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Interaction between natural and sexual selection during the evolution of mate recognitionMark W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 269:1113-8. 2002..This experiment demonstrated that the interaction between natural and sexual selection is critical in determining the direction and magnitude of the evolutionary response of the mate recognition system...
Exploring complex fitness surfaces: multiple ornamentation and polymorphism in male guppiesMark W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia
Evolution 57:1622-30. 2003..Disruptive selection may be an important process underlying the presence of multiple sexual ornaments and may contribute to the maintenance of the high levels of polymorphism in male sexual ornaments found in guppy populations...- The depletion of genetic variance by sexual selectionAnna Van Homrigh
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Curr Biol 17:528-32. 2007..A lack of genetic variance in male traits in the direction of sexual selection may represent a general feature of sexually selected systems, even in the presence of condition-dependent trait expression... - Evolution of the genetic covariance between male and female components of mate recognition: an experimental testM W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 266:2169-74. 1999..The subsequent decline in genetic correlation may be attributable to the fixation of major genes, or, alternatively, may be a result of a cyclic evolutionary change in mate recognition... - Orientation of the genetic variance-covariance matrix and the fitness surface for multiple male sexually selected traitsMark W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Am Nat 163:329-40. 2004..Associating the eigenstructure of G with vectors of linear and nonlinear selection may provide a way of determining what long-term changes in G may be generated by the processes of natural and sexual selection... - Genetic constraints on the evolution of mate recognition under natural selectionMark W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Am Nat 161:240-53. 2003.... - Evolutionary experiments on mate recognition in the Drosophila serrata species complexMark W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Genetica 116:239-50. 2002.... - Substantial changes in the genetic basis of tadpole morphology of Rana lessonae in the presence of predatorsP G Kraft
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
J Evol Biol 19:1813-8. 2006..Body size may therefore be able to respond to selection independently in the two environments to some extent... - Genetic variance in female condition predicts indirect genetic variance in male sexual display traitsDonna Petfield
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:6045-50. 2005..8% of the indirect genetic variance in male CHCs. These indirect genetic effects have the potential to alter the response to selection of male sexual display traits... - Natural selection and the reinforcement of mate recognitionM Higgie
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia
Science 290:519-21. 2000..serrata populations remained unchanged. Our experiment indicates that natural selection on mate recognition resulted in the field pattern of reproductive character displacement... 
Q(St) meets the G matrix: the dimensionality of adaptive divergence in multiple correlated quantitative traitsStephen F Chenoweth
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, QLD, Australia
Evolution 62:1437-49. 2008....- The evolution of reproductive character displacement conflicts with how sexual selection operates within a speciesMegan Higgie
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
Evolution 62:1192-203. 2008..Sympatric populations display suboptimal phenotypes relative to their allopatric conspecifics. The combination of reinforcement and sexual selection can therefore generate divergence in female preferences and male display traits... - Genetic constraints and the evolution of display trait sexual dimorphism by natural and sexual selectionStephen F Chenoweth
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Am Nat 171:22-34. 2008..However, sex-specific responses to natural and sexual selection contrasted with the classic model because sexual selection affected females rather than males... - Are traits that experience reinforcement also under sexual selection?Megan Higgie
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Am Nat 170:409-20. 2007..Male attractiveness within D. serrata may therefore be compromised by reinforcing selection, preventing the spread of sympatric-like blends to the area of allopatry... - An evolutionary limit to male mating successKatrina McGuigan
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Evolution 62:1528-37. 2008..Persistent directional selection, such as applied by female mate choice, may erode genetic variance, resulting in multitrait evolutionary limits... - Genetic analysis of female preference functions as function-valued traitsKatrina McGuigan
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Am Nat 172:194-202. 2008.... - An expressed sequence tag (EST) library for Drosophila serrata, a model system for sexual selection and climatic adaptation studiesFrancesca D Frentiu
