Genetics of Mate Choice: From Sexual Selection to Sexual Isolation

Divergence in mate choice systems: does evolution play by rules?.- Recombination and the divergence of hybridizing species.- The evolution of hybrid infertility: perpetual coevolution between gender-specific and sexually antagonistic genes.- Modelling the evolution of female choice strategies under inbreeding conditions.- Single gene mutations in Drosophila: what can they tell us about the evolution of sexual behaviour?.- Sexual signaling and speciation, a microevolutionary perspective.- Reproductive isolation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster from Brazzaville (Congo).- Genetics of sexual isolation based on courtship song between two sympatric species: Drosophila ananassae and D. pallidosa.- Evolutionary experiments on mate recognition in the Drosophila serrata species complex.- Herbivorous insects: model systems for the comparative study of speciation ecology.- The inheritance of mating songs in two cryptic, sibling lacewing species (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Chrysoperla).- Divergence and reproductive isolation in the early stages of speciation.- Genetic and behavioral components of the cryptic species boundary between Laupala cerasina and L. kohalensis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae).- Domesticated birds as a model for the genetics of speciation by sexual selection.- Patterns of inheritance of mating signals in interspecific hybrids between sailfin and shortfin mollies (Poeciliidae: Poecilia: Mollienesia).- Variation in female mate choice within guppy populations: population divergence, multiple ornaments and the maintenance of polymorphism.- Sexual isolation and speciation in bacteria.- Mutation and premating isolation.- Female choice in Drosophila: evidence from Hawaii and implications for evolutionary biology.- Acknowledgements for refereeing.- Subject and species index.