Taking the sensory approach: how individual differences in sensory perception can influence mate choice
Many male signallers convey information to female receivers in multimodal courtship displays. While much is known about how males vary in terms of signalling, variation in female detection of these multimodal signals is relatively unexplored. We suggest that there is a critical, albeit underdeveloped, link between multimodal sensory reception and individual variation in mate choice. […]
The effect of operational sex ratio on the opportunity for sexual selection: a meta-analysis
The proportion of sexually receptive males in relation to females (operational sex ratio, OSR) is often invoked as an important determinant of the potential for sexual selection. Although the opportunity for sexual selection metric (Is) is frequently used to estimate such potential, recent doubts have been cast about its capacity to disentangle the relative effect […]