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Female preference for male courtship flashes in Photinus ignitus fireflies

Cratsley, Christopher K.; Lewis, Sara M. - In: Behavioral Ecology 14 (2003) 1, pp. 135-140

characteristics and spermatophore mass in Photinus ignitus fireflies. We determined female preference by scoring female flash response …-collected males. Males were then mated to determine spermatophore mass. Females exhibited greater preference for artificial flashes … of the variation in spermatophore mass for early-season males. These results suggest that female Photinus ignitus may …

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Male attractiveness covaries with fighting ability but not with prior fight outcome in house crickets

Savage, Kate E.; Hunt, John; Jennions, Michael D.; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 196-200

In many species males that tend to win fights against other males are more attractive to females. There are three ways in which male fighting ability and attractiveness may be associated: (1) attractiveness and fighting ability are influenced by the same underlying traits (e.g., body size), (2)...

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Paternity in mallards: effects of sperm quality and female sperm selection for inbreeding avoidance

Denk, Angelika G.; Holzmann, Alois; Peters, Anne; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 5, pp. 825-833

Postcopulatory processes might play an important role in sexual selection. In theory, fertilization success could be controlled by females via selection of particular sperm within their reproductive tract, or it could be determined by sperm competition per se. In practice, these two mechanisms...

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Determinants of the intention to consume edible insects in Brazil

Lucchese-Cheung, Thelma; Aguiar, Luís Kluwe de; Silva, … - In: Journal of food products marketing : innovations in … 26 (2020) 4, pp. 297-316

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Sexually transmitted nematodes affect spermatophylax production in the cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus

Luong, Lien T.; Kaya, Harry K. - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 153-158

Parasites can influence various aspects of host reproduction and mating, including spermatophore production. In the … cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus, males transfer to females a two-part spermatophore containing a sperm-filled ampulla and a …

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Variation in paternity in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus: no detectable influence of sperm numbers or sperm length

Simmons, Leigh W.; Wernham, Julie; Garci´a-Gonza´lez, … - In: Behavioral Ecology 14 (2003) 4, pp. 539-545

oceanicus. Sperm length did not influence the rate of migration of sperm from the spermatophore to the female's spermatheca. We …

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Experimental evidence that partner choice is a driving force in the payoff distribution among cooperators or mutualists: the cleaner fish case

Bshary, R.; Grutter, A. S. - 2002

Supply and demand largely determine the price of goods on human markets. It has been proposed that in animals, similar forces influence the payoff distribution between trading partners in Sexual selection, intraspecific cooperation and interspecific mutualism. Here we present the first...

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Trade-offs within and between sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies (Diptera: Diopsidae)

Fry, Catherine L - 2006

The allocation of limited resources to competing body parts during development may affect both the absolute and relative sizes of physical traits, creating potentially dramatic consequences for the evolution of morphology. While negative correlations between the sizes of body parts...

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Toward a theory of mutual mate choice: Lessons from two-sided matching

Bergstrom, Carl T.; Real, Leslie A. - 2000

Theoretical models of mate choice and sexual selection typically make one of two simplifying assumptions. Either mate-preferences are assumed to be uniform (e.g., all females have the same preferences with respect to males), or mate-choice is assumed to be a one-sided affair (e.g., females do...

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Strategic Choice Handicaps when Females Pay the Cost of the Handicap

Nöldeke, Georg; Samuelson, Larry - 2001

We examine a strategic-choice handicap model in which males send costly signals to advertise their quality to females. Females are concerned with the net viability of the male with whom they mate, where net viability is a function of the male's quality and signal. We identify circumstances in...

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