How barriers to gene flow arise and are maintained are key questions in evolutionary
biology. Speciation research has mainly focused on barriers that occur either before mating …

Behavioural analysis has been attracting significant attention as a broad indicator of sub‐
lethal toxicity and has secured a place as an important subdiscipline in ecotoxicology …

The paradigm of 'selective females' and 'competing males' has evolved into a multifactorial
interpretation of reproductive decisions, which can lead to prudence in reproductive efforts …

Males are often predicted to prefer virgin over non‐virgin females because of the reduced
risk of sperm competition. Does this prediction hold across studies? Our systematic meta …

Sexual selection has been a popular subject within evolutionary biology because of its
central role in explaining odd and counterintuitive traits observed in nature. Consequently …

Behaviours can be adaptively correlated with each other and with other aspects of
phenotype. We investigated behaviour across foraging, mating, and risk contexts in females …

Past reproductive effort allows males to assess their ability to acquire mates, but it also
consumes resources that can reduce their future competitive ability. Few studies have …

The pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner and Buhrer 1934) causes
pine wilt disease, which severely affects the biodiversity and economy of Eurasian …

Highlights•Mating often leads to a reduction in how sexually responsive individuals are.•I
performed a meta-analysis comparing the effect of mating on responsiveness.•Across 26 …

Higher male: female operational sex ratio (OSR) is often assumed to lead to stronger sexual
selection on males. Yet, this premise has been directly tested by very few studies, with mixed …