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Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods - Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods - Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods,
gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address
key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader
will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in
taxon-oriented chapters that offer many new perspectives and cases
to explore and in many cases unpublished data. Many groups of
arthropods such as spiders, harvestmen, flies, moths, crickets,
earwigs, beetles, eusocial insects, shrimp and crabs are discussed.
Sexual selection is currently the focus of numerous and
controversial theoretical and experimental studies. Selection in
mating and post-mating patterns can be shaped by several different
mechanisms, including sperm competition, extreme sexual conflict
and cryptic female choice. Discrimination among males during or
after copulation is called cryptic female choice because it occurs
after intromission, the event that was formerly used as the
definitive criterion of male reproductive success and is therefore
usually difficult to detect and confirm. Because it sequentially
follows intra- and intersexual interactions that occur before
copulation, cryptic female choice has the power to alter or negate
precopulatory sexual selection. However, though female roles in
biasing male paternity after copulation have been proposed for a
number of species distributed in many animal groups, cryptic female
choice continues to be often underestimated. Furthermore, in recent
years the concept of sexual conflict has been frequently misused,
linking sexual selection by female choice irrevocably and
exclusively with sexually antagonistic co-evolution, without
exploring other alternatives. The book offers an essential source
of information on how two fields, selective cooperation and
individual sex interests, work together in the context of cryptic
female choice in nature, using arthropods as model organisms. It is
bound to spark valuable discussions among scientists working in
evolutionary biology across the world, motivating new generations
to unveil the astonishing secrets of sexual biology throughout the
animal kingdom.
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