Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 387 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511721946
Content:
Insects and arachnids display the most impressive diversity of mating and social behaviour among all animals. This book investigates sexual competition in these groups, and the variety of ways in which males and females pursue, persuade, manipulate, control and help one another, enabling us to gain a better understanding of how conflicts and confluences of interest evolve together. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of mating systems in particular insect and arachnid groups, discusses intrinsic and extrinsic factors responsible for observed mating strategies, and suggests fruitful avenues for further research. The book culminates in a synthesis, reviewing the date in terms of the theory of sexual conflict. This broad-based book will be of immense value to students and researchers interested in reproductive strategies, behavioural ecology, entomology and arachnology
Content:
Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating / Richard D. Alexander, David C. Marshall and John R. Cooley -- Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids / William G. Eberhard -- Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns / Ola M. Fincke, Jonathan K. Waage and Walter D. Koenig -- Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny : lessons from territorial grasshoppers / Michael D. Greenfield -- Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera : Gryllidae) / Marlene Zuk and Leigh W. Simmons -- The evolution of edible "sperm sacs" and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera : Ensifera) / Darryl T. Gwynne -- The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera : mating variations and sexual conflicts / Jae C. Choe -- The evolution of water strider mating systems : causes and consequences of sexual conflicts / Göran Arnqvist -- Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae) / Janis L. Dickinson -- Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution / James E. Lloyd -- Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola : sexuality in neuropterid insects / Charles S. Henry -- Mating systems of parasitoid wasps / H.C.J. Godfray and J.M. Cook -- Fig-associated wasps : pollinators and parasites, sex-ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences / Edward Allen Herre [and others] -- Evolution of mate-signaling in moths : phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis / P. Larry Phelan -- Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies / Ronald L. Rutowski -- Lek behavior of insects / Todd E. Shelly and Timothy S. Whittier -- Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects / John M. Sivinski and Erik Petersson -- Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies / Gerald S. Wilkinson and Gary N. Dodson -- Sex via the substrate : mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions / David W. Zeh and Jeanne A. Zeh -- Jumping spider mating strategies : sex among cannibals in and out of webs / Robert R. Jackson and Simon D. Pollard -- Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems / William D. Brown, Bernard J. Crespi and Jae C. Choe
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521580298
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521589765
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521580298
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511721946
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