Here, we review the recently burgeoning literature on color polymorphisms, seeking to
integrate studies of the maintenance of genetic variation and the evolution of reproductive …

Colour polymorphisms (CP's) continue to be of interest to evolutionary biologists because of
their general tractability, importance in studies of selection and potential role in speciation …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has emerged as an archetype of eukaryotic
cell biology. Here we show that S. cerevisiae is also a model for the evolution of cooperative …

The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic human pathogen that uses a
quorum sensing signal cascade to activate expression of dozens of genes when sufficient …

Animal personalities are common across taxa and have important evolutionary and
ecological implications. Such consistent individual differences correlate with important life …

Modern game theory goes back to a series of papers by the mathematician John von
Neumann in the 1920s. This program started a completely new branch of social sciences …

Hamilton's inclusive fitness theory provides a leading explanation for the problem of
cooperation. A general result from inclusive fitness theory is that, except under restrictive …

The study of coloration in the polyphyletic reptilians has flourished in the last two decades, in
particular with respect to the underlying genetics of colour traits, the function of colours in …