More notes on papers

I promised to post notes, so here we are.

Panhuis et al, 2001, Sexual selection and speciation, TREE, pp364-371.

Useful article, although not entirely relevant. Certainly gives some good evidence of how sexual selection can act to speed the evolution of populations and also how this can be in non-adaptive and/or quite variable directions (leading to reproductive isolation and the possibility of speciation).

It also has a very good summary box of examples of sexual selection, the traits that are selected and whether these produce reproductive isolation, example: female Drosophila melanogaster from Zimbabwe prefer males only from Zimbabwe.