven by contest performance in male convict cichlid fish

(2011) Donald L. Copeland et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The logical polyp: assessments and decisions during contests in the beadlet anemone Actinia equina

(2011) Fabian S. Rudin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Influence of previous residency and body mass in the territorial contests of the butterfly Hermeuptychia fallax (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae)

(2011) Paulo Enrique Cardoso Peixoto et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Investment in fighting in relation to body condition, age and dominance rank in the male fallow deer, Dama dama

(2010) Dómhnall J. Jennings et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Exoskeletal chitin scales isometrically with body size in terrestrial insects

(2010) Hilary M. Lease et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests

(2009) Gareth Arnott et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Large body size for winning and large swords for winning quickly in swordtail males, Xiphophorus helleri

(2008) John Prenter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Difficulties remain in distinguishing between mutual and self-assessment in animal contests

(2008) Mark Briffa et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Evolution of Animal Weapons

(2008) Douglas J. Emlen   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Resource defense polygyny shifts to female defense polygyny over the course of the reproductive season of a Neotropical harvestman

(2008) Bruno A. Buzatto et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Does size matter for hypoxia tolerance in fish?

(2008) Göran E. Nilsson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Decisions during fights in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus: mutual or self assessment of energy, weapons and size?

(2007) Mark Briffa   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR