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Author : Darryl T Gwynne
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Orthopteran Mating Systems written by Darryl T Gwynne and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randy Thornhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems written by Randy Thornhill and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jae C. Choe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521580293
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids written by Jae C. Choe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David M. Shuker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199678022
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems written by David M. Shuker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated version of: The evolution of insect mating systems / Randy Thornhill and John Alcock. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983. (Preface).
Author : Darryl T Gwynne
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Orthopteran Mating Systems written by Darryl T Gwynne and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randy Thornhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674271814
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems written by Randy Thornhill and published by . This book was released on 1985-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. Smith
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 032314313X
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating systems written by Robert L. Smith and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems describes the role of sperm competition in selection on a range of attributes from gamete morphology to species mating systems. This book is organized into 19 chapters and begins with the conceptualization of sperm competition as a subset of sexual selection and its implications for the insects. The following chapter describes the relationship between multiple mating and female fitness, with an emphasis on determining the conditions under which selection on females is likely to counteract selection on males for avoiding sperm competition. Other chapters consider the female perspective on sperm competition; the evolutionary causation at the level of the individual male gamete; and the correlation of high paternal investment and sperm precedence in the insects. The remaining chapters are arranged phylogenetically and explore the sperm competition in diverse animal taxa, such as the Drosophila, Lepidoptera, spiders, amphibians, and reptiles. These chapters also cover the evolution of direct versus indirect sperm transfer among the arachnids or the problem for kinship theory presented by multiple mating and sperm competition in the Hymenoptera. This book further discusses the remarkable potential for sperm competition among certain temperate bat species whose females store sperm through winter hibernation and the mixed strategies and male-caused female genital trauma as possible sperm competition adaptations in poeciliid fishes. The concluding chapter examines the predictions concerning testes size and mating systems in the primates and the possible role of sperm competition in human selection. This book is of great value to reproductive biologists and researchers.
Author : Wiese
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034864108
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods written by Wiese and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darryl T. Gwynne
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801436550
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Katydids and Bush-crickets written by Darryl T. Gwynne and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : World Book
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780716629504
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Grasshoppers and Their Relatives written by World Book and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do grasshoppers eat? How do grasshoppers make music? How big can a locust swarm get? Read this book to find out!
Author : Russell Jurenka
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323902847
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Sound Communication in Insects written by Russell Jurenka and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 61 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Acoustic signaling in Orthoptera, Sound production in Drosophila melanogaster, and Communication by surface borne mechanical waves in insects. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Insect Physiology series
Author : Malte Andersson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691207275
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Sexual Selection written by Malte Andersson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals, and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they may reduce male survival? Such questions prompted Darwin's perhaps most scientifically controversial idea--the theory of sexual selection. It still challenges researchers today as they try to understand how competition for mates can favor the variety of sex-dimorphic traits. Reviewing theoretical and empirical work in this very active field, Malte Andersson, a leading contributor himself, provides a major up-to-date synthesis of sexual selection. The author describes the theory and its recent development; examines models, methods, and empirical tests; and identifies many unsolved problems. Among the topics discussed are the selection and evolution of mating preferences; relations between sexual selection and speciation; constraints on sexual selection; and sex differences in signals, body size, and weapons. The rapidly growing study of sexual selection in plants is also reviewed. This volume will interest students, teachers, and researchers in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology.
Author : H. Carl Gerhardt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226288331
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Acoustic Communication in Insects and Anurans written by H. Carl Gerhardt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering (and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect calls. How are these calls produced? What messages are encoded within the sounds, and how do their intended recipients receive and decode these signals? How does acoustic communication affect and reflect behavioral and evolutionary factors such as sexual selection and predator avoidance? H. Carl Gerhardt and Franz Huber address these questions among many others, drawing on research from bioacoustics, behavior, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology to present the first integrated approach to the study of acoustic communication in insects and anurans. They highlight both the common solutions that these very different groups have evolved to shared challenges, such as small size, ectothermy (cold-bloodedness), and noisy environments, as well as the divergences that reflect the many differences in evolutionary history between the groups. Throughout the book Gerhardt and Huber also provide helpful suggestions for future research.
Author : S. R. Leather
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351082051
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Insect Reproduction written by S. R. Leather and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consisting of ten review chapters contributed by leading workers in their respective fields, from around the world, covers the whole subject of insect reproduction.It begins with the basic physiological questions of insect reproduction, moves on to discuss the new advances seen in the fields of behavioural and ecological mechanisms, and culminates by examining the recent work on evolutionary biology and its application in the field. Each chapter, although including a brief review of the basic seminal work, focuses mainly on the advances made within the last ten years and highlights those areas in which the respective authors see the greatest scope for further important advances
Author : Rui F. Oliveira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139469525
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Alternative Reproductive Tactics written by Rui F. Oliveira and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest to researchers. For instance, why do some males guard both nest and eggs, while others sneak into nests while pairs are spawning and fertilise those eggs? The field offers a special opportunity to study the evolution and functional causes of phenotypic variation, which is a general problem in the field of evolutionary biology. By integrating both mechanistic (psychological) and evolutionary (behavioural ecology) perspectives and by covering a great diversity of species, Alternative Reproductive Tactics addresses this integrated topic of longstanding interest, bringing together a multitude of otherwise scattered information in an accessible form that is ideal for graduate students and researchers.
Author : William Eberhard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691207208
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Female Control written by William Eberhard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing body of evidence has begun to reveal flaws in the traditional assumption of female passivity and lack of discrimination after copulation has begun. William Eberhard has compiled an impressive array of research on the ability of females to shape the outcome of mating. He describes studies of many different cryptic mechanisms by which a female can accept a male for copulation but nevertheless reject him as a father. Evidence from various fields indicates that such selectivity by females may be the norm rather than the exception. Because most post-copulatory competition between males for paternity is played out within the bodies of females, female behavior, morphology, and physiology probably often influence male success in these contests. Eberhard draws examples from a diversity of organisms, ranging from ctenophores to scorpions, nematodes to frogs, and crickets to humans. Cryptic female choice establishes a new bridge between sexual selection theory and reproductive physiology, in particular the physiological effects of male seminal products on female reproductive processes, such as sperm transport, oviposition, and remating. Eberhard interweaves his review of previous studies with speculation on the consequences of this theoretical development, and indicates promising new directions for future research.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123978726
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Advances in the Study of Behavior written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields.Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect full-text online from volume 30 onward. Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior Makes another importantcontribution to the development of the field Presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields
