Ingo Schlupp

Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual Selection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This novel text reviews our current understanding of male mate choice and female competition, highlighting the important connections between them. It places both concepts in the context of related fields such as female choice, mating systems, and sexual selection theory more broadly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 196mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780192872586
• ISBN-10: 0192872583
• Artikelnr.: 66269273

Autorenporträt

Ingo Schlupp is Presidential Professor of Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, USA. He is broadly interested in ecology and evolution; in particular, he wants to understand some of the old, deep puzzles in evolution, such as the evolution of meiosis, speciation, and large scale biogeography. Most of his work uses livebearing fishes as model organisms.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Sexual Selection, Mate Choice, and Competition for Mates
2: Female and Male Mate Choice: Similarities and Differences
3: Examples of Male Mate Choice
4: What Males Choose: Differences in Female Quality
5: Male Investment and Male Choice
6: Mechanism of Male Choice: Sex Ratios
7: Ornaments in Females
8: Female-Female Competition
9: Synthesis and Outlook