Sexual selection has resulted in some of the most captivating features of insects, including
flashy colors, bizarre structures, and complex pheromones. These features evolve in …

Urbanisation can affect mating opportunities and thereby alter inter‐and intra‐sexual
selection pressures on sexual traits. Biotic and abiotic urban conditions can influence an …

ABSTRACT A central question in ecology and evolution is to understand why sexual
selection varies so much in strength across taxa; it has long been known that ecological …

Pollution (eg by chemicals, noise, light, heat) is an insidious consequence of anthropogenic
activity that affects environments worldwide. Exposure of wildlife to pollutants has the …

Developmental stressors are increasingly recognised for their pervasive influence on the
ecology and evolution of animals. In particular, many studies have focused on how …

Mate choice hypotheses usually focus on trait variation of chosen individuals. Recently,
mate choice studies have increasingly attended to the environmental circumstances …

Schizocosa wolf spiders show tremendous diversity in courtship complexity, with different
species employing varying numbers of components within and across sensory modalities …

Highlights•We tested the effect of male density* female age on female mate choice in field
crickets.•We measured female choosiness as the time spent near a low-quality …

Female mate choice decisions are often based on a variety of male characteristics, some of
which may reflect male quality via condition-dependent trait expression. Here, we explore …

Mate choice in most organisms is not random, but determined by a suite of interacting traits
and environmental factors. While the selective pressures underlying differences in mate …