Female house finches prefer colourful males: sexual selection for a condition-dependent trait

The genetical theory of natural selection

1930 • 17,330 citations

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex

1907 • 11,265 citations

Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments

1984 • 8,087 citations

Mate selection—A selection for a handicap

1975 • 5,212 citations

Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites?

1982 • 3,696 citations

Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits

1981 • 2,233 citations

NATURAL SELECTION ON COLOR PATTERNS INPOECILIA RETICULATA

1980 • 1,237 citations

A Predator’s View of Animal Color Patterns

1978 • 1,157 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF FEMALE CHOICE

1982 • 1,066 citations

Truth in Advertising: The Kinds of Traits Favored by Sexual Selection

1984 • 770 citations

Natural and sexual selection on color patterns in poeciliid fishes

1984 • 734 citations

Natural and sexual selection on color patterns in poeciliid fishes

1983 • 702 citations

EVOLUTION OF CONDITION-DEPENDENT SEX ORNAMENTS AND MATING PREFERENCES: SEXUAL SELECTION BASED ON VIABILITY DIFFERENCES

1986 • 575 citations

Natural Selection on Color Patterns in Poecilia reticulata

1980 • 516 citations

Suggested experimental designs for song playbacks

1989 • 427 citations

Female pied flycatchers choose territory quality and not male characteristics

1986 • 421 citations

Dietary carotenoids and male mating success in the guppy: an environmental component to female choice

1989 • 399 citations

MATE CHOICE BASED UPON NATURALLY OCCURRING COLOR‐PATTERN VARIATION IN A GUPPY POPULATION

1987 • 358 citations

Influence of colour-banding on the conspecific preferences of zebra finches

1982 • 344 citations

Phenotypic plasticity and the handicap principle

1984 • 336 citations

Female preference and sexual selection for male coloration in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

1985 • 323 citations

Sex Ratio Manipulation and Selection for Attractiveness

1981 • 297 citations

Bill Color Preferences of Zebra Finches

1987 • 262 citations

The Evolution of Conspicuous and Distinctive Coloration for Communication in Birds

1989 • 259 citations

Evolution of Condition-Dependent Sex Ornaments and Mating Preferences: Sexual Selection Based on Viability Differences

1986 • 220 citations

DELAYED PLUMAGE MATURATION IN PASSERINE BIRDS: RELIABLE SIGNALING BY SUBORDINATE MALES?

1986 • 169 citations

Badge size in the house sparrow Passer domesticus

1988 • 165 citations

Some aspects of adaptation in a polymorphism for breeding colours in the Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus))

1971 • 157 citations

Mate Choice Based Upon Naturally Occurring Color-Pattern Variation in a Guppy Population

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Female mate choice in the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

1984 • 122 citations

CAROTENOIDS AND REPRODUCTION

1950 • 107 citations

Sexual selection in pinyon jays I: female choice and male-male competition

1988 • 98 citations

Delayed Plumage Maturation in Passerine Birds: Reliable Signaling by Subordinate Males?

1986 • 96 citations

Female pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca choose male characteristics in homogeneous habitats

1988 • 93 citations

Agonistic Behavior in the House Finch. Part I: Annual Cycle and Display Patterns

1960 • 92 citations

Evidence for reliable badges of status in territorial yellow warblers (Dendroica petechia)

1985 • 90 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSPICUOUS CHARACTERISTICS IN BIRDS BY MEANS OF IMPRINTING

1988 • 89 citations

Pigmentation and Feather Structure in Genetic Variants of the Gouldian Finch, Poephila gouldiae

1968 • 87 citations

Age, Plumage Brightness, Territory Quality, and Reproductive Success in the Black-Headed Grosbeak

1988 • 81 citations

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1984 • 79 citations

Variation in Color of Male House Finches

1931 • 56 citations

Sexual selection, additive genetic variance and the “phenotypic handicap”

1983 • 53 citations

Sexual Selection: The Evolution of Conspicuous Characteristics in Birds by Means of Imprinting

1988 • 42 citations

Male plumage colour and mate choice of female Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

1983 • 31 citations

A Quantitative Genetic Model for the Origin of Mating Preferences

1984 • 21 citations

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1965 • 14 citations