Sexual selection
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Sexual selection was first proposed by Charles Darwin and can be considered a “special case” of natural selection, by which fitness and reproductive success of an individual is primarily determined by its ability to choose or compete for a mate. Sexual selection has shaped morphological and behavioural adaptations across the tree of life, sometimes to extreme effect, from ornate plumage in birds-of-paradise, elaborate courtships in some spiders, to antlers in deer. Sexual selection can act before copulation (e.g., mating displays or outcompeting rivals), but also act after copulation (e.g., sperm competition). Defining the concept of sexual selection, the instances when it applies and processes underlying it, are active areas of research in evolutionary biology.
This Collection invites submissions on the latest research focusing on sexual selection, across the whole tree of life, welcoming integrative and multidisciplinary studies.
Editors
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Indrikis Krams
University of Latvia, Riga
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Satoshi Ogawa
Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
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Peter Schausberger
University of Vienna, Austria
