Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow
This informative book details the important effects sexual selection has on barn swallow mating behavior, mating competition, parental care, host-parasite interactions, and migration strategies. The first two chapters present a concise, insightful review of the two main components of sexual selection theory--male-male competition and female choice. Citing evidence from the author's long-term field work on the monogamous barn swallow, subsequent chapters investigate the advantages held by...
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This informative book details the important effects sexual selection has on barn swallow mating behavior, mating competition, parental care, host-parasite interactions, and migration strategies. The first two chapters present a concise, insightful review of the two main components of sexual selection theory—male-male competition and female choice. Citing evidence from the author's long-term field work on the monogamous barn swallow, subsequent chapters investigate the advantages held by males with colorful plumage and by females who are choosy when selecting a mating partner. In his exploration of the roles of behavior, ecology, morphology, genetics, and evolution, Møller provides an invaluable synthesis of barn swallow mating behavior research. Students and researchers of ecology, animal behavior, ornithology, and evolutionary biology will welcome this book.
1Introduction12Models of sexual selection and monogamy183The study organism614Male mating advantages885Benefits of mate choice1146Determinants of tail ornament size1477Advantages of early arrival1778Options for unmated males1939Parasites and sexual selection20510Paternal care and male ornamentation23611Sperm competition and sexual selection25112Sexual size dimorphism and female ornaments28113Geographic variation in ornament size29814Synthesis319References335Author Index356Subject Index360
