Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating systems
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Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating systems

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Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating systems

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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.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780126525700
eBook ISBN
9780323143134
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biophysics
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Strategies
  8. Chapter 2. Male Sperm Competition Avoidance Mechanisms:The Influence of Female Interests
  9. Chapter 3. Sperm in Competition
  10. Chapter 4. Male Mating Effort, Confidence of Paternity, and Insect Sperm Comptition
  11. Chapter 5. Alternative Hypotheses for Traits Believed to Have Evolvedby Sperm Competition
  12. Chapter 6. Sperm Transfer and Utilization Strategies in Arachnids:Ecological and Morphological Constraints
  13. Chapter 7 Evolution of Sperm Priority Patterns in Spiders
  14. Chapter 8. Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Odonate Mating Systems
  15. Chapter 9. Multiple Mating and Sperm Competition in the Lepidoptera
  16. Chapter 10. Sperm Transfer and Use in the Multiple Mating System of Drosophila
  17. Chapter 11. Sperm Competition, Kinship, and Sociality in the Aculeate Hymenoptera
  18. Chapter 12. Sperm Competition in Poeciliid Fishes
  19. Chapter 13. Sperm Competition in Amphibians
  20. Chapter 14. Potential for Sperm Competition in Reptiles:Behavioral and Physiological Consequences
  21. Chapter 15. Sperm Competition in Apparently Monogamous Birds
  22. Chapter 16. Sperm Competition in Muroid Rodents
  23. Chapter 17. Sperm Competition? The Case of Vespertilionidand Rhinolophid Bats
  24. Chapter 18. Sperm Competition, Testes Size, and Breeding Systemsin Primates
  25. Chapter 19. Human Sperm Competition
  26. Index