Part I. Reproductive Biology and Life History
1 Gonads, genitals, and reproductive biology
Hartmut Greven
2 Matrotrophy
Edie Marsh-Matthews
3 Variation and evolution of reproductive strategies
Marcelo N. Pires, Amanda Banet, Bart J.A. Pollux, and David N. Reznick
4 Ecological drivers of life-history divergence
Jerald B. Johnson and Justin C. Bagley
5 Evolution of unisexual reproduction
Ingo Schlupp and Rüdiger Riesch
Part II. Evolutionary Ecology
6 Evolutionary and plastic responses to resource availability
Gregory F. Grether and Gita R. Kolluru
7 Sensory ecology
Seth William Coleman
8 Poeciliid parasites
Joanne Cable
9 Community assembly and mode of reproduction: predicting the distribution of livebearing fishes
Joel C. Trexler, Donald L. DeAngelis, and Jiang Jiang
10 Speciation and hybridization
Gil G. Rosenthal and Francisco J. Garcia de León
11 Living in extreme environments
Michael Tobler and Martin Plath
12 Evolutionary conservation biology
Craig A. Stockwell and Sujan M. Henkanaththegedara
Part III. Behavior and Cognition
13 Group living
Jens Krause, Richard James, and Darren P. Croft
14 Innovation and social learning
Mike M. Webster and Kevin N. Laland
15 Cognition
Angelo Bisazza
16 Predation risk and decision making in poeciliid prey
Jennifer L. Kelley and Culum Brown
Part IV. Sexual Selection
17 Precopulatory sexual selection
Oscar Rios-Cardenas and Molly Morris
18 Postcopulatory sexual selection
Jonathan P. Evans and Andrea Pilastro
19 Sexual coercion
Anne E. Magurran
20 Information societies: communication networks and sexual selection
Matt Druen and Lee A. Dugatkin
21 Genital evolution
R. Brian Langerhans
Part V. Genetics
22 Genetic variation in natural populations
Felix Breden and Anna K. Lindholm
23 Genetics of male guppy color patterns
Robert C. Brooks and Erik Postma
24 A primer of sex determination
Manfred Schartl, Delphine Galiana-Arnoux, Christina Schultheis, Astrid Böhne, and Jean-Nicolas Volff
25 Evolutionary genetics and molecular ecology of the major histocompatability complex genes
Mark McMullan and Cock van Oosterhout
26 Oncogenetics
Manfred Schartl and Svenja Meierjohann
Part VI. Conclusions
27 Integrative commentary on Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes
John A. Endler