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Emergence of games from ecological trade-offs: longevity changes strategies for extra-pair mating in birds
AbstractEach member of a breeding pair benefits if the other does more of the parental investment, so there is scope for behaviours that can be...
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From self-interest to cooperation: extra-pair mating as a driver of relaxed territorial aggression in social neighbourhoods
In socially monogamous bird species, males and females tailor their reproductive strategies to that of the other. Interactions are complex, and have...
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Mating pair stabilization mediates bacterial conjugation species specificity
Bacterial conjugation mediates contact-dependent transfer of DNA from donor to recipient bacteria, thus facilitating the spread of virulence and...
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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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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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Individual spawning performance and mating pair combinations in captive grouper aggregations
Spawning aggregations have been widely observed in fish. However, individual reproductive performance in aggregations has rarely been measured...
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Mating Behaviour and Reproductive Biology of Insect Predators
In sexually reproducing animals, fertilisation and insemination (the exchange of male sperm for female sperm) constitute the process of reproduction...
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Mating system induced lags in rates of range expansion for different simulated mating systems and dispersal strategies: a modelling study
Mismatches between current and potential species distributions are commonplace due to lags in the response of populations to changing environmental...
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Size-assortative mating in a long-lived monogamous seabird
Mate choice is a key process in animals to optimize the fitness benefits of reproduction, and it is generally guided by phenotypic features of...
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Inter- and Intrapopulation Variation in Bottlenose Dolphin Mating Strategies
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.) live in complex societies with high fission-fusion dynamics and exhibit a polygynandrous mating system in which...
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Mating Behaviour
In sexually reproducing animals, reproduction entails insemination (the transfer of the male’s sperm to the female) and fertilisation (the fusion of...
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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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Uncovering the history of recombination and population structure in western Canadian stripe rust populations through mating type alleles
BackgroundThe population structure of crop pathogens such as Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici ( Pst ), the cause of wheat stripe rust, is of...
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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...
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Age-related reductions in within-individual variation increase the repeatability of mating behaviour
AbstractBehavioural ageing patterns can vary among individuals and can predict long-term changes in the extent of among-individual variation in...
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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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Replenishment of Drosophila Male Pheromone After Mating
Insect exocrine gland products can be involved in sexual communication, defense, territory labelling, aggregation and alarm. In the vinegar fly Drosoph...
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Post-whaling shift in mating tactics in male humpback whales
Recent studies have shown behavioural plasticity in mating strategies can increase a population’s ability to cope with anthropogenic impacts. The...
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Olfactory Mating Signals in the Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria
Swarming locusts cause huge plagues across the world threatening food production. Before swarms form, locust populations exhibit a dramatic phase...
