Across taxa, sexual communication is fundamental to an organism's reproductive fitness,
and ultimately, its evolutionary success. Consequently, strong selection pressures often lead …

A long-standing goal for biologists has been to understand how female preferences operate
in systems where males have evolved numerous sexually selected traits. Jumping spiders of …

Research on animal signaling enhances our understanding of links between sensory
processing, decision making, behavior, and evolution. Studies of sexually-selected signals …

Identifying the various factors that influence complex signal evolution is a difficult task, yet it
is fundamental to understanding the evolution of animal communication. Here we explore …

Highlights•Female spiders did not show preference for male characters at the population
level.•Larger males sired more spiderlings.•Offspring survival and feeding performance did …

Polymorphism can arise across taxa due to various selection pressures and potentially lead
to alternative mating or antipredator strategies. For male jumping spiders, sexual selection …

Male courtship signals often stimulate female sense organs whose sensitivities originally
evolved under natural selection. In classic female choice models of sexual selection …

Differences between males and females can evolve through a variety of mechanisms,
including sexual and ecological selection. Because coloration is evolutionarily labile …

Understanding diversity has been a pursuit in evolutionary biology since its inception. A
challenge arises when sexual selection has played a role in diversification. Questions of …

Sexual selection drives the evolution of male morphology, life history, physiology, and
behaviour across taxa. Here I examine the mechanisms of sexual selection that arise at …