Sexual conflict and sexual networks in bed bugs: the fitness cost of traumatic insemination, female avoidance and male mate choice

JL Yan, ML Dobbin, R Dukas - Proceedings B, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sexual conflict is prevalent among animals and is primarily caused by the fact that the
optimal mating rates are often higher in males than in females. While there is a growing …

Bateman gradients reflect variation in sexual selection in a species with dynamic sex roles

RM Hare, LW Simmons - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Bateman gradients, the slope of the regression of reproductive success on mating success,
are among the most commonly reported measures of sexual selection. They are particularly …

The impact of small groups on pre‐and postcopulatory sexual selection in polyandrous populations

GC McDonald - Ecology and Evolution, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sexual selection is a key evolutionary force but varies widely between populations. Two key
factors that influence sexual selection are the extent to which females copulate with multiple …

Optimal polyandry in fruit flies

JL Yan, JR Rosenbaum, D Yang, R Dukas - Evolution, 2025‏ - academic.oup.com
The study of polyandry has received increasing scientific attention with an emphasis on the
fitness benefits and costs that females derive from mating with multiple males. There are still …

Mating assortment and the strength of sexual selection in a polyandrous population of Cook Strait giant weta

CD Kelly, DT Gwynne - Behavioral Ecology, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Polyandry can profoundly affect the strength of pre-copulatory sexual selection acting on
males because each additional mate acquired by a female means that, all else being equal …

A tangled web: Comparing inter‐and intraspecific mating dynamics in Anasa squash bugs

EV Greenway, JA Hamel… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Reproductive interference, reproductive interactions between heterospecific individuals
including mating, is commonly reported across taxa, but its drivers are still unclear. Studying …

Within-season variations in the social environment: from intra-specific sexual selection to pre-mating isolation

L Daupagne - 2023‏ - theses.hal.science
Spatial and temporal variations in the social environment are predicted to modulate the
pattern of inter-sexual interactions within populations through changes in the operational …

Sexual selection on females in a species with dynamic sex roles

R Hare - 2022‏ - research-repository.uwa.edu.au
Sexual selection on female animals has been historically overlooked. In this thesis I explore
the evolutionary consequences of sexual selection in a bushcricket endemic to Western …