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
BMC Genomics 10:40. 2009..serrata that will enable the identification of genes underlying sexually-selected phenotypes and physiological responses to environmental change and may help resolve controversial phylogenetic relationships within the montium subgroup... - Asymmetry of genetic variation in fitness-related traits: apparent stabilizing selection on g(max)Katrina McGuigan
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
Evolution 63:2838-47. 2009..Simple metrics of genetic variance are unlikely to be adequate descriptors of the complex nature of the genetic basis of traits under selection... - The contribution of selection and genetic constraints to phenotypic divergenceStephen F Chenoweth
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia 4072
Am Nat 175:186-96. 2010.... - Experimental evidence for the evolution of indirect genetic effects: changes in the interaction effect coefficient, psi (Psi), due to sexual selectionStephen F Chenoweth
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia 4072
Evolution 64:1849-56. 2010..Our results indicate a further mechanism by which IGEs can alter evolutionary trajectories--the evolution of interaction effects themselves... - Evolvability of individual traits in a multivariate context: partitioning the additive genetic variance into common and specific componentsKatrina McGuigan
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
Evolution 64:1899-911. 2010..The identification of genetic variance in focal traits that is independent of other traits provides a way of studying the evolvability of individual traits within the broader context of the multivariate phenotype... - Pleiotropy, apparent stabilizing selection and uncovering fitness optimaKatrina McGuigan
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 26:22-9. 2011..Defining fitness optima in this way could provide one avenue by which researchers can overcome the problem posed by measuring the myriad of traits that must influence fitness, or by measuring total fitness itself... - Natural selection stops the evolution of male attractivenessEmma Hine
School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:3659-64. 2011..Our results suggest that sexual selection is unlikely to cause divergence among natural populations without a concomitant change in natural selection, a conclusion consistent with observational evidence from natural populations... - The phenotypic and genetic covariance structure of drosphilid wingsKatrina McGuigan
School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Evolution 61:902-11. 2007..The observed mismatch in dimensionality between P and G suggests that although selection might act to shift the intragenerational population mean toward any trait combination, evolution may be restricted to fewer dimensions... 
Divergent selection and the evolution of signal traits and mating preferencesHoward D Rundle
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
PLoS Biol 3:e368. 2005....- Contrasting mutual sexual selection on homologous signal traits in Drosophila serrataStephen F Chenoweth
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia
Am Nat 165:281-9. 2005..Possible mechanisms determining the nonlinear nature of sexual selection on female CHCs are proposed... - Multivariate quantitative genetics and the lek paradox: genetic variance in male sexually selected traits of Drosophila serrata under field conditionsEmma Hine
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Evolution 58:2754-62. 2004..Sustained sexual selection may be adequate to deplete genetic variance in the direction of selection, perhaps as a consequence of the low rate of favorable mutations expected in multiple trait systems... - Measuring nonlinear selectionMark W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Am Nat 162:815-20. 2003 - Genetic covariance between indices of body condition and immunocompetence in a passerine birdDeborah J Gleeson
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
BMC Evol Biol 5:61. 2005..It remains unknown, therefore, whether females selecting males with good body condition simply obtain a healthy mate, or if they acquire genes for their offspring that confer high immunocompetence... - Signal trait sexual dimorphism and mutual sexual selection in Drosophila serrataStephen F Chenoweth
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia
Evolution 57:2326-34. 2003..The evolution of sexual dimorphism in D. serrata appears to have been achieved by sex-limited expression of traits controlled by genes on the X chromosome and is likely to be in its final stages... - Determining the effective dimensionality of the genetic variance-covariance matrixEmma Hine
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Genetics 173:1135-44. 2006..The bootstrap approach consistently overestimated the number of dimensions in all cases and performed less well than Amemiya's method at subspace recovery... - Evolution of additive and nonadditive genetic variance in development time along a cline in Drosophila serrataCarla M Sgrò
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia
Evolution 57:1846-51. 2003.... - Characterizing the evolution of genetic variance using genetic covariance tensorsEmma Hine
