It has been a tough year! But after making the rounds of the evolutionary journals, the paper has found a home at Ecology and Evolution! The most impressive aspect was the fact that it took 2 days to accept–nice!

Something to be said about using already submitted reviews, while simultaneously questioning what other journals are doing with the same information…

Kasumovic, M.M., M. D. Hall, and R. Brooks. 2012. The juvenile social environment introduces variation in the preference and expression of sexually selected traits. Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.230. (pdf)