A functional approach to sexual selection

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How does selection operate on whole-organism functional performance capacities? A review and synthesis (2008, background): “However, high performance also presents some potential benefits in a sexual selection context (Irschick et al., 2007b; Husak and Fox, 2008).”
Female mate choice based upon male motor performance (2010, background): “This hypothesis has numerous precedents (e.g. Ryan and Keddy-Hector, 1992; Rowe and Houle, 1996; Irschick et al., 2007) but remains largely unappreciated in the broader literature on sexual selection.”
Sexual selection on locomotor performance (2008, background): “However, both natural and sexual selection may favour better locomotor performers (Arnold, 1983; Pough, 1989; Irschick and Garland, 2001; Irschick et al., 2007).”
The fitness advantage of a high‐performance weapon (2009, background): “Classic studies of presumed sexually-selected traits have typically focused on the intensity of sexual selection on measures of weapon anatomy (Andersson, 1994), leaving the term ‘quality’ ambiguous in an evolutionary context (Lailvaux & Irschick, 2006; Irschick et al., 2007).”