Cryptic female choice is a form of mate choice which occurs both in pre and post copulatory circumstances when females in certain species use physical...

in which females may preferentially utilize sperm from some males over those of others, called female sperm preference or cryptic female choice (e.g. many...

Consequently, females can store sperm internally for as long as five years, or possibly longer. This phenomenon is known as cryptic female choice, as the physiological...

and cryptic female choice. Sperm competition occurs where the sperm of more than one male competes to fertilise the egg of the female. Cryptic female choice...

microorganisms. Females may spawn several times in this fashion from a full seminal receptacle. I. paradoxus has been used in the study of cryptic female choice due...

and cryptic female choice. Sperm competition occurs when the sperm of more than one male competes to fertilize the egg of the female. Cryptic female choice...

S2CID 905005. Birkhead, T. R. (1998). "Cryptic Female Choice: Criteria for Establishing Female Sperm Choice". Evolution. 52 (4): 1212–1218. doi:10.1111/j...

any male phenotype that limits female cryptic choice will induce a cost on the female. Often, cryptic female choice occurs in polyandrous or polygamous...

hypotheses as to what impacts female genital evolution: lock-and-key (genitals must fit together), cryptic female choice (females affect whether males can...

counter-strategies that involve cryptic female choice and sexually selected infanticide. The hypothesis of sexually selected infanticide is a female counterstrategy that...

sexual selection can continue after copulation, the so called 'cryptic female choice', so named because it takes place within the body and cannot be...

scientists have investigated sperm competition, sexual size dimorphism, cryptic female choice, the role of pheromones in mating behaviour, and the function and...

competition to attain "good genes", cryptic female choice, increased genetic quality, and genetic diversity. Females spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) store more...

female can only choose the time in which she releases her eggs, but not when they are fertilized. This is similar, in ways, to cryptic female choice....

pre or post copulatory. In species where cryptic female choice is one of the main sources of competition females are able to choose sperm from among various...

driven by intersexual conflict, lock-and-key genital evolution, and cryptic female choice, especially given the high level of variation within species as...

Press p92 ISBN 0-19-850392-X Eberhard, W.G. 1996. Female control: sexual selection by cryptic female choice. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press...

near the eyespot that seems to increase the females likelihood of mating with a specific peacock. Mate choice is a major component of sexual selection,...

mates (Oceana). Researchers have hypothesized that there may be cryptic female choice or sperm competition (Morse et al., 2018). In the paper, Mating...

pheromone secretion, nuptial gifts, and cryptic female choice. When males are attempting to attract females, other nearby males may approach in an attempt...

system, an example of cryptic female choice. Although current results are inconclusive regarding whether or not females are cryptically selecting for a better...

a female's inclination to mate with multiple males and her ability to store sperm allows for sperm competition and suggests cryptic female choice. However...

Sixth Edition. 429–519. Eberhard, William 1996 Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice ISBN 0-691-01084-6 Freeman, Scott; Herron, Jon...

Marsh-Rollo, Susan E. (2016). "Ovarian fluid allows directional cryptic female choice despite external fertilization". Nature Communications. 7: 12452...

hdl:10072/384437. PMID 30811910. Eberhard, W. G. 1996. Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey...

use one or the other. Females have little control when it comes to cryptic female choice. Female Drosophila through cryptic choice, one of several post-copulatory...

the method. Females also control the outcomes of matings, and there exists the possibility that females choose sperm (cryptic female choice). A dramatic...

Bradford; McClafferty, Julie (July 1, 2022). "Male traits under cryptic female choice in the spotted cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". academic...

storage organs. The inhibition of sperm storage by female crickets can act as a form of cryptic female choice to avoid the severe negative effects of inbreeding...

mate. MHC-mediated mate choice may occur after copulation, at the gametic level, through sperm competition or female cryptic choice. The Atlantic salmon...