The past two decades have seen extensive growth of sexual selection research. Theoretical
and empirical work has clarified many components of pre-and postcopulatory sexual …

Empirical studies of sexual selection typically focus on one of the two mechanisms of sexual
selection without integrating these into a description of total sexual selection, or study total …

Sexual selection theory makes clear predictions regarding male spermatogenic investment.
To test these predictions we used experimental sexual selection in Drosophila …

It is well known that sexual selection can target reproductive traits during successive pre‐
and post‐mating episodes of selection. A key focus of recent studies has been to understand …

To a large extent, the success of evolutionary ecology stems from its focus on individual
variation and acknowledging that individuals vary in predictable ways. Sexual selection is …

Sexual selection can explain major micro‐and macro‐evolutionary patterns. Much of current
theory predicts that the strength of sexual selection (i) is driven by the relative abundance of …

The female reproductive tract is where competition between the sperm of different males
takes place, aided and abetted by the female herself. Intense postcopulatory sexual …

The plethora of studies devoted to the topics of male competition and female mate choice
belie the fact that their interaction remains poorly understood. Indeed, on the question of …

Publisher Summary Sperm competition is the competition between the ejaculates of different
males for the fertilization of a given set of ova. Charles Darwin (1871) proposed sexual …

The adaptive nature of female mate choice remains one of the most contentious issues in
the study of sexual selection. Here, I provide evidence that mate choice by females of the …