Edible and seminal gifts that male arthropods transfer to their mates range from important
material donations to items that provide little direct benefit. Recent reviews and research …

This study presents a new nature-inspired optimization algorithm, namely the Mantis Search
Algorithm (MSA), inspired by the unique hunting behavior and sexual cannibalism of praying …

Sexual conflict has been suggested to be important in the evolution of reproductive traits,
with much recent theoretical and empirical evidence emphasizing its role in generating …

Body condition indices, measures of body 'plumpness' or mass relative to frame size, are
often used as a proxy for lipid reserves or fitness‐related traits of animals and assumed to be …

Sexual selection research has been dominated by the notion that mate choice selects for the
most vigorous displays that best reflect the quality of the courter. However, courtship …

Males often exercise mate choice when mating frequency is constrained, costs of choice are
low and variation in female quality and/or expected paternity can be reliably detected …

Sexual conflict can generate coercive traits in males that enhance mating success at the
expense of female fitness. Pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism—where females consume …

Male mate choice is predicted to evolve as male investment in mating increases. Thus, taxa
in which males pay a high cost for mating offer researchers an ideal system to test traditional …

Prey quality has previously been shown to affect the growth and reproduction of predatory
arthropods, however relatively little is known about the specific nutrients responsible for …

We studied mate attraction by females of the praying mantid, Tenodera aridifolia sinensis,
testing honest signaling of mate availability versus deceptive signaling to attract males for …