Parasites, bright males, and the immunocompetence handicap

I Folstad, AJ Karter - The American Naturalist, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
It has been argued that females should be able to choose parasite-resistant mates on the
basis of the quality of male secondary sexual characters and that such signals must be …

Costs of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals

DEL Promislow - Proceedings of the Royal Society of …, 1992 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Models of sexual selection typically assume a cost to the production and maintenance of
sexually selected traits. However, within a population, individuals of high phenotypic quality …

Postmating Mortality of Males in the Dasyurid Marsupials, Dasyurus and Parantechinus

CR Dickman, RW Braithwaite - Journal of Mammalogy, 1992 - academic.oup.com
Postmating death of all males is reported for the first time in field populations of two species
of dasyurid marsupials, Parantechinus apicalis and Dasyurus hallucatus. These results differ …

Differential habitat use by a local population of the velvet-furred rat, Rattus lutreolus velutinus (Thomas 1882), in wet sclerophyll forest, SE Tasmania

V Monamy - 1992 - figshare.utas.edu.au
This study investigates a reported decline in the proportion of male Rattus lutreolus velutinus
in a trappable population during winter. A four hectare trapping grid was maintained …

Stress, glucocorticoids, and aging

RM Sapolsky, RM Sapolsky - Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1992 - Springer
Attention has long been focused on the relationship between stress and aging, both under
the guise of stress as an accelerator of normal aging and of aging as a time of impaired …