… sperm and cryptic male allocation. Our review makes clear that … This review will touch on cases of malemate preferences … testing the hypothesis of egg competition, many prior studies …
B Kempenaers - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… females receive no resources from the male other than sperm and are free to choose the ‘best’ mate to … , which I refer to as the ‘male endurance hypothesis’. In a lekking species where …
P Stockley, C Franco, AJ Claydon… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… Since it has been hypothesized that larger plugs are beneficial under sperm competition (8, 18), we also explored the consequences of natural variation in plug size. However, when …
… mating treatments (‘sperm only’ and ‘sperm + gift’), we also investigated how long the … that it led to a longer refractory period, could be seen to support this hypothesis. However, there …
J Kekäläinen - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… In many species, sexualselection continues after the mating in the form of sperm competition (intrasexual selection… Both of these sexualselection episodes require that femalemate with …
… Here, we validated this hypothesis by showing that males produced fewer … multiplemating is costly for females but that matings with mated femalesare potentially beneficial for males. …
DM Shuker, C Kvarnemo - Behavioral Ecology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… highlight competition for mates and gametes as two major classes of sexualselection fitness … way, female ability to store sperm may also be sexuallyselected if good storage allows the …
… By varying the degree of correlation between the male and sperm traits, I … Corroborating this hypothesis, males invest less in post-… sexualselection, across a range of mating systems [9]. …
SE Lipshutz, SJ Torneo… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Our results indicate that stronger female-female competition for mating opportunities may also … (Lipshutz and Rosvall 2020b), so we hypothesized that sperm traits may also change …