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1567-78. 2009..Divergence in G was primarily in the direction of the major axes of genetic variance within populations, suggesting that genetic drift may be a major cause of divergence in genetic variance among these populations... - Measuring natural and sexual selection on breeding values of male display traits in Drosophila serrataA Skroblin
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
J Evol Biol 19:35-41. 2006..Opposing natural and sexual selection suggests that further evolution of the male pheromone may in part be limited by costs associated with attractive male CHC blends... - Male choice generates stabilizing sexual selection on a female fecundity correlateS F Chenoweth
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
J Evol Biol 20:1745-50. 2007.... - Dissecting the complex genetic basis of mate choiceStephen F Chenoweth
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Nat Rev Genet 7:681-92. 2006.... - Natural genetic variation in cuticular hydrocarbon expression in male and female Drosophila melanogasterBrad Foley
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia
Genetics 175:1465-77. 2007..This is consistent with a pattern of divergent sexual and natural selection between the sexes... - Pedigree-free animal models: the relatedness matrix reloadedFrancesca D Frentiu
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 275:639-47. 2008..It remains to be determined whether this problem can be overcome by the use of a more powerful battery of molecular markers and improved methods for reconstructing genealogies... - Phenotypic divergence along lines of genetic varianceKatrina McGuigan
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Am Nat 165:32-43. 2005.... - Predator-induced phenotypic plasticity in tadpoles: extension or innovation?P G Kraft
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
J Evol Biol 19:450-8. 2006..In addition, nonlinear selection gradients indicated a cost of predator-induced plasticity that may limit the ability of phenotypic plasticity to enhance survival in the presence of predators... - A tale of two matrices: multivariate approaches in evolutionary biologyM W Blows
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
J Evol Biol 20:1-8. 2007..Applying this, and other related approaches, to the analysis of the structure of gamma and G matrices, gives greater insight into the form and strength of nonlinear selection, and the availability of genetic variance for multiple traits... - Positive genetic correlation between female preference and offspring fitnessEmma Hine
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 269:2215-9. 2002.... - The roles of natural and sexual selection during adaptation to a novel environmentHoward D Rundle
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Evolution 60:2218-25. 2006..How novel environments affect the operation of good-genes mate choice is a fundamental question for future sexual selection research... - Experimental evidence for multivariate stabilizing sexual selectionRobert Brooks
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Evolution 59:871-80. 2005..These experiments indicate that stabilizing sexual selection may play an important role in the evolution of male call properties in natural populations of T. commodus... - The genetic covariance among clinal environments after adaptation to an environmental gradient in Drosophila serrataCarla M Sgrò
Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3083, Victoria, Australia
Genetics 167:1281-91. 2004..Adaptation to clinal environments may involve a number of distinct genetic effects along the length of the cline, the complexity of which may not be fully revealed by focusing primarily on populations at the ends of the cline... - Debating sexual selection and mating strategiesTommaso Pizzari
Science 312:689-97; author reply 689-97. 2006 - Estimating nonlinear selection gradients using quadratic regression coefficients: double or nothing?John R Stinchcombe
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada
Evolution 62:2435-40. 2008..Proper treatment of quadratic regression coefficients is necessary for estimation of fitness surfaces and contour plots, canonical analysis of the gamma matrix, and modeling the evolution of populations on an adaptive landscape... - Cuticular hydrocarbons of Drosophila birchii and D. serrata: identification and role in mate choice in D. serrataRalph W Howard
USDA ARS, 1515 College Avenue Manhattan, Kansas 66502, USA
J Chem Ecol 29:961-76. 2003..serrata males with higher relative abundances of the 2-methyl alkanes, but lower relative abundances of (Z,Z)-5.9-C24:2 and (Z)-9-C25:1... - Reconciling strong stabilizing selection with the maintenance of genetic variation in a natural population of black field crickets (Teleogryllus commodus)John Hunt
Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney 2052, Australia
Genetics 177:875-80. 2007.... - Age determination in individual wild-caught Drosophila serrata using pteridine concentrationSimon K A Robson
School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4812, Australia
J Exp Biol 209:3155-63. 2006..The ability to determine relative age in individual wild-caught D. serrata presents great opportunities for a variety of evolutionary studies on the dynamics of natural populations...