Highlights•Eberhard's scientific legacy attests to the value of detailed behavioural
observations.•His research defined and catalogued copulatory courtship and cryptic female …

Climates are changing rapidly, demanding equally rapid adaptation of natural populations.
Whether sexual selection can aid such adaptation is under debate; while sexual selection …

Vigna unguiculata, one of the most important legumes, mainly in underdeveloped countries,
is susceptible to post-harvest losses in storage by Callosobruchus maculatus (Fabricius …

Sexual selection and the evolution of costly mating strategies can negatively impact
population viability and adaptive potential. While laboratory studies have documented …

In the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus, the male intromittent organ is covered in
sharp spines that pierce the female copulatory tract wall during mating. Although the fitness …

Natural selection and post‐copulatory sexual selection, including sexual conflict, contribute
to genital diversification. Fundamental first steps in understanding how these processes …

One conspicuous manifestation of sexual conflict is traumatic mating, in which male genitalia
damage the female during copulation. The penis of the seed beetle, Callosobruchus …

Phenotypic plasticity allows animals to maximize fitness by conditionally expressing the
phenotype best adapted to their environment. Although evidence for such adjustment in …

There is growing evidence that many organisms adjust their physiology and behaviour
during sexual encounters according to changes in their sociosexual situation. Selection …

The effects of temperature on cellular, systemic and whole-organism processes can be short-
term, acting within seconds or minutes of a temperature change, or long-term, acting across …