Abstract: Previous articleNext article No AccessNotes and CommentsOn the Measurement of Sexual SelectionWalter D. Koenig and Stephen S. AlbanoWalter D. Koenig Search for more articles by this author and Stephen S. Albano Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 127, Number 3Mar., 1986 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/284491 Views: 18Total views on this site Citations: 57Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1986 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Tim Clutton-Brock Reproductive competition and sexual selection, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no.17291729 (Jul 2017): 20160310.https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0310Valentina Botto, Sergio Castellano Attendance, but not performance, predicts good genes in a lek-breeding treefrog, Behavioral Ecology 27, no.44 (Mar 2016): 1141–1148.https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw026A. M. Martin, M. 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