Insects and arachnids display the most impressive diversity of mating and social behavior among all animals. This book investigates sexual competition in these groups, and the variety of ways in which males and females pursue, persuade, manipulate, control and help one another, enabling us to gain a better understanding of how conflicts and confluences of interest evolve together. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of mating systems in particular insect and arachnid groups, discusses intrinsic and extrinsic factors responsible for observed mating strategies, and suggests fruitful avenues for further research. The book culminates in a synthesis, reviewing the data in terms of the theory of sexual conflict. This broad-based book will be of immense value to students and researchers interested in reproductive strategies, behavioral ecology, entomology and arachnology.
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Insects and arachnids display the most impressive diversity of mating behaviour in the animal kingdom. In this broad-based book, sexual competition in insects and arachnids are investigated, teasing out the variety of ways in which males and females pursue, persuade, manipulate, control and help one another. It provides a comprehensive account of the theory of sexual conflict for students and researchers interested in mating behaviour and its evolution, behavioural ecology, entomology and arachnology.
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The male-female interaction is an asymmetrical, usually obligate mutualism in which there are conflicts of interest whenever multiple potential partners that vary in quality are available for either sex. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
male seminal products, courtship meal, spermathecal tube, postcopulatory choice, water strider mating systems, postcopulatory female choice, precopulatory struggle, spermatophore consumption, courtship stridulation, genitalic evolution, asymmetric tracking hypothesis, postcopulatory guarding, odonate mating systems, complete sperm transfer, eve stalks, female choice hypothesis, large spermatophylax, aerial aggregations, cryptic female choice, sperm ampulla, female water striders, male mating frequency, female mating decisions, genitalic complexity, spermatophylax size Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Harvard University Press, Trends Ecol, Oxford University Press, John Wiley, Maynard Smith, North American, Westview Press, Insect Physiol, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Siva Jothy, Insect Behav, Diverse Group of Insects, New World, Cornell University Press, Evolutionary Approach, New Zealand, South Africa, Testing the Alternatives, Insect Behan, Entomol Soc, Insect Behar, New Mexico New!
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The male-female interaction is an asymmetrical, usually obligate mutualism in which there are conflicts of interest whenever multiple potential partners that vary in quality are available for either sex. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
male seminal products, courtship meal, spermathecal tube, postcopulatory choice, water strider mating systems, postcopulatory female choice, precopulatory struggle, spermatophore consumption, courtship stridulation, genitalic evolution, asymmetric tracking hypothesis, postcopulatory guarding, odonate mating systems, complete sperm transfer, eve stalks, female choice hypothesis, large spermatophylax, aerial aggregations, cryptic female choice, sperm ampulla, female water striders, male mating frequency, female mating decisions, genitalic complexity, spermatophylax size Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Harvard University Press, Trends Ecol, Oxford University Press, John Wiley, Maynard Smith, North American, Westview Press, Insect Physiol, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Siva Jothy, Insect Behav, Diverse Group of Insects, New World, Cornell University Press, Evolutionary Approach, New Zealand, South Africa, Testing the Alternatives, Insect Behan, Entomol Soc, Insect Behar, New Mexico New!
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- Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behaviour: An Anthropological Perspective by Napoleon A. Chagnon in Front Matter, page 144, and page 374
- Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Insects by M.S. Blum in Front Matter, page 162, and page 238
- Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates: Oogenesis, Oviposition and Oosorption by K. G. Adiyodi on page 54, and page 143
- Falconer Quantitative 2e by Falconer on page 237, and page 337
- Biology of Chrysomelidae (Series Entomologica) by P. Jolivet on page 183
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- Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects. by Leigh W. Simmons on 6 pages
- Signalers and Receivers: Mechanisms and Evolution of Arthropod Communication by Michael D. Greenfield on 5 pages
- Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 29 by Peter Evans on page 263, and page 278
- Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson in Back Matter
- Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson in Back Matter
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