How to choose a mate – or when to be choosy at all?
| Kovalov, V. & Kokko, H. 2022. Selection for male stamina can help explain costly displays with cost-minimizing female choice. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 76: 69. | |
| Sapage, M., Varela, SAM. & Kokko, H. 2021. Social learning by mate-choice copying increases dispersal and reduces local adaptation. Functional Ecology 35: 705-716. | |
| Aubier, T., Kokko, H. & Joron, M. 2019. Coevolution of male and female mate choice can destabilise reproductive isolation. Nature Communications 10: 5122. | |
| haiku pdf | Gordon, S.P., Kokko, H., Rojas, B., Nokelainen, O. & Mappes, J. 2015. Colour polymorphism torn apart by opposing positive frequency-dependent selection, yet maintained in space. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 1555–1564. |
| Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2015. Describing mate choice in a biased world. Behavioral Ecology 26: 320–327. | |
| Lehtonen, J. & Kokko, H. 2015. Why inclusive fitness can make it adaptive to produce less fit extra-pair offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282: 20142716. | |
| haiku pdf | Kokko, H., Booksmythe, I. & Jennions, M.D. 2015. Mate-sampling costs and sexy sons. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 259-266. |
| Kokko, H. 2015. Cuckoldry (human and non-human). In: International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. Wiley-Blackwell. | |
| Holman, L. & Kokko, H. 2014. Local adaptation and the evolution of female choice. Pages 41-62 in: Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Sexual Selection (J. Hunt & D. Hosken, eds.) Wiley-Blackwell. | |
| Kokko, H., Griffith, S.C. & Pryke, S.R. 2014. The hawk-dove game in a sexually reproducing species explains a colourful polymorphism in an endangered bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141794. | |
| Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2014. The relationship between sexual selection and sexual conflict. In: The Genetics and Biology of Sexual Conflict (S. Gavrilets and W.R. Rice, eds.) Cold Spring Harbor Press. | |
| haiku pdf | Jordan, L.A., Kokko, H. & Kasumovic, M. 2014. Reproductive foragers: spider males choose mates by selecting among available competitive environments. American Naturalist 183: 638-649. |
| Jennions, M.D. & Kokko, H. 2014. Sexual selection: mate choice. Pages 647–654 in: The Princeton Guide to Evolution (Losos, J., Baum, D., Futuyma, D.J., Hoekstra, H., Lenski, R., Moore, A., Schluter, D., & Whitlock, M., eds.) Princeton University Press. | |
| link | Jennions, M.D. & Kokko, H. 2014. Mate choice. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology (J. Losos, ed.) Oxford University Press, New York. |
| haiku pdf | Jennions, M.D., Kahn, A.T., Kelly, C.D. & Kokko, H. 2012. Meta-analysis and sexual selection: past studies and future possibilities. Evolutionary Ecology 26: 1119-1151. |
| haiku pdf | Kokko, H. & Heubel, K.U. 2011. Prudent males, group adaptation, and the tragedy of the commons. Oikos 120: 641–656 (an invited Per Brinck Oikos Award article). |
| haiku pdf | Mautz, B., Detto, T., Wong, B.B.M., Kokko, H., Jennions, M.D. & Backwell, P.R.Y. 2011. Male fiddler crabs defend multiple burrows to attract additional females. Behavioral Ecology 22: 261–267. |
| Barry, K.L. & Kokko, H. 2010. Male mate choice: why sequential choice can make its evolution difficult. Animal Behaviour 80: 163-169. | |
| Jamieson, I.G., Taylor, S.S., Hegg, L., Kokko, H. & Armstrong, D.P. 2009. Why some species of birds do not avoid inbreeding: insights from New Zealand robins and saddlebacks. Behavioral Ecology 20: 575-584. | |
| Cockburn, A., Dalziell, A.H., Blackmore, C.J., Double, M.C., Kokko, H., Osmond, H.L., Beck, N.R., Head, M.L. & Wells, K. 2009. Superb fairy-wrens aggregate into hidden leks to solicit extra-group fertilizations before dawn. Behavioral Ecology 20: 501-510. | |
| Heubel, K.U., Rankin, D.J. & Kokko, H. 2009. How to go extinct by mating too much: Population consequences of male mate choice and efficiency in a sexual-asexual species complex. Oikos 118: 513-520. | |
| Fromhage, L., Kokko, H. & Reid, J.M. 2009. Evolution of mate choice for genome-wide heterozygosity. Evolution 63: 684-694. | |
| Eliassen, S. & Kokko, H. 2008. Current analyses do not resolve whether extra-pair paternity is male or female driven. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1795-1804. | |
| Kokko, H. 2008. Males, females and the value of toy models: a commentary on Bookstein et al. (2008). Biology Letters 4: 349-350. | |
| Kokko, H. 2008. Human parental age difference and offspring count: and we still don’t know what men or women want. Biology Letters 4: 259-260. | |
| Kokko, H. & Heubel, K. 2008. Condition-dependence, genotype-by-environment interactions, and the lek paradox. Genetica 132: 209-216. | |
