Condition-dependent signaling affects male sexual attractiveness in field crickets, Gryllus campestris

By B. Holzer, A. Jacot, M. Brinkhof. 2003

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Courtship effort is a better predictor of mating success than ornamentation for male wolf spiders (2009, background): “Such diet manipulations have been successful in demonstrating conditiondependent secondary sexual trait expression across a variety of animal taxa (e.g., spiders: Uetz et al. 2002; crickets: Holzer et al. 2003; and birds: McGraw et al. 2002).”
Diet influences mate choice selectivity in adult female wolf spiders (2008, background): “Several recent studies, however, suggest that the nutritional quality of food can influence a variety of behaviors in arthropods, including courtship (Wagner and Hoback, 1999; Holzer et al., 2003; Hunt et al., 2004; Bertram et al., 2006) and mating (Mallard & Barnard, 2004).”