Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects / / Leigh W. Simmons.
One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, Parker realized that sexual selection continues after mating through sperm competition. Because females often mate with multiple males before producing...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Behavior and Ecology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 1 halftone, 80 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Dedication and Acknowledgments
- 1. Sexual Selection and Sperm Competition
- 2. Sperm Utilization: Concepts, Patterns, and Processes
- 3. Avoidance of Sperm Competition I: Morphological Adaptations
- 4. Avoidance of Sperm Competition II: Physiological Adaptations
- 5. Avoidance of Sperm Competition III: Behavioral Adaptations
- 6. Copula Duration
- 7. Sperm in Competition I : Strategic Ejaculation
- 8. Sperm in Competition II : Sperm Morphology
- 9. Ejaculate Manipulation: Mechanisms of Female Choice
- 10. Social Insects
- 11. Broader Significance
- References
- Taxonomic Index
- Subject Index