Chemical signals are omnipresent in sexual communication in the vast majority of living
organisms. The traditional paradigm was that their main purpose in sexual behaviour was to …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do
women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from …

Animals often need to signal to attract mates and behavioural signalling may impose
substantial energetic and fitness costs to signallers. Consequently, individuals often …

The acquisition of resources is an important determinant of patterns of variation in and
covariation among traits that are costly to produce and are dependent on condition for their …

1. Pheromones are chemical signals that function not only as mate attractors, but may also
relay important information to prospective mates. In order for the information to be reliable …

Females are expected to have different mating preferences because of the variation in costs
and benefits of mate choice both between females and within individual females over a …

Male–male competition and female mate choice act contemporaneously in the cockroach
Nauphoeta cinerea and the social pheromone of males influences the outcome of both …

Sexual selection is a major force driving the evolution of elaborate male sexual traits.
Handicap models of sexual selection predict that male sexual traits should covary positively …

In this review, I stress the importance of incorporating Quantitative Genetics (QG) in the study
of sexual selection through female mate choice. A short overview of QG principles and …