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Male Mating Strategy and Preference for Females of Different Maturity Stages in the Small Water Strider, Microvelia iriomotensis (Heteroptera: Veliidae)
Precopulatory mate guarding behavior is a common strategy among males of many species. Although this behavior increases male reproductive success, it...
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Developmental temperature alters the thermal sensitivity of courtship activity and signal–preference relationships, but not mating rates
Mating behaviors are sensitive to novel or stressful thermal conditions, particularly for ectothermic organisms. An organism’s sensitivity to...
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Does female control and male mating system predict courtship investment and mating outcomes? A comparative study in five widow spider species (genus Latrodectus) tested under similar laboratory conditions
BackgroundMale courtship investment may evolve in response to the male’s expectation of future mating opportunities or the degree of female control...
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Lack of Female Preference for Nuptial Gifts May Have Led to Loss of the Male Sexual Trait
Evolutionary loss of sexual traits may occur if the forces that maintain those traits weaken or disappear. Females may evolve resistance or a change...
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Little evidence for color- or size-based mating preferences by male strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio)
AbstractWhile there are many studies documenting female mating preferences across taxa, male mate choice remains relatively understudied. Male mate...
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Mating Systems
The ways by which male and female birds locate and choose each other for mating, the number of mates during a breeding season and during a bird’s...
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Fight outcome influences male mating success in Drosophila prolongata
The outcomes of preceding fights can influence the probability of winning a subsequent fight, known as the winner/loser effect. However, we know...
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Cryptic Mate Preference in Male Bicyclus anynana Butterflies
While male mate choice has received sparse attention in comparison to female choice, it occurs often in insects. In addition, male insects may...
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Characteristics of breeding habitat, genetic mating system, and determinants of male mating success in the sponge-dwelling goby Elacatinus lori
AbstractDetermining the patterns and causes of variation in reproductive success is key to understanding mating systems and sexual selection, but...
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Mating Systems
Males and females have evolved a particular set of tactics and strategies, or mating systems, to find and successfully inseminate or be inseminated...
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Male mating strategies to counter sexual conflict in spiders
When sexual conflict selects for reproductive strategies that only benefit one of the sexes, evolutionary arms races may ensue. Female sexual...
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Chemical cues in the mating behavior of a highly polygynous bird
Visual and auditory signals are well-established components of avian courtship, but the role of chemical signaling remains poorly understood,...
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Endurance rivalry and female choice jointly influence male mating success in the emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran
BackgroundEndurance rivalry and female choice are two important mechanisms of sexual selection in lek-breeding species. Endurance rivalry is when...
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Male age and sexual experience affect male mating behavior in the hawthorn spider mite, Amphitetranychus viennensis
As is reported, in species with first-male sperm precedence, male age and previous sexual experience play crucial roles in male mating behavior. In...
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Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog
AbstractComplex sexual signals spanning multiple sensory modalities may be common in nature, yet few studies have explored how combinations of...
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Mating alters the food choices of adult ladybird beetle (Propylea dissecta mulsant)
Mating alters nutritional and energetic needs which result in behavioural and physiological changes related to reproduction. But little is known as...
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Wartime forced sex as a male mating strategy
The aim of this study was an analytical justification of the emergence and presence of the phenomenon of war among hominins , taking into account...
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Good body condition increases male attractiveness but not caring quality in a neotropical arachnid with male-only care
AbstractFemale mate choice is usually based on traits that signal male quality as a sexual partner. According to the “good parent” hypothesis, female...
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Female age and reproductive stage influence copulation patterns in mountain gorillas’ variable mating system
AbstractVariation in mating systems and in individuals’ copulation patterns can have important consequences for the genetic structure of a population...
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Mating behavior in the Japanese badger Meles anakuma
We describe the details of the mating behavior of the Japanese badger, Meles anakuma, using camera trap**. Similar to other mustelid species, the...
