Unifying and Testing Models of Sexual Selection

The genetical theory of natural selection

1930 • 17,330 citations

Parental Investment and Sexual Selection

2017 • 9,626 citations

Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man

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Sexual Selection

1994 • 6,925 citations

Ecology, Sexual Selection, and the Evolution of Mating Systems

1977 • 6,145 citations

Mate selection—A selection for a handicap

1975 • 5,212 citations

THE MEASUREMENT OF SELECTION ON CORRELATED CHARACTERS

1983 • 4,930 citations

Biological signals as handicaps

1990 • 2,442 citations

QUANTITATIVE GENETIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE EVOLUTION, APPLIED TO BRAIN:BODY SIZE ALLOMETRY

1979 • 2,334 citations

Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits

1981 • 2,233 citations

The Measurement of Selection on Correlated Characters

1983 • 1,973 citations

Why do females mate multiply? A review of the genetic benefits

2000 • 1,705 citations

Sexual Conflict

2005 • 1,538 citations

The evolution of polyandry: multiple mating and female fitness in insects

2000 • 1,499 citations

The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits

1996 • 1,461 citations

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Multivariate Evolution, Applied to Brain: Body Size Allometry

1979 • 1,397 citations

Mating Systems and Strategies

2003 • 1,330 citations

The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek

1991 • 1,327 citations

Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects

2002 • 1,316 citations

Sexual Selection: Testing the Alternatives

1987 • 1,060 citations

Parental investment: A prospective analysis

1977 • 1,054 citations

The cost of honesty

1977 • 1,012 citations

Sensory ecology, receiver biases and sexual selection

1998 • 852 citations

Potential Reproductive Rates and the Operation of Sexual Selection

1992 • 819 citations

PERSPECTIVE: CHASE‐AWAY SEXUAL SELECTION: ANTAGONISTIC SEDUCTION VERSUS RESISTANCE

1998 • 709 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES II. THE “HANDICAP” PRINCIPLE

1991 • 700 citations

Sexual conflict over mating and fertilization: an overview

2006 • 637 citations

The origin and evolution of gamete dimorphism and the male-female phenomenon

1972 • 623 citations

Do sexual ornaments demonstrate heightened condition-dependent expression as predicted by the handicap hypothesis?

2004 • 611 citations

Negative genetic correlation for adult fitness between sexes reveals ontogenetic conflict in Drosophila

2001 • 608 citations

A REASSESSMENT OF GENETIC LIMITS TO EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE

2005 • 607 citations

Sexual selection unhandicapped by the fisher process

1990 • 591 citations

Genic capture and resolving the lek paradox

2004 • 579 citations

Comparative quantitative genetics: evolution of the G matrix

2002 • 552 citations

Offspring Quality and the Polygyny Threshold: "The Sexy Son Hypothesis"

1979 • 488 citations

The sexual selection continuum

2002 • 469 citations

High-quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young

2004 • 464 citations

MUTUAL MATE CHOICE AND SEX DIFFERENCES IN CHOOSINESS

1996 • 443 citations

The evolution of female mate choice by sexual conflict

2001 • 429 citations

Comparing Mutational Variabilities

1996 • 409 citations

What is genetic quality?

2004 • 403 citations

The strength of indirect selection on female mating preferences

1997 • 402 citations

The good parent process of sexual selection

1989 • 399 citations

Conflict between parents over care

2004 • 396 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY MATE PREFERENCES I. FISHER AND BIASED MUTATION

1991 • 382 citations

Incorporating rules for responding into evolutionary games

1999 • 375 citations

The costs of choice in sexual selection

1987 • 367 citations

Why is mutual mate choice not the norm? Operational sex ratios, sex roles and the evolution of sexually dimorphic and monomorphic signalling

2002 • 346 citations

It takes two to tango

2003 • 335 citations

The Population Biology of Large Brown Seaweeds: Ecological Consequences of Multiphase Life Histories in Dynamic Coastal Environments

2006 • 333 citations

Quantitative genetic models of sexual selection

2004 • 332 citations

Sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction

2001 • 327 citations

Unusually dynamic sex roles in a fish

2004 • 310 citations

Why do females care more than males?

