This research was funded in part by an Animal Behavior Society Student Research Grant provided to NSR.
In sexually dimorphic species characterized by exaggerated male ornamentation,behavioral isola-tion is often attributed to female preferences for conspecific male signals.Yet,in a number of sexu-ally dimorphic species...
The use of artificial stimuli in tests of animal behavior are common,and as technological advances increase,opportunities for the use of 3D computer animations in behavioral tests are becoming increasingly available(W...
Acknowledgements We thank Michael Martin, Tory Williams, and Alex Nahm for assistance in collecting fishes and the Mendelson lab for assistance in fish maintenance. We thank Chioma Ihekweazu for assistance with spectral analysis. We also thank Karen Carleton for use of the software to calculate spectral location. Tom Cronin, Kevin Omland, Megan Porter, Kate Feller, Nick Friedman and Brian Dalton provided helpful discussions throughout the course of this work. We thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments on previous versions of this manuscript. We especially thank Eileen Hebets for the invitation to submit to this special issue. This work was funded through a National Science Foundation grant to TCM (#DEB 0718987). Additional support for this work came from the NSF, NCEAS and NESCENT funded "Comparative Phylogenetics in R" workshop attended by JMG.
As complex traits evolve, each component of the trait may be under different selection pressures and could respond independently to distinct evolutionary forces. We used comparative methods to examine patterns of evol...
funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (IOB-0450807) to S.H.A.;by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship to K.A.S.;by Yale University
Theory suggests that males that are larger than their competitors may have increased mating success, due to both greater competitive ability and increased attractiveness to females. We examined how male mating suceess...