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Why do winners keep winning?

by Whiting | Jul 20, 2016 | Animal signals, Behaviour, Publications, Sexual selection, Water skink project

by Fonti Kar Animals often find themselves in direct competition with other individuals for resources and mates. Because fighting is costly, many species honestly signal their fighting ability to avoid injury (non-escalated fights). For example, in flat lizards...

Athletic lizards: Sex, hormones, and physical performance

by Noble | Jun 21, 2014 | Behaviour, Publications, Sexual selection, Water skink project

By Dan Noble When it comes to animal athletics lizards have been model systems for exploring the relationships between ecology and physical performance. Our two recent papers, one in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society and the second in Behavioral...

Brotherly love reduces conflict in fruit flies

by Whiting | Feb 14, 2014 | Science news, Sexual selection, Social behaviour, Uncategorized

Lizard Lab alumnus Pau Carazo is best known for his work on communication in lizards. Along the way he has dabbled with beetles and now, fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). In a recent paper in Nature, Pau and his colleagues at Oxford designed a novel series of...

A lizard’s guide to mating: Alternative reproductive tactics give males an edge in finding the ladies

by Whiting | Nov 4, 2013 | Behaviour, Lab news, Science news, Sexual selection, Water skink project

By Dan Noble Sexual selection – the differential reproductive success of individuals – is a powerful evolutionary force. Sexual selection can lead to evolution of both beautiful and bizarre phenotypes, such as peacock trains, deer antlers and the complex displays and...

Better red than dead? Fiery frills win more contests in the Australian Frillneck Lizard

by Whiting | May 26, 2013 | Animal signals, Communication, Lab news, Publications, Sexual selection

Dave Hamilton, Martin Whiting and Sarah Pryke Recently, the Pryke Lab published its first paper on a reptile—the iconic Frillneck Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii). Both males and females have frills and until now, the consensus has always been that frills play a role in...

Sex in the lizard world: Promiscuous females and protective males

by Whiting | Jan 26, 2013 | Lab news, Publications, Science news, Sexual selection, Water skink project

The sex life of Australian water skinks (Eulamprus) has received considerable attention in the past few decades. The Keogh Lab documented alternate reproductive tactics in E. heatwolei and Jess Stapley’s PhD focused in part, on fitness consequences of ARTs. More...
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