Comparative sexual selection in field and laboratory in a guild of sepsid dung flies

Designing mate choice experiments

(2020) Liam R. Dougherty   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Sexual size dimorphism is associated with reproductive life history trait differentiation in coexisting sepsid flies

(2020) Wolf U. Blanckenhorn et al.   OIKOS

Does thermal plasticity align with local adaptation? An interspecific comparison of wing morphology in sepsid flies

(2019) Patrick T. Rohner et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Intraspecific mating system evolution and its effect on complex male secondary sexual traits: Does male–male competition increase selection on size or shape?

(2019) Julian Baur et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Geographic clines in wing morphology relate to colonization history in New World but not Old World populations of yellow dung flies

(2018) Martin A. Schäfer et al.   EVOLUTION

A Comparative Study of the Role of Sex-Specific Condition Dependence in the Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Traits

(2018) Patrick T. Rohner et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The evolution of male-biased sexual size dimorphism is associated with increased body size plasticity in males

(2017) Patrick T. Rohner et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Sexual selection on male size drives the evolution of male-biased sexual size dimorphism via the prolongation of male development

(2016) Patrick T. Rohner et al.   EVOLUTION

The total opportunity for sexual selection and the integration of pre- and post-mating episodes of sexual selection in a complex world

(2016) J. P. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Enhanced flight performance by genetic manipulation of wing shape in Drosophila

(2016) Robert P. Ray et al.   Nature Communications

Measuring and interpreting sexual selection metrics: evaluation and guidelines

(2016) Nils Anthes et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Linking macrotrends and microrates: Re-evaluating microevolutionary support for Cope's rule

(2015) Kiyoko M. Gotanda et al.   EVOLUTION

Distribution, diversity gradients and Rapoport's elevational rule in the black scavenger flies of the Swiss Alps (Diptera: Sepsidae)

(2015) Patrick T. Rohner et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Selection on bristle length has the ability to drive the evolution of male abdominal appendages in the sepsid flyThemira biloba

(2015) B. Herath et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Behavioural barriers to reproduction may evolve faster than sexual morphology among populations of a dung fly (Sepsidae)

(2014) Nalini Puniamoorthy   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Genetic data confirm the species status of Sepsis nigripes Meigen (Diptera : Sepsidae) and adds one species to the Alpine fauna while questioning the synonymy of Sepsis helvetica Munari

(2014) Patrick T. Rohner et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Condition dependence and the maintenance of genetic variance in a sexually dimorphic black scavenger fly

(2014) C. Dmitriew et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The spatial patterns of directional phenotypic selection

(2013) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary Covariation in Geometric Morphometric Data: Analyzing Integration, Modularity, and Allometry in a Phylogenetic Context

(2013) Christian Peter Klingenberg et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A plea for digital reference collections and other science-based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar

(2013) YUCHEN ANG et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

DECIPHERING THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENTAL MECHANISMS OF A COMPLEX SEXUAL ORNAMENT: THE ABDOMINAL APPENDAGES OF SEPSIDAE (DIPTERA)

(2012) Julia H. Bowsher et al.   EVOLUTION

SEXUAL SELECTION ACCOUNTS FOR THE GEOGRAPHIC REVERSAL OF SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN THE DUNG FLY, SEPSIS PUNCTUM (DIPTERA: SEPSIDAE)

(2012) Nalini Puniamoorthy et al.   EVOLUTION

Differential investment in pre- vs. post-copulatory sexual selection reinforces a cross-continental reversal of sexual size dimorphism inSepsis punctum(Diptera: Sepsidae)

(2012) N. Puniamoorthy et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Role of Sexual Selection and Conflict in Mediating Among-Population Variation in Mating Strategies and Sexually Dimorphic Traits in Sepsis punctum

(2012) Caitlin Dmitriew et al.   PLoS One

New information on the evolution of mating behaviour in Sepsidae (Diptera) and the cost of male copulations in Saltella sphondylii

(2011) Denise Siew Hoong Tan et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Unlocking the "Black box": internal female genitalia in Sepsidae (Diptera) evolve fast and are species-specific

(2010) Nalini Puniamoorthy et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Partial co-option of the appendage patterning pathway in the development of abdominal appendages in the sepsid fly Themira biloba

(2010) Julia H. Bowsher et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

The mismeasurement of sexual selection

(2010) H. KLUG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Sexually Antagonistic Selection, Sexual Dimorphism, and the Resolution of Intralocus Sexual Conflict

(2009) Robert M. Cox et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

It’s about time: the temporal dynamics of phenotypic selection in the wild

(2009) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

ON THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SEXUAL SELECTION, THE BATEMAN GRADIENT AND THE MAXIMUM INTENSITY OF SEXUAL SELECTION

(2009) Adam G. Jones   EVOLUTION

From kissing to belly stridulation: comparative analysis reveals surprising diversity, rapid evolution, and much homoplasy in the mating behaviour of 27 species of sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)

(2009) N. PUNIAMOORTHY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Bending for love: losses and gains of sexual dimorphisms are strictly correlated with changes in the mounting position of sepsid flies (Sepsidae: Diptera)

(2008) Nalini Puniamoorthy et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Male-male competition, female mate choice and their interaction: determining total sexual selection

(2008) JOHN HUNT et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY