• DOI:10.1098/rspb.1994.0001
Corpus ID: 5769457

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={G. Wilkinson and P. 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… CONTINUE READING

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