Male mate choice and female fecundity in zebra finches

By Katherine M. Jones, P. Monaghan, R. Nager. 2001

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Can beggars be choosers? Male mate choice in a fiddler crab (2007, background): “…male mate choice in species where females show strong mating preferences and/or there is intense malee male competition has been found in a wide range of taxa, from insects to mammals (Sargent et al. 1986; Olsson 1993; Verrell 1995; Goshima et al. 1996; Jones et al. 2001; Craig et al. 2002).”
Sexual selection in females (2009, background): “…et al. 1986; Berglund & Rosenqvist 2001, 2003; Kvarnemo et al. 2007), lizards (LeBas & Marshall 2000; Orrell & Jenssen 2002), birds (Amundsen 2000b; Jones et al. 2001; Schamel et al. 2004; Torres & Velando 2005; Kraaijeveld et al. 2007) and mammals (Herbert 1968; Berger 1989; Keddy-Hector 1992;…”
Males prefer ornamented females: a field experiment of male choice in the rock sparrow (2005, unknown): “Male preference for fecund females has been demonstrated in several fish, amphibian and insect species (Andersson 1994), as well as in a few bird species (Monaghan et al. 1996; Jones et al. 2001).”