The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems

✍ Scribed by Randy Thornhill; John Alcock

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1983
Tongue: English
Leaves: 560
Edition: Reprint 2014
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1. Evolutionary Hypotheses and Tests
2. Modes of Reproduction
3. Sexual Selection Theory
4. Timing of Mate Locating
5. Motivation to Copulate
6. Competition in the Attraction of Females
7. Selection and Defense of Mating Sites
8. Male Mating Systems
9. Intraspecific Variation in Male Mating Systems
10. Protection of Females during Courtship and Copulation
11. Sperm Competition and the Fertilization of Eggs
12. Selective Mate Choice by Females
13. Mechanisms of Female Choice
14. Female Mating Systems
References
Author Index
Subject Index

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