Sex-specific morphs exhibit discrete phenotypes, often including many disparate traits, that
are observed in only one sex. These morphs have evolved independently in many different …

Insect-pests significantly impact global agricultural productivity and quality. Effective
management involves identifying the full insect community, including beneficial insects and …

Animal contests involve threatening displays and physical coercion, which are respectively
performed by threat devices used in mutual evaluation of size or strength, and weapons …

Animal weapons are diverse and often exaggerated structures associated with sexual
selection and male–male combat. Despite their diversity, our knowledge of these structures …

Abstract During the Last Glacial Maximum in the Northern Hemisphere, expanding ice
sheets forced a large number of plants, including trees, to retreat from their primary …

In many species, competition for mates has led to exaggerated male sexually-selected traits.
Sexually-selected male weapons are used in male-male combat and include structures like …

Allometry is a common technique used by biologists to quantify and describe the
exaggerated sexually selected traits of beetles. While horned species have dominated …

Competition for mates can drive the evolution of exaggerated weaponry and male
dimorphism associated with alternative reproductive tactics. In terrestrial arthropods, male …

Size and shape constitute fundamental aspects in the description of morphology. Yet while
the developmental-genetic underpinnings of trait size, in particular with regard to scaling …

I used linear and nonlinear regression to re-examine the allometric relationship between
length of the cephalic horn and width of the pronotum (a measure of body size) for males of …