BACKGROUND The interdisciplinary field of animal coloration is growing rapidly, spanning
questions about the diverse ways that animals use pigments and structures to generate …

Sexual selection plays several intricate and complex roles in the related processes of local
adaptation and speciation. In some cases sexual selection can promote these processes …

Animal communication studies often use analogies to human language and related
constructs such as information encoding and transfer. This commonality is evident even …

Our view of the evolution of sexually selected traits and preferences was influenced radically
in the 1990s by studies that emphasized how signals interact with sensory properties of …

The recognition that animals sense the world in a different way than we do has unlocked
important lines of research in ecology and evolutionary biology. In practice, the subjective …

Rapid colour change is a remarkable natural phenomenon that has evolved in several
vertebrate and invertebrate lineages. The two principal explanations for the evolution of this …

Researchers typically define animal signaling as morphology or behavior specialized for
transmitting encoded information from a signaler to a perceiver. Although intuitively …

It has been 25 years since the formalization of the Sensory Drive hypothesis was published
in the American Naturalist (1992). Since then, there has been an explosion of research …

Environmental differences influence the evolutionary divergence of mating signals through
selection acting either directly on signal transmission (“sensory drive”) or because …

Ecological variation appears to underlie the evolution of mating signals in many taxa, yet
understanding of how this process occurs over time is limited. Here, I investigate whether …