Cryptic female choice in arthropods : patterns, mechanisms and prospects /: patterns, mechanisms and prospects. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alfredo V. Peretti, Anita Aisenberg, editors.
• Contents: Cryptic Female Choice and Other Types of Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection -- Potential for CFC in Black Widows (Genus Latrodectus): Mechanisms and Social Context -- Cryptic Female Choice Within the Genus Argiope: A Comparative Approach -- Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Two Tropical Orb-Weaving Leucauge Spiders -- Copulatory and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Haplogyne Spiders, With Emphasis on Pholcidae and Oonopidae -- Cryptic Female Choice and Nuptial Prey Gifts an a Spider Model -- Male and Female Mate Choice in Harvestmen: General Patterns and Inferences on the Underlying Processes -- Cryptic Female Choice in Crustaceans -- Female Choice in Damselflies and Dragonflies -- What is Indirect Cryptic Female Choice? Theoretical Considerations and an Example from a Promiscuous Earwig -- Cryptic Female Choice in Crickets and Relatives (Orthoptera: Ensifera) -- Sexual Selection Within the Female Genitalia in Lepidoptera -- Who's Zooming Who? Seminal Fluids and Cryptic Female Choice in Diptera -- An Integrative View of Postcopulatory Sexual Selection in a Soldier Fly: Interplay Between Cryptic Mate Choice and Sperm Competition -- Species-Specific Behavioral Differences in Tsetse Fly Genital Morphology and Probable Cryptic Female Choice -- Evaluating Cryptic Female Choice in Highly Promiscuous Tribolium Beetles -- Female Choice in Social Insects -- Mating is a Give-And-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes.
• Publisher Details: Cham [Switzerland] Heidelberg [Germany] : Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (525 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 595; Life sciences; Arthropoda; Sexual selection; Arthropoda; Sexual selection; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution; Science -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Invertebrates; Animal ecology; Evolution; Zoology: Invertebrates; Animal behavior; Animal ecology; Evolution (Biology); Invertebrates; Science -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General; Animal behaviour; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319178943; 3319178946; 3319178938; 9783319178936
• Related ISBNs: 9783319178936
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 08, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.