Understanding how the brain implements social behavior on one hand, and how social
processes feedback on the brain to promote fine-tuning of behavioral output according to …

Male-only parental care, while rare in most animals, is a widespread strategy within teleost
fish. The costs and benefits to males of acting as sole carer are highly variable among fish …

Human societies demand of its composing members the development of a wide array of
social tools and strategies. A notable example is human outstanding ability to cooperate with …

Blenniid fish exhibit a polygynandric mating system with parental care restricted to males.
Nest-holder males defend a breeding territory centered on their nest, usually a crevice or …

Our understanding of sexual selection has greatly improved during the last decades. The
focus is no longer solely on males, but also on how female competition and male mate …

Female mate choice is often based on male traits, including signals or behaviors, and/or the
quality of a male's territory. In species with obligate paternal care, where care directly affects …

Abstract Background Many Ophidiidae are active in dark environments and display complex
sonic apparatus morphologies. However, sound recordings are scarce and little is known …

The strategy females use to sample potential mates can influence mate choice and thus
sexual selection. We examined the mate sampling strategy of the cricket Gryllus lineaticeps …

Of all vertebrates, fish exhibit unparalleled diversity of sexual plasticity and flexibility, ranging
from gonochorism to unisexualism, and exceptional patterns of functional hermaphroditism …

This article extends and adds more realism to Lande's analytical model for evolution under
mate choice by using individual‐based simulations in which females sample a finite number …