Mating Systems and StrategiesThis book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection, the authors illustrate how and why sexual selection, though restricted to one sex and opposed in the other, is one of the strongest and fastest of all evolutionary forces. They offer a statistical framework for studying mating system evolution and apply it to patterns of alternative mating strategies. In doing so, they provide a method for quantifying how the strength of sexual selection is affected by the ecological and life history processes that influence females' spatial and temporal clustering and reproductive schedules. |
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... genes in any generation are derived from each sex in the previous generation (Falconer 1989). Selection restricted to ... genetic material affecting tail length in the offspring generation has not been selectively screened but rather has ...
... genes are expressed in both sexes; the limitation of a gene's expression to one sex is itself an evolved property of that gene or the developmental genetic system. Indeed, when artificial selection is practiced on only one sex, the ...
... genes that reduce the genetic correlation between a trait expressed in males and the same trait expressed in females. Reducing the genetic correlation reduces the limitation imposed by the sex difference in the direction of selection ...
... genetic drift or mutation. Many equilibrium states in evolutionary genetics represent a balance between opposing evolutionary forces, such as mutation-selection balance (Hartl and Clark 1989; Lynch et al. 1998). The evolution 10 ▫ CHAPTER ...
... genes and developmental processes are involved in the determination of both larval and adult body size; (2) different ... genetic studies in the field or laboratory. A third criticism by Downhowner et al. (1987) states that measurements ...
Contents
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3 The Phenology of Sexual Selection | 74 |
4 Multiple Matings and Postcopulatory Prezygotic Sexual Selection ... | 109 |
5 Female Life History and Sexual Selection | 128 |
6 The I Surface | 154 |
7 Conceptual Difficulties in Mating System Research ... | 169 |
8 Behavioral Influences on I | 208 |
10 A Darwinian Perspective on Alternative Mating Strategies ... | 370 |
11 Sexual Selection and Alternative Mating Strategies ... | 386 |
12 The Forms of Alternative Mating Strategies | 423 |
References | 471 |
Author Index | 517 |
Word Index | 526 |
Taxonomic Index | 530 |
9 A Classification of Mating Systems | 262 |