| Kokko, H., Jennions, M.D. & Houde, A. 2007. Evolution of frequency-dependent mate choice: keeping up with fashion trends. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274: 1317-1324. | |
| Jeschke, J.M., Wanless, S., Harris, M.P. & Kokko, H. 2007. How partnerships end in guillemots Uria aalge: chance events, adaptive change, or forced divorce? Behavioral Ecology 18: 460-466. | |
| Lehmann, L., Keller, L.F. & Kokko, H. 2007. Mate choice evolution, dominance effects and the maintenance of genetic variation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 244: 282-295. | |
| Kokko, H., Jennions, M.D. & Brooks, R. 2006. Unifying and testing models of sexual selection. Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 37: 43-66. | |
| Kokko, H. & Ots, I. 2006. When not to avoid inbreeding. Evolution 60: 467-475. | |
| Chenoweth, S.F., Doughty, P. & Kokko, H. 2006. Can non-directional male preferences facilitate honest female ornamentation? Ecology Letters 9: 179-184. | |
| Kokko, H. & Mappes, J. 2005. Sexual selection when fertilization is not guaranteed. Evolution 59: 1876-1885. | |
| Kokko, H. 2005. Treat ’em mean, keep ’em (sometimes) keen: evolution of female preferences for dominant and coercive males. Evolutionary Ecology 19: 123-135. | |
| Härdling, R. & Kokko, H. 2005. The evolution of prudent choice. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 697-715. | |
| Schmeller, D.S., O’Hara, R. & Kokko, H. 2005. Male adaptive stupidity: Male mating pattern in hybridogenetic frogs. Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 1039-1050. | |
| Morrell, L.J. & Kokko, H. 2004. Can too strong female choice deteriorate male ornamentation? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: 1597-1604. | |
| Kokko, H., Brooks, R., Jennions, M. & Morley, J. 2003. The evolution of mate choice and mating biases. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270: 653-664. | |
| McNamara, J.M., Houston, A.I., Marques dos Santos, M., Kokko, H. & Brooks, R. 2003. Quantifying male attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270: 1925-1932. | |
| Kokko, H., Brooks, R., McNamara, J.M. & Houston, A.I. 2002. The sexual selection continuum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 1331-1340. | |
| Kokko, H., Ranta, E., Ruxton, G.D. & Lundberg, P. 2002. Sexually transmitted disease and the evolution of mating systems. Evolution 56: 1091-1100. | |
| Kokko, H. & Johnstone, R. A. 2002. Why is mutual mate choice not the norm? Operational sex ratios, sex roles, and the evolution of sexually dimorphic and monomorphic signalling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 357: 319-330. | |
| Amos, W., Worthington Wilmer, J. & Kokko, H. 2001. Do female grey seals select genetically diverse mates? Animal Behaviour 62: 157-164. | |
| Kokko, H. & Monaghan, P. 2001. Predicting the direction of sexual selection. Ecology Letters 4: 159-165. | |
| Kokko, H. 2001. Fisherian and ‘good genes’ benefits of mate choice: how (not) to distinguish between them. Ecology Letters 4: 159-165. | |
| Kokko, H., Rintamäki, P. T., Alatalo, R. V., Höglund, J., Karvonen, E. & Lundberg, A. 1999. Female choice selects for lifetime lekking performance in black grouse males. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266: 2109-2115. | |
| Kokko, H. 1999. Cuckoldry and the stability of biparental care. Ecology Letters 2: 247-255. | |
| Kokko, H. 1998. Should advertising parental care be honest? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265: 1871-1878. | |
| Kokko, H. 1998. Good genes, old age and life history trade-offs. Evolutionary Ecology 12: 739-750. | |
| Kokko, H., Lindström, J., Alatalo, R. V. & Rintamäki, P. T. 1998. Queuing for territory positions in the lekking black grouse (Tetrao tetrix). Behavioral Ecology 9: 376-383. | |
| Kokko, H., Sutherland, W. J., Lindström, J., Reynolds, J. D. & Mackenzie, A. 1998. Individual mating success, lek stability, and the neglected limitations of statistical power. Animal Behaviour 56: 755-762. | |
| Kokko, H. 1997. Evolutionarily stable strategies of age-dependent sexual advertisement. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41: 99-107. | |
| Kokko, H. 1997. The lekking game: can female choice explain aggregated male displays? Journal of Theoretical Biology 187: 57-64. | |
| Kokko, H. & Lindström, J. 1997. Measuring the mating skew. American Naturalist 149: 794-799. | |
| Kokko, H. & Lindström, J. 1996. Kin selection and the evolution of leks: whose success do young males maximize? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263: 919-923. | |
| Kokko, H. & Lindström, J. 1996. Evolution of female preference for old mates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263: 1533-1538. |