Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects

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 fol...

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Other Authors: Peretti, Alfredo V. (Editor), Aisenberg, Anita (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Cryptic Female Choice and Other Types of Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection
  • Potential for CFC in Black Widows (Genus Latrodectus): Mechanisms and Social Context
  • Cryptic Female Choice Within the Genus Argiope: A Comparative Approach
  • Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Two Tropical Orb-Weaving Leucauge Spiders
  • Copulatory and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Haplogyne Spiders, With Emphasis on Pholcidae and Oonopidae
  • Cryptic Female Choice and Nuptial Prey Gifts an a Spider Model
  • Male and Female Mate Choice in Harvestmen: General Patterns and Inferences on the Underlying Processes
  • Cryptic Female Choice in Crustaceans
  • Female Choice in Damselflies and Dragonflies
  • What is Indirect Cryptic Female Choice? Theoretical Considerations and an Example from a Promiscuous Earwig
  • Cryptic Female Choice in Crickets and Relatives (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
  • Sexual Selection Within the Female Genitalia in Lepidoptera
  • Who’s Zooming Who? Seminal Fluids and Cryptic Female Choice in Diptera
  • An Integrative View of Postcopulatory Sexual Selection in a Soldier Fly: Interplay Between Cryptic Mate Choice and Sperm Competition
  • Species-Specific Behavioral Differences in Tsetse Fly Genital Morphology and Probable Cryptic Female Choice
  • Evaluating Cryptic Female Choice in Highly Promiscuous Tribolium Beetles
  • Female Choice in Social Insects
  • Mating is a Give–And–Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes