Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects /

This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in taxon-oriented chapters that offer many new perspe...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Peretti, Alfredo V. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Aisenberg, Anita. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17894-3
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.