Male Mating Success: Preference or Prowess? Investigating Sexual Selection in the Laboratory Using Drosophila Melanogaster

Sexual selection is the primary force affecting the evolution of the elaborate sexual displays common in animals, yet sexual selection experiments are largely absent from introductory biology laboratories. Here we describe the rationale, methodology, and results of several experiments using "Drosophila melanogaster" to demonstrate sexual selection in introductory biology laboratories.