Since allozymes were first used to assess genetic diversity in the 1960s and 1970s,
biologists have attempted to characterize gene pools and conserve the diversity observed in …

There are two reasons why researchers are interested in the phenotypic relationship
between the expression of male secondary sexual characters (SSCs) and 'ejaculate …

Inbreeding depression, the reduced fitness of the offspring of related individuals, can affect
males and females differently. Although a comprehensive theoretical framework describing …

Augmenting depleted genetic diversity can improve the fitness and evolutionary potential of
wildlife populations, but develo** effective management approaches requires genetically …

Sexual selection can operate both before and after mating. For males, selection will favor a
suite of traits involved in mate acquisition (precopulatory) and in the competition among …

Males often strategically adjust the number of available sperm based on the social context
(ie sperm priming response), but it remains unclear how environmental and genetic factors …

Fisheries often combine high mortality with intensive size selectivity and can, thus, be
expected to reduce body size and size variability in exploited populations. In many fish …

In polyandrous species, a male's reproductive success depends on his fertilization capability
and traits enhancing competitive fertilization success will be under strong, directional …

Abstract The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) has been widely cultured as a commercially
important bivalve. Intercrossing of inbred strains is regarded as an efficient method to …

One key objective in evolutionary ecology is to understand the magnitude of inbreeding
depression expressed across sex‐specific components of fitness. One major component of …