The Evolutionary Effects of Mate Selection

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Inter-troop transfer and inbreeding avoidance in Papio anubis

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Female Mate Choice in a Neotropical Frog

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Sexual imprinting and optimal outbreeding

1978 • 390 citations

The Courtship of Drosophila Melanogaster

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Song repertoires and territory defence in the great tit

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Courtship-feeding, Egg-size and Breeding Success in Common Terns

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Experiments on sex recognition and the problem of sexual selection in Drosoophilia.

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A Test for Responsiveness to Song Structure and Programming in Female Sparrows

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Sexual Selection and Nuptial Feeding Behavior in Bittacus apicalis (Insecta: Mecoptera)

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Genetic Models of Sexual Selection

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Lek organization and mating strategies in the bullfrog

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Optimal mate selection in the toad Bufo bufo

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Fertility, mating behaviour and sexual selection inDrosophila Subobscura

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SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX SONGS AMONG EUROPEAN WARBLERS OF THE GENUS ACROCEPHALUS

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A GENE MUTATION WHICH CHANGES A BEHAVIOR PATTERN

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Territoriality and Male Mating Success in the Green Frog (Rana Clamitans)

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Territoriality and Non-Random Mating in Sage Grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus

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MATE CHOICE IN THE WOOD FROG, RANA SYLVATICA

1981 • 235 citations

Optimal Outbreeding and the Development of Sexual Preferences in Japanese Quail

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Mate preferences of female mottled sculpins, Cottus bairdi

1980 • 221 citations

Mate choice increases a component of offspring fitness in fruit flies

1980 • 217 citations

Female Choice of Mates: A General Model for Birds and Its Application to Red-Winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

1979 • 214 citations

Sexual selection and the handicap principle

1976 • 199 citations

Validating the female bioassay of cowbird song: Relating differences in song potency to mating success

1981 • 198 citations

Heritability of Ecologically Important Traits in the Great Tit

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Song repertoires and sexual selection in the Red-winged Blackbird

1980 • 192 citations

Breeding Ecology of the Yellow‐Headed Blackbird

1966 • 190 citations

THE INFLUENCE OF SEXUAL SELECTION AND INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION ON MOCKINGBIRD SONG ( MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS )

1974 • 186 citations

Parental investment, mate choice, and mate quality.

1977 • 179 citations

Mate Choice by Multiple Criteria in a Monogamous Species

1981 • 175 citations

Mate selection in the fly Scatophaga stercoraria: female choice in a male-controlled system

1981 • 173 citations

Social Behavior Patterns as Determinants of Reproductive Success in the Guppy, Poecilia Reticulata Peters (Pisces: Poeciliidae) an Experimental Study of the Effects of Intermale Competition, Female Choice, and Sexual Selection

1980 • 168 citations

Social Organization and Mating Success in Local Song Populations of Village Indigobirds, Vidua chalybeata

1977 • 163 citations

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

1971 • 157 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND DIMORPHISM IN TWO DEMES OF A SYMBIOTIC, PAIR‐BONDING SNAPPING SHRIMP

1980 • 156 citations

MALE RARITY OR NOVELTY, FEMALE CHOICE BEHAVIOR, AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE GUPPY,POECILIA RETICULATAPETERS (PISCES: POECILIIDAE)

1977 • 153 citations

Mating success and genotype frequency in Drosophila

1966 • 153 citations

Microgeographic Prediction of Polygyny in the Lark Bunting

1978 • 150 citations

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1978 • 149 citations

Song repertoires in the red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus): A test of the Beau Geste hypothesis

1981 • 140 citations

Mating behaviour and mating success in woodfrogs Rana sylvatica

1980 • 139 citations

Male Quality and Female Choice of Mate in the Red‐Winged Blackbird (Agelaius Phoeniceus)

1981 • 138 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION IN TOADS: THE ROLES OF FEMALE CHOICE AND MALE BODY SIZE

1978 • 136 citations

Mate selection in Pacific tree frogs

1975 • 121 citations

Mate choice in the wood frog

1981 • 118 citations

Mating Propensity and Its Genetic Basis in Drosophila

1970 • 116 citations

Female choice and polygyny in redwinged blackbirds

1980 • 114 citations

REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AND THE EVOLUTION OF BREEDING TERRITORIES IN PUPFISH (CYPRINODON )

1977 • 110 citations

Sexual selection in toads (Bufo americanus)

1976 • 110 citations

Territory Size and Aggression in a Fluctuating Red Grouse Population

1971 • 101 citations

A general model of sexual and natural selection

1967 • 100 citations

Mate size and breeding success in a monogamous cichlid fish

1978 • 100 citations

Patterns of female choice in mottled sculpins (Cottidae, teleostei)

1981 • 97 citations

Harem size, territory quality, and reproductive success in the redwinged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

1977 • 96 citations

MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF MATING STRATEGIES IN INSECTS

1979 • 96 citations

The Adaptive Significance of Variation in Breeding Area Fidelity of the Blackbird (Turdus merula L.)

