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The function of female resistance behavior: Intromission by male coercion vs. female cooperation in sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2002)
Correlated evolution of sexual dimorphism and male dimorphism in a clade of neotropical harvestmen
(Oxford, 2014-04)
Secondary sexual traits increase male fitness, but may be maladaptive in females, generating intralocus sexual conflict that is ameliorated through sexual dimorphism. Sexual selection on males may also lead some males to ...
Do female Nicrophorus vespilloides reduce direct costs by choosing males that mate less frequently?
(Royal Soc, 2016)
Sexual conflict occurs when selection to maximize fitness in one sex does so at the expense of the other sex. In the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, repeated mating provides assurance of paternity at a direct cost ...
Males choose to keep their heads: preference for lower risk females in a praying mantid
(Elsevier Science, 2016-06)
Male reproductive success is obviously mate limited, which implies that males should rarely be choosy. One extreme case of a reproductive (or mating) cost is sexual cannibalism. Recent research has proposed that male mantids ...
Mating promiscuity and reproductive tactics in female black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta Caraya) inhabiting an island on the Paraná river, Argentina
(Wiley-liss, Div John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010-08)
In several primate species, females mate promiscuously and several adult males peacefully co-reside in the same social group. We investigated female mating behavior in two neighboring multimale–multifemale groups of Alouatta ...
Expulsion and consumption of male ejaculates by promiscous female euxesta eluta and euxesta mazorca (Diptera: Ulidiidae)
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-06)
While expulsion of male ejaculates by the females after copulation has been reported for various animal groups, expulsion followed by consumption of the expelled ejaculate is a rare behaviour outside spermatophylax-producing ...
Worthless and nutritive nuptial 1 gifts: mating duration, sperm stored and potential female decisions in spiders
(Public Library Of Science, 2015-06)
In nuptial gift-giving species females sometimes select their potential mates based on the presence and size of the gift. But in some species, such as the Neotropical polyandrous spider Paratrechalea ornate male gifts vary ...