1997 • 302 citations

The Evolution of Infidelity in Socially Monogamous Passerines: The Strength of Direct and Indirect Selection on Extrapair Copulation Behavior in Females

2005 • 302 citations

The Evolution of Costly Mate Preferences II. The 'Handicap' Principle

1991 • 300 citations

How important are direct fitness benefits of sexual selection?

2001 • 298 citations

Costs and Benefits of Female Mate Choice: Is There a Lek Paradox?

1990 • 296 citations

PERSPECTIVE: INDIRECT MATE CHOICE, COMPETITION FOR MATES, AND COEVOLUTION OF THE SEXES

1996 • 281 citations

20 Questions on Adaptive Dynamics

2005 • 281 citations

Negative genetic correlation between male sexual attractiveness and survival

2000 • 279 citations

Female choice response to artificial selection on an exaggerated male trait in a stalk-eyed fly

1994 • 275 citations

Perspective: Chase-Away Sexual Selection: Antagonistic Seduction Versus Resistance

1998 • 275 citations

Sexual selection: the handicap principle does work – sometimes

1987 • 274 citations

Predicting the direction of sexual selection

2001 • 273 citations

Time constraints and multiple choice criteria in the sampling behaviour and mate choice of the fiddler crab, Uca annulipes

1996 • 269 citations

Evolution of Female Choice and Male Parental Investment in Polygynous Species: The Demise of the "Sexy Son"

1985 • 263 citations

Sexual selection when the female directly benefits

1993 • 260 citations

Unifying Evolutionary Dynamics

2002 • 254 citations

Good genes, old age and life-history trade-offs

1998 • 248 citations

Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex

2001 • 236 citations

Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences

2005 • 221 citations

Harm to females increases with male body size inDrosophila melanogaster

2002 • 221 citations

Sex differences, sex ratios and sex roles

1994 • 220 citations

Unifying Evolutionary Dynamics

2002 • 219 citations

Continual change in mate preferences

1995 • 216 citations

Coevolution of costly mate choice and condition-dependent display of good genes

2002 • 215 citations

Sexually selected signals are not similar to sports handicaps

2005 • 210 citations

Female mating bias results in conflicting sex-specific offspring fitness

2004 • 204 citations

Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild

2006 • 200 citations

Should advertising parental care be honest?

1998 • 196 citations

A mutation accumulation assay reveals a broad capacity for rapid evolution of gene expression

2005 • 194 citations

Good Parent and Good Genes Models of Handicap Evolution

1999 • 188 citations

Parental investment and the control of sexual selection: predicting the direction of sexual competition

1996 • 187 citations

Darwinian adaptation, population genetics and the streetcar theory of evolution

1996 • 183 citations

Sympatric Speciation by Sexual Selection: A Critical Reevaluation

2004 • 182 citations

Mutual Mate Choice and Sex Differences in Choosiness

1996 • 179 citations

The Indirect Benefits of Mating with Attractive Males Outweigh the Direct Costs

2005 • 174 citations

Relating paternity to paternal care

2002 • 171 citations

Single‐Generation Estimates of Individual Fitness as Proxies for Long‐Term Genetic Contribution

2004 • 158 citations

Sperm competition and the evolution of gamete morphology in frogs

2003 • 157 citations

Sex Role Reversal in Pipefish

2003 • 155 citations

Sexual conflict and indirect benefits

2003 • 155 citations

Fisherian and “good genes” benefits of mate choice: how (not) to distinguish between them

2001 • 150 citations

Fitness effects of female mate choice: preferred males are detrimental for Drosophila melanogaster females

2003 • 149 citations

Density‐Dependent Sexual Selection in External Fertilizers: Variances in Male and Female Fertilization Success along the Continuum from Sperm Limitation to Sexual Conflict in the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus franciscanus

2004 • 148 citations

Evidence that sensory traps can evolve into honest signals

2005 • 141 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION, GENETIC ARCHITECTURE, AND THE CONDITION DEPENDENCE OF BODY SHAPE IN THE SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC FLY PROCHYLIZA XANTHOSTOMA (PIOPHILIDAE)

2005 • 135 citations

Changes in expression and honesty of sexual signalling over the reproductive lifetime of sticklebacks

