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This truly is a shame. Still, he is not up for re-election, so I am still voting green. Good that this man will no loger run the ministry, no matter what though. But also don't think there is gonna be any improvement after the election given the parties likely in power.

Interested in interactions between females & males on the path to fertilization? We reviewed the evidence for these complex female-male interactions. Thanks to my amazing co-authors for taking me along on this exciting journey (my first review paper)! Out now #OpenAccess

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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

This suggests that sexual selection is as relevant for the evolution of SSD in species with reverse SSD (i.e. female-biased) as in male-biased species. Still, this is a makroevolutionary pattern and selection forces will vary a lot between individual species.

Thanks for your interest! That is a good question, which indeed we tried to adress in the paper (tough it was not our main focus). We found that across all species, the sex-bias in SSD did not predict the strength of the relationship with sexual selection (Figure S3A).

We found pre-copulatory but not post-copulatory sexual selection correlated with male-biased SSD. Suggesting that components of sexual selection (but not only sexual selection) drive SSD.

📜 Did you ever wonder why females and males are of different size in many species? We tested if sexual selection could drive the evolution of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) synthesizing the results of 77 comparative studies. #OpenAccess in Ecology Letters:
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Intro: I am an evolutionary biologist interested in sexual selection & the interaction of evolution & ecology. In my research I combine experiments with meta-analysis. I worked on a variety of different species from flatworms to mice & now fish. For more see: www.researchgate.net/profile/Lenn...