1976 • 95 citations

Semen Quality, Female Choice and Multiple Mating in Domestic Sheep: a Test of Trivers' Sexual Competence Hypothesis

1982 • 93 citations

Assortative mating in lesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens)

1976 • 87 citations

Coital behaviour in dogs. I. Preferential mating in the bitch

1967 • 82 citations

Sexual selection for a handicap: A critical analysis of Zahavi's model

1976 • 81 citations

SELECTIVE MATING IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1949 • 79 citations

Male size and reproductive success in the communal courtship system of the fiddler crab Uca rapax

1980 • 79 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION IN NOTHOBRANCHIUS GUENTHERI (PISCES: CYPRINODONTIDAE)

1976 • 76 citations

Social Behavior on the Lek in Black Grouse, Lyrurus Tetrix Tetrix (L.)

2002 • 75 citations

Lek Social Organization and Reproductive Success in the Greater Prairie Chicken

1974 • 68 citations

Female choice in relation to calling and courtship songs in Acheta domesticus

1979 • 67 citations

NATURAL SELECTION IN LABORATORY POPULATIONS OFDROSOPHILA. II. COMPETITION BETWEEN A WHITE-EYE GENE AND ITS WILD TYPE ALLELE

1950 • 65 citations

Non-random mating in wild populations of polymorphic Adalia bipunctata

1979 • 62 citations

MATE CHOICE IN HYLOBITTACUS APICALIS (INSECTA: MECOPTERA) AND ITS RELATION TO SOME MODELS OF FEMALE CHOICE

1980 • 62 citations

Male behaviour and female choice: Mate selection in the wren?

1980 • 62 citations

Systems of mate selection in a cockroach species with male dominance hierarchies

1980 • 61 citations

Mate Selection and Colour Preferences in Lesser Snow Geese

1975 • 56 citations

Nest and mate selection in the village weaverbird (Ploceus cucullatus)

1978 • 49 citations

THE HANDICAP PRINCIPLE IN SEXUAL SELECTION

1978 • 47 citations

Does the "Sexy Son" Hypothesis Apply to Mate Choice in Red-Winged Blackbirds?

1981 • 46 citations

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MATE SELECTION IN MORMONIELLA VITRIPENNIS

1974 • 46 citations

Agonistic Encounters Among Male Elephant Seals: Frequency, Context, and the Role of Female Preference

1981 • 44 citations

Mating preferences and sexual selection in the Arctic Skua

1977 • 44 citations

Male Quality and Polygyny: The "Sexy Son" Hypothesis Revisited

1981 • 43 citations

THE SENSORY BASIS OF MATE SELECTION INDROSOPHILA

1969 • 43 citations

The handicap principle—A comment

1978 • 43 citations

A RARE-MALE ADVANTAGE IN THE HOUSEFLY INDUCED BY WING CLIPPING AND SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR DROSOPHILA

1980 • 41 citations

Polymorphism and the evolution of a continuous breeding season in the pigeon, Columba livia.

1973 • 41 citations

Female Choice of Least Costly Males; a Possible Factor in the Evolution of Leks

1980 • 40 citations

Seasonal changes in the social structure of a mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi) population

1979 • 40 citations

Polygyny and Decision Theory: Testing of a Model in Lark Buntings (Calamospiza melanocorys)

1980 • 39 citations

OUTBREEDING VIA FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MATE SELECTION IN THE PARASITOID WASP,NASONIA(=MORMONIELLA)VITRIPENNISWALKER

1980 • 39 citations

Sexual selection by female choice in a monogamous bird: Darwin's theory corroborated

1980 • 37 citations

Melanic polymorphism in ladybirds maintained by sexual selection

1979 • 35 citations

A factor influencing the rare male mating advantage inDrosophila

1972 • 34 citations

The Mating Advantage of Rare Males in Drosophila

1970 • 34 citations

Minority Advantage of Certain Eye Color Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. II. A Behavioral Basis

1980 • 32 citations

SOME EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS OF BEHAVIOR

1967 • 32 citations

MATING ACTIVITY OF HOMO- AND HETEROKARYOTYPES IN DROSOPHILA PAVANI

1964 • 32 citations

Female mate choice in the pupfish, Cyprinodon variegatus

1978 • 32 citations

Territory size, breeding time and mating preference in the Arctic skua

1976 • 30 citations

Nest colour as a factor in nest selection by female village weaverbirds

1978 • 28 citations

Pair bond maintenance in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)

1971 • 28 citations

Sexual selection for dominant and recessive genes

1963 • 16 citations

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MATING IN A MODIFIED ALLOZYME LOCUS OF DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA

1979 • 15 citations

An External Scent as the Basis for a Rare-Male Mating Advantage in Drosophila melanogaster

1979 • 14 citations

Nest'and mate selection by the female village weaverbird

1979 • 10 citations

FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT CHOICE, MINORITY ADVANTAGES, AND FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT NATURAL SELECTION

1977 • 9 citations