IntroductionSexual selection is a powerful source of rapid evolutionary change, and there is a long-standing hypothesis that it can cause reproductive isolation. However, our understanding of speciation by sexual sele...IntroductionSexual selection is a powerful source of rapid evolutionary change, and there is a long-standing hypothesis that it can cause reproductive isolation. However, our understanding of speciation by sexual selection is largely limited to mechanisms by which sexual selection via female mate choice can drive divergence （i.e., when male mating signals and female preferences for those signals diversify; Panhuis et al. 2001; Maan and Seehausen 2011）. Male competition for mates--Darwin＇s second mechanism of sexual selection-can also favor rapid and dramatic phenotypic and genotypic changes, yet it has been all but overlooked in speciation research （Darwin 1859, 1871; Seehausen and Schluter 2004;展开更多
基金The invitation to guest edit this special column resulted from a symposium co-organized by ACRL, MDM, and RMT at the 2016 congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, and travel expenses for all authors were supported in part by the National Science Foundation （IOS- 1637252）. While guest editing this special column, ACRL was supported by NSF （DEB-1638997） and the Watershed Studies Institute at Murray State University. RMT was supported by NSF （IOS-1601531） and the University of Denver＇s Office of the Associate Provost of Research.
文摘IntroductionSexual selection is a powerful source of rapid evolutionary change, and there is a long-standing hypothesis that it can cause reproductive isolation. However, our understanding of speciation by sexual selection is largely limited to mechanisms by which sexual selection via female mate choice can drive divergence （i.e., when male mating signals and female preferences for those signals diversify; Panhuis et al. 2001; Maan and Seehausen 2011）. Male competition for mates--Darwin＇s second mechanism of sexual selection-can also favor rapid and dramatic phenotypic and genotypic changes, yet it has been all but overlooked in speciation research （Darwin 1859, 1871; Seehausen and Schluter 2004;