2000 • 135 citations

The Handicap Mechanism of Sexual Selection Does Not Work

1986 • 131 citations

The evolution of anisogamy: a game-theoretic approach

2002 • 130 citations

Older males signal more reliably

2002 • 124 citations

Genotype–environment interaction and the reliability of mating signals

2004 • 123 citations

Perspective: Indirect Mate Choice, Competition for Mates, and Coevolution of the Sexes

1996 • 116 citations

A self–consistent approach to paternity and parental effort

2002 • 111 citations

A Large Cost of Female Mate Sampling in Pronghorn

2005 • 110 citations

The Evolution of Costly Mate Preferences I. Fisher and Biased Mutation

1991 • 109 citations

The Evolution of Parental Care in the Context of Sexual Selection: A Critical Reassessment of Parental Investment Theory

2002 • 107 citations

Negative genetic correlation for adult fitness between sexes reveals ontogenetic conflict in Drosophila

2001 • 107 citations

Escalation, Retreat, and Female Indifference as Alternative Outcomes of Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution

2005 • 106 citations

Multiple patterns of parental care

1999 • 106 citations

Multiple Sexual Ornaments Coevolve with Multiple Mating Preferences

1999 • 104 citations

PUTTING SEXUAL TRAITS INTO THE CONTEXT OF AN ORGANISM: A LIFE-HISTORY PERSPECTIVE IN STUDIES OF SEXUAL SELECTION

2002 • 104 citations

John Maynard Smith and the importance of consistency in evolutionary game theory

2006 • 102 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY FEMALE PREFERENCES: SPATIAL EFFECTS

2000 • 93 citations

Mate choice for offspring performance: major benefits or minor costs?

1998 • 90 citations

Female choice, conflict between the sexes and the evolution of male alternative reproductive behaviours

2000 • 80 citations

EGG DUMPING IN INSECTS

2004 • 76 citations

The uncertain evolution of the sexes

2001 • 69 citations

Variation in Response to Artificial Selection for Light Sensitivity in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

2001 • 65 citations

Variation, but no covariance, in female preference functions and male song in a natural population of Drosophila montana

2005 • 61 citations

Mate‐Search Efficiency Can Determine the Evolution of Separate Sexes and the Stability of Hermaphroditism in Animals

2002 • 60 citations

On Fisher-Zahavi's handicapped sexy son

2000 • 56 citations

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1997 • 54 citations

Evolution of the genetic covariance between male and female components of mate recognition: an experimental test

1999 • 46 citations

Treat ’em Mean, Keep ’em (sometimes) Keen: Evolution of Female Preferences for Dominant and Coercive Males

2005 • 46 citations

Costs of breeding and their effects on the direction of sexual selection

2005 • 41 citations

The evolution of mating preferences and sexually selected traits

1987 • 41 citations

Evolutionary Conflicts of Interest: Are Female Sexual Decisions Different?

2005 • 38 citations

Dynamics of the Caring Family

2003 • 33 citations

A Test of the “Sexy Son” Hypothesis: Sons of Polygynous Collared Flycatchers Do Not Inherit Their Fathers’ Mating Status

2006 • 33 citations

Darwinian adaptation, population genetics and the streetcar theory of evolution

1996 • 27 citations

Inferring the Origins of State‐Dependent Courtship Traits

2001 • 26 citations

Sexual selection when the female directly benefits

1993 • 24 citations

How Do We Decide that a Species is Sex‐Role Reversed?

2005 • 21 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION, GENETIC ARCHITECTURE, AND THE CONDITION DEPENDENCE OF BODY SHAPE IN THE SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC FLY PROCHYLIZA XANTHOSTOMA (PIOPHILIDAE)

2005 • 21 citations

Runaway sexual selection with paternal transmission of the male trait and gene-culture determination of the female preference

2003 • 17 citations

Evolution: Do Bad Husbands Make Good Fathers?

2005 • 16 citations

Quantifying male attractiveness

2003 • 14 citations

Correlated-response-to-selection experiments designed to test for a genetic correlation between female preferences and male traits yield biased results

1999 • 13 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF COSTLY FEMALE PREFERENCES: SPATIAL EFFECTS

2000 • 13 citations

A long-term genetic model for the evolution of sexual preference: the theories of Fisher and Zahavi re-examined

2002 • 8 citations

Models of selective mating and the initiation of the Fisherian process

1997 • 8 citations

How does mate choice contribute to exaggeration and diversity in sexual characters?

2001 • 4 citations