Mate choice sexual selection

Houck, L.D., Arnold, S.J. Thisted, R.A. 1985. A statistical study of mate choice sexual selection in a plethodontid salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus. Evolution, 39, 370—386. 

Sexual selection may favor the development of a trait in a direction (and to an extreme) not favored by natural selection. One can imagine that the peacock s tail, while effective at stimulating female mate choice (sexual selection), may also lead to increased costs of predation and survivorship for the male (natural selection). Sexual selection therefore can operate in the opposite direction from natural selection. The nature... 

Milinski, M. (2006) The major histocompatibility complex, sexual selection, and mate choice. Arm. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Sys. 2006, 159-186. 

Balancing sexual selection through opposing mate choice and male competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series 266 711-716. 

It has been known for many decades that odors influence animal behavior, including foraging, predator avoidance, alarm response, social dominance, cohort recognition, and courtship. Darwin (1871) initially proposed chemical signals as a key mechanism in mate choice by which sexual selection is promoted. However, it was not until the discovery of the silkworm moth pheromone bombykol by Butenandt et al. (1959)... 

Arnold, S. J., 1983, Sexual selection The interface of theory and empiricism, "Mate Choice," P. Bateson, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press., Cambridge. 

Halliday, T. R., 1978, Sexual selection and mate choice, Behavioural Ecology An Evolutionary Approach, J. R. Krebs, and N. B. Davies, eds., Blackwell Scientific Pubis., London. 

In this article, we review a research program on pheromonal communication in three congeneric skinks. The major emphases have been on social discriminations based on chemical cues, including choice of mates and agonistic opponents, on selective forces underlying the evolution of pheromonal communication (especially sexual selection), and on the anatomical site of pheromone production. 

Raghu S, Clarke AR (2003) Sexual selection in a tropical fruit fly role of a plant derived chemical in mate choice. Entomol Exp Appl 108 53-58... 

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