Sexual selection plays several intricate and complex roles in the related processes of local
adaptation and speciation. In some cases sexual selection can promote these processes …

Sexual conflict occurs when selection acts in opposing directions on males and females.
Case studies in both vertebrates and invertebrates indicate that sexual conflict maintains …

Climate change is affecting biodiversity, but proximate drivers remain poorly understood.
Here, we examine how experimental heatwaves impact on reproduction in an insect system …

There is clear evidence for sublethal effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on non-target
ecosystem service-providing insects. However, their possible impact on male insect …

Flour beetles of the genus Tribolium have been utilised as informative study systems for over
a century and contributed to major advances across many fields. This review serves to …

Sexual selection has the potential to decrease mean fitness in a population through an array
of costs to nonsexual fitness. These costs may be offset when sexual selection favors …

The evolution of costly traits such as deer antlers and peacock trains, which drove the
formation of Darwinian sexual selection theory, has been suggested to both reflect and affect …

ABSTRACT A central question in ecology and evolution is to understand why sexual
selection varies so much in strength across taxa; it has long been known that ecological …

Thermal ecology and mate competition are both pervasive features of ecological adaptation.
A surge of recent work has uncovered the diversity of ways in which temperature affects …

Sexual selection favours traits that confer advantages in the competition for mates. In many
cases, such traits are costly to produce and maintain, because the costs help to enforce the …