Excluding insects, hermaphroditism occurs in about one‐third of animal species, providing
numerous opportunities for the evolution of selfing. Here we provide an overview of …

The genetics of marine populations is a subject that has made little progress compared with
the effort spent on the terrestrial environment. This is so despite “applied” aspects such as …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional
conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional …

We develop a theoretical description of sperm chemotaxis. Sperm cells of many species are
guided to the egg by chemoattractants, a process called chemotaxis. Motor proteins in the …

The fitness or population growth rate of populations with Allee effects increases with
increasing population size or density up to a certain threshold. Allee effects are possible in …

Intraspecific variation in offspring size is of fundamental ecological and evolutionary
importance. The level of provisioning an organism receives from its mother can have far …

The distributional patterns of benthic foraminifera provide key information for paleoclimatic,
paleoecologic, and paleoceanographic studies. Yet the dispersal mechanisms that provide …

Loss of foundation reef-corals is eroding the viability of reef communities and ecosystem
function in many regions globally. Coral populations are naturally resilient but when …

For octocorals, sexual reproductive processes are fundamental to maintaining populations
and influencing macroevolutionary processes. While ecological data on octocorals have …