Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects (eBook)

Leigh W. Simmons (Autor)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20703-2 (ISBN)

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One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, Parker realized that sexual selection continues after mating through sperm competition. Because females often mate with multiple males before producing offspring, selection favors adaptations that allow males to preempt sperm from previous males and to prevent their own sperm from preemption by future males. Since the 1970s, this area of research has seen exponential growth, and biologists now recognize sperm competition as an evolutionary force that drives such adaptations as mate guarding, genital morphology, and ejaculate chemistry across all animal taxa. The insects have been critical to this research, and they still offer the greatest potential to reveal fully the evolutionary consequences of sperm competition. This book analyzes and extends thirty years of theoretical and empirical work on insect sperm competition. It considers both male and female interests in sperm utilization and the sexual conflict that can arise when these differ. It covers the mechanics of sperm transfer and utilization, morphology, physiology, and behavior. Sperm competition is shown to have dramatic effects on adaptation in the context of reproduction as well as far-reaching ramifications on life-history evolution and speciation. Written by a top researcher in the field, this comprehensive, up-to-date review of the evolutionary causes and consequences of sperm competition in the insects will prove an invaluable reference for students and established researchers in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Reihe/Serie: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone, 80 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: acrosome reaction • allopatric speciation • Alternative mating strategy • Antagonistic Coevolution • Arachnid • Artificial Insemination • Assortative Mating • Calopteryx (insect) • Charles Darwin • Chiasma (genetics) • Chromosomal translocation • copulation • courtship • Courtship display • Cryptic Female Choice • Cytoplasmic incompatibility • Directional selection • disruptive selection • Divergent evolution • Drosophila • Drosophila bifurca • Drosophila embryogenesis • Drosophila melanogaster • Drosophila pseudoobscura • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary pressure • External fertilization • Fecundity selection • female • Female sperm • Female sperm storage • Fertilisation • Fisherian runaway • Gene Flow • genetic variability • genetic variance • Growth curve (biology) • Growth curve (statistics) • haplodiploidy • Homology (biology) • Implantation (human embryo) • Inbreeding • Insect physiology • Insemination • Insertion (genetics) • Internal fertilization • Intragenomic conflict • Juvenile hormone • kin selection • Male accessory gland • mate choice • mating • Mating plug • Mating system • Meiosis • Meiotic drive • Mendelian Inheritance • Natural selection • Nuptial flight • Nuptial gift • Operational sex ratio • Oviparity • Parasitoid • Parasitoid wasp • Parental investment • Pheromone • Polymorphism (biology) • Reproductive success • Reproductive system • Reproductive value (population genetics) • Scramble competition • Sex allocation • sex organ • Sex pheromone • Sex Ratio • Sexual cannibalism • sexual conflict • Sexual Dimorphism • Sexual mimicry • sexual reproduction • Sexual Selection • Spawn (biology) • species complex • Sperm • Spermalege • Spermatheca • Spermatid • Spermatocyte • Spermatogenesis • spermatophore • Spermatophylax • spermatozoon • sperm competition • spermicide • sperm motility • Testicle • Traumatic insemination • Worker policing • XY sex-determination system
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20703-8 / 0691207038
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20703-2 / 9780691207032