As parental care is costly, it can be expected that there will be a sexual conflict between parents over the individual levels of parental investment because each parent has limited …
Extra‐pair paternity (EPP) has been broadly reported in socially monogamous bird species and it has been hypothesized that females engage in extra‐pair copulations to increase the …
According to theory, in species in which male variance in reproductive success exceeds that of the females, sons are more costly to produce; females mated with high quality males or …
TB Egeland, ES Egeland, JT Nordeide - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Females in mutually ornamented species are often less conspicuously ornamented than their male conspecifics. It has been hypothesized that offspring quality may decrease if …