Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Sex allocation theory predicts the optimal allocation to male and female reproduction in
sexual organisms. In animals, most work on sex allocation has focused on species with …

A key issue in the study of the behaviour of copulating simultaneous hermaphrodites
concerns the decision about which sexual role to adopt in a mating encounter. If two mates …

Sex allocation is a crucial life-history parameter in all sexual organisms. Over the last
decades a body of evolutionary theory, sex allocation theory, was developed, which has …

Over the last 130 years, research has established that (a) sexual selection exists and is
widespread in the plant and animal kingdoms;(b) it does not necessarily entail sexual …

Sex allocation theory is considered as a touchstone of evolutionary biology, providing some
of the best supported examples for Darwinian adaptation. In particular, Hamilton's local mate …

Sexual selection operates on a sequence of events, from mating to offspring production.
Which stages in this sequence undergo stronger selection, especially the relative …

Theory predicts that variation in body size within a population of simultaneous
hermaphrodites should affect sex allocation, leading to individual differences in mating …

Research on sea slugs production has steadily increased in the last decades as a result of
their use as model organisms for biomedical studies, bioprospecting for new marine drugs …

Background Inferring of parentage in natural populations is important in understanding the
mating systems of a species, which have great effects on its genetic structure and evolution …