Demonstrating sexual selection by cryptic female choice on male genitalia: what is enough?

WG Eberhard, GUC Lehmann - Evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… speciation, sperm competition, and male-female conflicts of … of the CFC hypothesis by
reviewing data from two groups in … male is unable to force mating and the female cooperation is

Sexual selection and its evolutionary consequences in female animals

RM Hare, LW Simmons - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
sperm and cryptic male allocation. Our review makes clear that … This review will touch on
cases of male mate preferences … testing the hypothesis of egg competition, many prior studies …

Why do females of a lekking species mate with multiple males?

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 …

Revealing mechanisms of mating plug function under sexual selection

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 competition among females: testing the distinction between natural and sexual selection in an insect

V Pärssinen, LW Simmons… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Cryptic female choice within individual males–A neglected component of the postmating sexual selection?

J Kekäläinen - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… In many species, sexual selection continues after the mating in the form of sperm competition
(intrasexual selection… Both of these sexual selection episodes require that female mate with …

Costs and benefits of multiple mating in a species with first‐male sperm precedence

LR Rodrigues, ART Figueiredo… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Here, we validated this hypothesis by showing that males produced fewer … multiple mating
is costly for females but that matings with mated females are potentially beneficial for males. …

The definition of sexual selection

DM Shuker, C Kvarnemo - Behavioral Ecology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… highlight competition for mates and gametes as two major classes of sexual selection fitness
… way, female ability to store sperm may also be sexually selected if good storage allows the …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring pre-and post-copulatory sexual selection and their interaction in socially monogamous species with extra-pair paternity

ERA Cramer - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
… By varying the degree of correlation between the male and sperm traits, I … Corroborating this
hypothesis, males invest less in post-… sexual selection, across a range of mating systems [9]. …

How female-female competition affects male-male competition: insights into postcopulatory sexual selection from socially polyandrous species

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 …