Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
1 - Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
Summary
We need a new theory of mating systems … [one] that incorporates the conflicting interests of males and females, and the factors determining which sex is in control, in order to predict patterns of male-female pairing.
Gross, 1994Given that females, to one extent or another, subvert male interests by the internal manipulation of ejaculate, it is not inconceivable that males will have evolved little openers, snippers, levers and syringes that put sperm in the places females have evolved (‘intended’) for sperm with priority usage - collectively a veritable Swiss Army Knife of gadgetry!
Lloyd, 1979ABSTRACT
The male–female interaction is an asymmetrical, usually obligate mutualism in which there are conflicts of interest whenever multiple potential partners that vary in quality are available for either sex. Understanding male–female confluences and conflicts of interest is required to explain the sexual sequence and how it evolves. Mating interactions involve multiple steps or stages, distinguishable because of differences arising out of changes in selection that occur during the sequence. Sexual selection and competition take several different forms, which must be understood before accurate interpretations can be made of mating events in any particular case.
Sexual selection guided primarily by male–female conflicts of interest can result in resolvable evolutionary chases that lead to evolutionary stable strategies but perhaps more frequently lead to chases that tend to be unending (Parker 1979).
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