title: Response to comments on "Bateman in nature: predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection".
abstract: Commenters objected to the way that we counted matings and offspring to calculate Bateman slopes and disagreed with our contention that predation on offspring can decrease the potential for sexual selection. We clarify what may have been misunderstandings to argue that our methods, analyses, and conclusions are correct.
authors: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3051, USA.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Byers
authors: Stacey
authors: S
authors: Dunn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000866:Antelopes / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D052586:Mating Preference, Animal; D011235:Predatory Behavior; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal