Dear All, We are collecting data for a meta-analysis of good genes effects in sexual selection, based on literature AND unpublished results.
We are interested in studies reporting on - broadly understood - genetic correlations between male attractiveness-related traits and fitness components. Therefore, data on relationships between sire ornaments (or other measures of attractiveness) and offspring fitness components (viability, life history, physiological, behavioral - any type of traits really, as long as there is evidence, or at least a sound reason to believe, that they are related to fitness); data on heritability of ornaments (or other attractiveness measures), or data on genetic correlations calculated from full sib - half sib experiments or animal model - are of interest for us. Should you have access to such data in any form - e.g. unpublished manuscript / thesis / unanalysed raw data file etc., but also published papers (we are conducting a Web of Science search but may not be able to retrieve each and every one relevant paper this way) - we would be most grateful if you could share it with us. We will obviously cite your contribution in the resulting publication. We need the following information for our work: - a measure and direction of the relationship in question (results of Pearson's correlation, regression, t test, ANOVA, chi square test, or any other test as long as the exact P value is given - or raw data), - how were the attractiveness-related and fitness-related traits measured, - number of sires and offspring included, - breeding scheme (observational or experimental), - whether paternity was certain (experimentally controlled or genetically confirmed) or if not, what is the frequency of extra-pairyoung in the population on which the study was conducted (if known), - environmental conditions sires were raised in (natural/seminatural, benign laboratory or harsh laboratory conditions) - environmental conditions offspring were raised in (as above) - any other important details on study design If you know other researchers who may have access to such data, please forward this e-mail to them. Thank you very much in advance for any help you can provide. Zofia Prokop, Lukasz Michalczyk, Szymon Drobniak, Magdalena Herdegen & Jacek Radwan -- Zofia Maria Prokop PhD student Molecular and Behavioral Ecology Group Jagiellonian University Gronostajowa 7 30-387 Krakow, Poland
