Thanks to everyone who sent me responses to my request for lists of 
selection experiments that were unsuccessful (i.e. no response).  I 
am posting the final list here rather than responding to everyone 
individually, as there were a lot of responses.  I believe the list 
below is accurate, but of course I'm responsible for any errors.  And 
if I've missed anything, please email me.  There is also one more, 
not listed, that I'm submitting for publication.

Thanks,
Jerry

            Experiments in which selection on at least one trait 
failed to achieve a response:

Baer, C. F., and J. Travis. 2000. Direct and correlated responses to 
artificial selection on acute thermal stress tolerance in a 
livebearing fish. Evolution 54:238-244.

Bradshaw, A. D. 1991. Genostasis and the limits to evolution. Phil. 
Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. 333:289-305.

Breuker CJ, Brakefield PM, 2003. Lack of response to selection for 
lower fluctuating asymmetry of mutant eyespots in the butterfly 
Bicyclus anynana. Heredity. 91(1):17-27.

Collins, R. L. 1969. On inheritance of handedness 2. Selection for 
Sinistrality in Mice. Journal of Heredity 60:117-&.

Collins, S., and G. Bell. 2004. Phenotypic consequences of 1,000 
generations of selection at elevated CO2 in a green alga. Nature 
431:566-569.

Conner, J. K., and A. A. Agrawal. 2005. Mechanisms of constraints: 
the contributions of selection and genetic variance to the 
maintenance of cotyledon number in wild radish. Journal of 
Evolutionary Biology 18:238-242.

Coyne, J. A. 1987. Lack of response to selection for directional 
asymmetry in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Heredity 78: 119.

Hall, M., A. K. Lindholm, and R. Brooks. 2004. Direct selection on 
male attractiveness and female preference fails to produce a 
response. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 4:-.

Hoffmann, A. A., R. J. Hallas, J. A. Dean, and M. Schiffer. 2003. Low 
potential for climatic stress adaptation in a rainforest Drosophila 
species. Science 301:100-102.

Hulata G., G.W. Wohlfarth, and A. Halevy, 1986. Mass selection for 
growth rate in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Aquaculture, 
57:1-4.

Maughan, H., and W. L. Nicholson. 2004. Stochastic processes 
influence stationary-phase decisions in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of 
Bacteriology 186:2212-2214.

Maynard Smith, J., and K. C. Sondhi. 1960. The genetics of a pattern. 
Genetics 45:1039-1050.

Purnell, D. J., and J. N. Thompson. 1973. Selection for asymmetrical 
bias in a behavioral character of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 
31:401-405.

Tuinstra, E. J., G. Dejong, and W. Scharloo. 1990. Lack of response 
to family selection for directional asymmetry in Drosophila 
melanogaster : Left and right are not distinguished in development. 
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological 
Sciences 241:146-152.

Zijlstra, W.G., Kesbeke, F., Zwaan, B.J., and Brakefield, P.M. (2002).
Protandry in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Evol. Ecol. Res., 4:
1229-40

Zijlstra, W. G., Steigenga, M.J., Brakefield, P.M., and Zwaan B.J.
(2003). Simultaneous selection on two-components of life-history in 
the butterfly Bicyclus anynana. Evolution, 57: 1852-1862

Jerry Coyne <j-coyne@uchicago.edu>