In many vertebrates, individuals choose mates due to benefits accrued via the production of
offspring of high genetic quality. Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) …

Understanding how novel environmental conditions presented by urbanization affect the
ecology and behavior of species is an important component of global change biology …

To humans, the diverse array of display behaviors that animals use for communication can
easily seem peculiar or bizarre. While ample research delves into the evolutionary principles …

Members of the Nearctic spider genus Schizocosa Chamberlin, 1904 have garnered much
attention in behavioral studies and over many decades, a number of species have …

Social animals are expected to face a trade-off between producing a signal that is detectible
by mates and rivals, but not obvious to predators. This trade-off is fundamental for …

Visual ornaments have long been assumed to evolve hyper‐allometry as an outcome of
sexual selection. Yet growing evidence suggests many sexually selected morphologies can …

With functions as diverse as communication, protection and thermoregulation, coloration is
one of the most important traits in lizards. The ability to change colour as a function of …

It has been argued that disproportionately larger ornaments in bigger males—positive
allometry—is the outcome of sexual selection operating on the size of condition dependent …

Complexity and diversity are fundamental characteristics of life, but the relationship between
the two remains murky. For example, both gaining and losing complexity can support …

Convergence in communication appears rare compared with other forms of adaptation. This
is puzzling, given communication is acutely dependent on the environment and expected to …