Female choice response to artificial selection on an exaggerated male trait in a stalk-eyed fly

@article{Wilkinson1994FemaleCR,
  title={Female choice response to artificial selection on an exaggerated male trait in a stalk-eyed fly},
  author={Gerald S. Wilkinson and Paul R. Reillo},
  journal={Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences},
  year={1994},
  volume={255},
  pages={1 - 6}
}
  • G. Wilkinson, P. R. Reillo
  • Published 1994
  • Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
Quantitative genetic models for the evolution of exaggerated male traits through female mate choice predict that selection on male ornaments should cause a correlated response in female preferences. Furthermore, female selectivity should be inversely related to costs of mate choice. Here we use a stalkeyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni (Diptera:Diopsidae), which exhibits pronounced sexual dimorphism in eye span, to evaluate these predictions. Field observations reveal that each evening females… Expand
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