Mating Games and Signalling

4/18/02


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Table of Contents

Mating Games and Signalling

Consequences of anisogamy

Male mating strategies

Sexual selection and signalling

Mobility game

Mate searching patterns

Hybrid mating game

Character displacement in damselflies

Courtship persistence games

Courtship duration patterns

Mechanisms of mate choice

Direct benefits of female preferences for male frequency in Australian frogs

Fisherís Runaway process

The Fisher Runaway process

Arbitrary traits

Arbitrary traits in zebra finch?

Good genes models

Peahens prefer males with eyespots which have better offspring survival

Female preference for repertoire size in Acrocephalus warblers

Condition dependent traits

Sage grouse condition and display

Revealing trait

Barn swallow tail effects

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Cyrtodiopsis population eyespan allometry

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Sperm development predicts SR

Eyespan covaries with sperm development

Population variation in bowers

Bower evolution

Postcopulation signals

Author: Jerry Wilkinson

Email: gw10@umail.umd.edu

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