CONDITION DEPENDENCE OF SEXUAL ORNAMENT SIZE AND VARIATION IN THE STALK-EYED FLY CYRTODIOPSIS DALMANNI (DIPTERA: DIOPSIDAE)

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The size of the red wing spot of the American rubyspot as a heightened condition-dependent ornament (2008, background): “Detailed cases like this are scarce in the literature, which led Cotton et al. (2004b) to propose that most experimental evidence gathered so far derives from studies that lack comparisons of condition dependence and expression of both ornamental and nonornamental traits, thus failing to show…”
Courtship effort is a better predictor of mating success than ornamentation for male wolf spiders (2009, background): “One such hypothesis that has received much attention is the handicap principle (reviewed in Andersson 1994; Johnstone 1995; Cotton et al. 2004a; Andersson and Simmons 2006).”