Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
Organism index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
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- The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids , pp. 379 - 384Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997