Plumage coloration is a sexually selected indicator of male quality

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

NATURAL SELECTION ON COLOR PATTERNS INPOECILIA RETICULATA

1980 • 1,237 citations

Female sticklebacks use male coloration in mate choice and hence avoid parasitized males

1990 • 869 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

Sexual selection, natural selection and quality advertisement

1982 • 501 citations

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

1990 • 481 citations

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

1989 • 399 citations

The good parent process of sexual selection

1989 • 399 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

A PATH-ANALYTIC MODEL FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF SELECTION ON MORPHOLOGY

1989 • 178 citations

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

1960 • 92 citations

Variation in Color of Male House Finches

1931 • 56 citations

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

1983 • 53 citations

A Study of the House Finch

1913 • 34 citations

Establishment, Growth, and Behavior of an Extralimital Population of House Finches at Huntington, New York

1965 • 14 citations