Table of Contents
List of Contributors xiii Preface xv
About the Companion Website xix
Part I INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL CONCEPTS 1
1 Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection: Female Choice in a Complex World 3 Michael J. Wade
2 GEIs when Information Transfer is Uncertain or Incomplete 19 Thomas Getty
3 Local Adaptation and the Evolution of Female Choice 41 Luke Holman and Hanna Kokko
4 Genotype-by-Environment Interactions when the Social Environment Contains Genes 63 Jason B. Wolf, Nick J. Royle, and John Hunt
Part II PRACTICAL ISSUES FOR MEASURING GEIs 99
5 Quantifying Genotype-by-Environment Interactions in Laboratory Systems 101 Derek A. Roff and Alastair J. Wilson
6 Influence of the Environment on the Genetic Architecture of Traits Involved in Sexual Selection within Wild Populations 137 Matthew R. Robinson and Anna Qvarnström
7 From Genotype × Environment to Transcriptome × Environment: Identifying and Understanding Environmental Influences in the Gene Expression Underlying Sexually Selected Traits 169 Jennifer C. Perry and Judith E. Mank
Part III EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON GEIs AND SEXUAL SELECTION 189
8 Phenotypic Plasticity and Genotype × Environment Interactions in Animal Communication 191 Michael D. Greenfield
9 The Use of Inbreeding to Assess the Genetic Component of Condition Underlying GEIs in Sexual Traits 213 Lawrence Bellamy, Kevin Fowler, and Andrew Pomiankowski
10 Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Reliable Signaling of Male Quality in Bank Voles 241 Suzanne C. Mills, Mikael Mokkonen, Esa Koskela, and Tapio Mappes
11 Sexual Selection and Genotype-by-Environment Interactions in Drosophila Cuticular Hydrocarbons 265 Fiona C. Ingleby, David J. Hosken, and John Hunt
12 Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection in Guppies 282 Gita R. Kolluru
13 Signal Reliability, Sex-Specific Genotype-by-Environment Interactions in Cuticular Hydrocarbon Expression, and the Maintenance of Polyandry through Chemosensory Self-Referencing in Decorated Crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus 312 Scott K. Sakaluk, Carie Weddle, and John Hunt
Conclusions and Final Thoughts 331
Index 335