Evolutionarily stable strategies

The Atlantic silverside, Menidia menidia.
Photo: D. Conover

Lecture bibliography

Arak, A. 1988. Callers and satellites in the natterjack toad: evolutionarily stable decision rules. Animal Behaviour 36: 416-432.

Axelrod, R. and W. D. Hamilton. 1981. The evolution of cooperation. Science 211: 1390-1396.

Charnov, E. L. 1982. The theory of sex allocation. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J.

Conover, D. O. and D. A. Van Voorhees. 1990. Evolution of a balanced sex ratio by frequency-dependent selection in a fish. Science 250: 1556-1558.

Emlen, D. J. 1996. Artificial selection on horn length-body size allometry in the horned beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Evolution 50: 1219-1230.

Godfray, H. C. J. and J. H. Werren. 1996. Recent developments in sex ratio studies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 59-63

Grafen, Alan. 1991. Modelling in behavioural ecology. Pp 5-31 in J. R. Krebs & N. B. Davies (eds) Behavioural ecology: an evolutionary approach. 3rd ed. Blackwell Science Inc.

Gross, M. R. 1984. Sunfish, salmon, and the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies and tactics in fishes. Pages 55-75 in G. Potts and R. Wootton (eds.) Fish reproduction: strategies and tactics. Academic Press, London, UK.

Gross, M. R. 1996. Alternative reproductive strategies and tactics: diversity within sexes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 92-98.

Komdeur, J., S. Daan, J. Tinbergen, and C. Mateman. 1997. Extreme adaptive modification in sex ratio of the Seychelles warbler’s eggs. Nature 385: 522-525.

Komdeur, J., M. J. L. Magrath, and S. Krackow. 2002. Pre-ovulation control of hatchling sex ratio in the Seychelles warbler. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 269: 1067-1072.

Maynard Smith, J. 1982. Evolution and the theory of games. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK.

Nowak, M. and K. Sigmund. 1993. A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. Nature 364: 56-58.

Sinervo, B. and K. R. Zamudio. 2001. The evolution of alternative reproductive strategies: fitness differential, heritability, and genetic correlation between the sexes. Journal of Heredity 92: 198-205.

Taborsky, M. and H. J. Brockmann. 2010. Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes. Pp 537-586 in P. M. Kappeler (Ed.) Animal behaviour: evolution and mechanisms. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.