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

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

Macroevolutionary patterns of sexual size dimorphism in copepods

(2014) A. G. Hirst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual size dimorphism requires a corresponding sex difference in development time: a meta-analysis in insects

(2013) Tiit Teder   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Does better taxon sampling help? A new phylogenetic hypothesis for Sepsidae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) based on 50 new taxa and the same old mitochondrial and nuclear markers

(2013) Lei Zhao et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Sex-Specific Weight Loss Mediates Sexual Size Dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Nicholas D. Testa et al.   PLoS One

Temperature-size rule is mediated by thermal plasticity of critical size in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) S. M. Ghosh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The developmental control of size in insects

(2013) H. Frederik Nijhout et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Standardized laboratory tests with 21 species of temperate and tropical sepsid flies confirm their suitability as bioassays of pharmaceutical residues (ivermectin) in cattle dung

(2012) Wolf U. Blanckenhorn et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

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

A developmental perspective on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism of a moth

(2010) R. C. Stillwell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sex Differences in Phenotypic Plasticity Affect Variation in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Insects: From Physiology to Evolution

(2009) R. Craig Stillwell et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Proximate sources of sexual size dimorphism in insects: locating constraints on larval growth schedules

(2009) Toomas Tammaru et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

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