4.5 Article

It is not always about body size: evidence of Rensch's rule in a male weapon

Related references

Note: Only part of the references are listed.
Article Biology

It is not always about body size: evidence of Rensch's rule in a male weapon

Glauco Machado et al.

Summary: In many species, sexual dimorphism increases with body size when males are the larger sex but decreases when females are the larger sex, a macro-evolutionary pattern known as Rensch's rule. In this study, it was found that males were slightly smaller than females and body size did not follow Rensch's rule, whereas the length of the fourth pair of legs in males followed Rensch's rule. It is suggested that sexual selection might be stronger on the length of the fourth pair of legs than on body size in males, and the potential role of condition dependence in the emergence of Rensch's rule is discussed.

BIOLOGY LETTERS (2021)

Article Biology

Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons

Devin M. O'Brien et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (2019)

Review Biology

Sexual Selection and Static Allometry: The Importance of Function

William G. Eberhard et al.

QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY (2018)

Article Ecology

Sexual dichromatism in wing pigmentation of New World dragonflies follows Rensch's rule

E. S. A. Santos et al.

JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2016)

Article Psychology, Biological

Male dimorphism and alternative reproductive tactics in harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones)

Bruno A. Buzatto et al.

BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES (2014)

Article Ecology

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

Liam J. Revell

METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2012)

Article Behavioral Sciences

Alternative mating tactics in dimorphic males of the harvestman Longiperna concolor (Arachnida: Opiliones)

Camila Zatz et al.

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY (2011)

Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Intralocus Sexual Conflict Unresolved by Sex-Limited Trait Expression

Tomohiro Harano et al.

CURRENT BIOLOGY (2010)

Review Ecology

Intralocus sexual conflict

Russell Bonduriansky et al.

TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2009)

Review Ecology

Sexual selection, sexual size dimorphism and Rensch's rule in Odonata

M. A. Serrano-Meneses et al.

JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2008)

Article Biology

Sexual selection explains Rensch's rule of allometry for sexual size dimorphism

James Dale et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (2007)

Article Ecology

The evolution of condition-dependent sexual dimorphism

Russell Bonduriansky

AMERICAN NATURALIST (2007)

Article Biochemical Research Methods

APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language

E Paradis et al.

BIOINFORMATICS (2004)

Review Ecology

Genic capture and resolving the lek paradox

JL Tomkins et al.

TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2004)

Review Ecology

Intersexual ontogenetic conflict

WR Rice et al.

JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2001)