Browsing by Subject "Sexual Selection"
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The Function and Mechanisms of Female Ornamentation in a Lekking Bird
(2019-06-07)The study of male ornamentation has been fundamental to advancing the understanding of sexual selection, yet we are only now beginning to examine elaborate ornamentation of females. Although female ornamentation was once ... -
Genomic Insights into Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Reproductive Genes in Teleost Fishes
(2012-10-19)Sexual selection has long been a working explanation for the elaboration of appreciable traits in plants and animals, but the idea that it is an equally potent agent of change at the level of individual molecules is ... -
Geographic and temporal variation in the genetic mating systems of pipefish
(2009-06-02)Understanding the processes that govern mating behaviors is a fundamental goal of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology. Population-level patterns of mate acquisition and offspring production, otherwise known as the ... -
Implication of Estrogen Response Elements in Expression of Secondary Sex-Traits in the Sex-Role Reversed Gulf Pipefish, Syngnathus scovelli
(2019-06-06)Intralocus conflict, the differential selection optima for a genomic region, between males and females created by sexual selection can be resolved with the presence of sex-biased hormone response elements (HREs) in the ... -
Sexual Dimorphism in the Sceloporus undulatus Species Complex
(2012-10-19)The Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus complex) is a wide ranging North American species complex occurring from the eastern seaboard westward through the great plains and central Rocky Mountains and into the American ...