Table 1. Review of studies that estimate the heritability of female preference.

Species	Order	Na	Cue typeb	Genetic modelc	Mean	s.d. or s.e.d	ne	Study
No choice trials
Drosophila melanogaster	Diptera	1	Male	Isofemale	0.80	0.16	4	Narraway et al. (2010)
Sepsis cynipsea	Diptera	1	Male	Half-sib	0.37		1	Muhlhauser and Blanckenhorn (2004)
Pectinophora gossypiella	Lepidoptera	1	Synthetic	Selection	0.16	0.02	1	Collins and Carde (1990)f
Choice trials
Taeniopygia guttata	Passeriformes	2	Male	Full-sib	0.10	0.14	1	Schielzeth et al. (2010)
Gasterosteus aculeatus	Gasterosteiformes	2	Male	Full-sib	0.43	0.37	1	Bakker (1993)
Utetheisa ornatrix	Lepidoptera	2	Male	OP	0.51	0.11	1	Iyengar et al. (2002)
Drosophila bunnanda	Diptera	2	Male	Half-sib	nag	na	na	McGuigan et al. (2008)
Achroia grisella	Lepidoptera	2	Synthetic	Half-sib	0.21	0.13	1	Jang and Greenfield (2000)
Taeniopygia guttata	Passeriformes	8	Male	Animal	0.03	0.05	3	Forstmeier et al. (2004)
Poecilia reticulata	Cyprinodontiformes	12	Male	Half-sib	0.05	0.08	14	Brooks and Endler (2001)
Poecilia reticulata	Cyprinodontiformes	5	Male	Selection	0.00	0.09	2	Hall et al. (2004)
Nauphoeta cinerea	Blattodea	2	Male	Threshold	1.02	0.28	1	Moore (1990)
Drosophila simulans	Diptera	2	Male	Threshold	0.26	0.11	1	Sharma et al. (2010)
Cadra cautella	Lepidoptera	2	Synthetic	Threshold	−0.03	0.06	1	Allison et al. (2008)
Teleogryllus oceanicus	Orthoptera	2	Synthetic	Threshold	0.00	0.00	3	Simmons (2004)
Pectinophora gossypiella	Lepidoptera	Multiple	Synthetic	OP	0.26	0.25	6	Collins and Carde (1989)
Achroia grisella	Lepidoptera	Multiple	Synthetic	Half-sib	0.23	0.11	8	Zhou et al. (2011)
Achroia grisella	Lepidoptera	Multiple	Synthetic	Full-sib	0.31	0.13	2	Rodriguez and Greenfield (2003)f
Gryllus texensis	Orthoptera	Multiple	Synthetic	OP	0.40	0.11	2	Gray and Cade (1999)
Free-ranging population
Ficedula albicollis	Passeriformes	Unknown	NA	Animal	0.05	0.01	2	Husby et al. (2012)f
Ficedula albicollis	Passeriformes	Unknown	NA	Animal	0.03		1	Qvarnström et al. (2006)f

Except where noted (footnote f), authors define the trait as ‘preference'.

^aN: Number of males presented to a female. ‘Multiple' refers to the set of synthetic cues used to estimate female preference.

^bRefers to whether female is presented with one or more males or with a synthetic cue (pheromone, song).

^cAnimal=animal model. OP=offspring on parent regression.

^dStandard error presented when there was only one estimate, otherwise standard deviation of estimates.

^eNumber of estimates.

^fCollins and Carde (1989) define the response as ‘increased responsiveness', while Rodriguez and Greenfield (2003), Qvarnström et al. (2006) and Husby et al (2012) use the term ‘choice'.

^gGenetic variance but not heritability of preference estimated.