Life history constraints on sexual selection: an investigation using territoriality in butterflies

性选择的生活史限制：蝴蝶领域性的研究。当代对男性竞争行为进化的研究在很大程度上忽视了生活史的影响。然而，竞争行为应该受到生活史的影响，因为战斗的成本（受伤或死亡）是在生活史货币中提取的。在这里，我的目的是测量生殖价值领域的蝴蝶，并隔离这一参数的影响，生理条件和战斗经验后，男性的侵略。我提出了一个创新的实验方法来解开这些共同变化的生活史的影响，承诺令人兴奋的和高度原创的见解竞争行为的演变。

Life history constraints on sexual selection: an investigation using territoriality in butterflies. Contemporary studies into the evolution of male contest behaviour largely ignore the influence of life history. However, contest behaviour should be influenced by life history because the costs of fighting (injury or death) are extracted in a life history currency. Here I aim to measure reproductive value in a territorial butterfly, and to isolate the effects of this parameter, physiological condition and fighting experience upon male aggression. I propose an innovative experimental approach to unraveling the effects of these covarying life history influences which promises exciting and highly original insights into the evolution of contest behaviour.