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| Mark W BlowsSummaryAffiliation: University of Queensland Country: Australia Publications
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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...
Measuring nonlinear selectionMark W Blows
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
Am Nat 162:815-20. 2003
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...- 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... - Debating sexual selection and mating strategiesTommaso Pizzari
Science 312:689-97; author reply 689-97. 2006 - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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...