Differential allocation: tests, mechanisms and implications.

By Ben C. Sheldon. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Evidence of unconstrained directional selection for male tallness (2001, background): “Moller and Thornhill 1998; Sheldon 2000 ).”
Experimental evidence that egg color indicates female condition at laying in a songbird (2006, methodology): “According to the differential allocation hypothesis (Burley 1986; Sheldon 2000 ), males would contribute differentially more to parental care of offspring of females with exaggerated signals (eggs with a higher blue-green chroma), and thus of high quality, and females would benefit from signaling q”
Chapter 7 Hormones in Avian Eggs: Physiology, Ecology and Behavior (2008, background): “Thus, if male costly ornamentation indicates that offspring will be of higher phenotypic or genetic quality, it is expected that females should increase their investment in the offspring fathered by these males (Burley, 1988; Sheldon, 2000).”
Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios (2008, background): “This could, in turn, select for females that care more for the offspring of more successful males and less for those of less successful males (‘differential allocation’, Sheldon, 2000).”
Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function (2002, background): “As pointed out by Sheldon (2000), however, differential investment by females, based on offspring paternity, would be adaptive only if there were differences in paternal genetic contributions to offspring fitness.”
Mate guarding, male attractiveness, and paternity under social monogamy (2005, background): “Females or males may follow adaptive rules of differential allocation where their reproductive effort and mating effort depend on the attractiveness, or quality, of their mate and themselves (reviewed in Magrath and Komdeur, 2003; Sheldon, 2000).”
The description of mate choice (2015, background): “For example, an individual could bias the allocation of sperm (e.g., Engqvist and Sauer 2002) or provide greater parental care (e.g., Sheldon 2000) to specific mates.”
Avian egg colour and sexual selection: does eggshell pigmentation reflect female condition and genetic quality? (2003, background): “Recently, wide-ranging empirical support for differential allocation has been obtained (Sheldon 2000).”
Behavioural processes affecting development: Tinbergen's fourth question comes of age (2003, background): “Similarly, in species that lack male parental care, a positive correlation between attractive traits in fathers and viability traits in their offspring is usually construed as supporting the hypothesis that the attractive male traits are correlated with ‘good genes’ (Sheldon 2000).”
NEST WEIGHT AND FEMALE HEALTH IN THE BLUE TIT (CYANISTES CAERULEUS) (2006, background): “…nest-building activity is assessed by males to gain information regarding female health status or willingness to invest in reproduction, as sexual selection theory predicts (Moreno et al. 1994, Soler et al. 1998a), males should vary their parental eff ort accordingly (Burley 1986, Sheldon 2000).”
The Zebra Finch: the ultimate Australian supermodel (2010, result): “This finding prompted Burley to propose the differential allocation hypothesis, a model that has found support in several taxa (reviewed in Sheldon 2000) and is a very important component of our current understanding of sexual selection.”
Differential allocation and compensation: who deserves the silver spoon? (2010, background): “Evidence from several taxa exists by now (Sheldon 2000; Gowaty et al. 2007), but the strong emphasis on avian studies remains true to date.”