The aim of this review is to consider the potential benefits that females may gain from mating
more than once in a single reproductive cycle. The relationship between non-genetic and …

Theory suggests that male fitness generally increases steadily with mating rate, while one or
a few matings are sufficient for females to maximize their reproductive success. Contrary to …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The past decade has seen a profound change in the scientific understanding of
reproduction. The traditional view of reproduction as a joint venture undertaken by two …

Most mites are minuscule, barely perceptible to even the sharpest eyes, but size is a poor
guide to importance. When a crop disappears under a blanket of silk or stored food turns into …

One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral
and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, Parker realized that sexual …

The past two decades have seen extensive growth of sexual selection research. Theoretical
and empirical work has clarified many components of pre-and postcopulatory sexual …

An increasing number of studies find females to base their mate choice on several cues.
Why this occurs is debated and many different hypotheses have been proposed. Here I …

This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding
the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual …

Sperm competition was identified in 1970 as a pervasive selective force in post‐copulatory
sexual selection that occurs when the ejaculates of different males compete to fertilise a …