Conventional sex roles imply caring females and competitive males. The evolution of sex
role divergence is widely attributed to anisogamy initiating a self‐reinforcing process. The …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides insights for behavioral ecology from behavioral
syndromes. A behavioral syndrome involves behavioral consistency, both within and …

Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes is the first integrated review of the reproductive
biology of the bony fishes, which are the most species-rich and diversified group of …

Parents that kill and consume their offspring often appear to be acting against their own
reproductive interests. Yet parent–offspring cannibalism is common and taxonomically …

The utilization of zebrafish in biomedical research is very common in the research world
nowadays. Today, it has emerged as a favored vertebrate organism for the research in …

Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) coexisting within a population are found in many
organisms. Their existence has been an enduring puzzle in evolutionary biology. Why …

This book is the first to give a complete overview of the current knowledge of annual fishes,
covering their life cycle, reproductive biology, evolutionary ecology, reproductive behavior …

Why females would mate with multiple partners and have multiple fathers for clutches or
litters is a long-standing enigma. There is a broad dichotomy in hypotheses ranging from …

Strong sexual selection may lead small males or males in poor condition to adopt alternative
reproductive tactics (ARTs) as a way to avoid the risk of being completely excluded from the …

Polygyny is a widespread and evolutionarily significant mating system in vertebrates. The
southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina, has often been cited as being extremely …