Sexual selection in insects is about how sexual selection functions in insects. The males of some species have evolved exaggerated adornments and mechanisms...

Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection)...

mainly through sexual selection. These differences may be subtle or exaggerated and may be subjected to sexual selection and natural selection. The opposite...

of natural selection in which some individuals out-reproduce others of a population because they are better at securing mates for sexual reproduction...

Sexual selection in amphibians involves sexual selection processes in amphibians, including frogs, salamanders and newts. Prolonged breeders, the majority...

Sexual selection in spiders shows how sexual selection explains the evolution of phenotypic traits in spiders. Male spiders have many complex courtship...

such as in fungi, may be referred to as mating types. Sexual reproduction, in which two individuals produce an offspring that possesses a selection of the...

related to social insects as they are usually detected by direct contact with chemoreceptors on the antennae or feet of insects. Insect sex pheromones have...

details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many...

membrane plays a role in smelling and subconsciously assessing another human's pheromones. It also affects the sexual attraction of insects and mammals. The...

IL: Aldine Publishing Co.]. "Sexual Selection and Natural Selection". In Campbell, Bernard G. (ed.). Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man: The Darwinian...

also be seen in the chase-away sexual selection model, which places inter-sexual conflicts in the context of secondary sexual characteristic evolution, sensory...

the showy features of the males had evolved by sexual selection. More recently, Amotz Zahavi proposed in his handicap principle that these features acted...

biggest factors that leads to the development of sexual dimorphism in shorebirds is sexual selection. Males with ideal characteristics favored by females...

them acquire mates. Sexual coercion has been observed in many clades, including mammals, birds, insects, and fish. While sexual coercion does help increase...

hypothesis in evolutionary biology and sexual selection, proposed by Patrick J. Weatherhead and Raleigh J. Robertson of Queen's University in Kingston,...

of females. The female predatory selection is the likely driving force behind the development of the extreme sexual size dimorphism. Prior to development...

animal species. The insect nervous system consists of a brain and a ventral nerve cord. Most insects reproduce by laying eggs. Insects breathe air through...

vertebrates reproduce sexually with external fertilization. Spiders are often confused with insects, but they are not insects; instead, they are arachnids...

in plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction produces offspring by the fusion of gametes, resulting in...

Female sperm storage is a biological process and often a type of sexual selection in which sperm cells transferred to a female during mating are temporarily...

characteristic of individuals in another caste. Eusocial colonies can be viewed as superorganisms. Eusociality has evolved among the insects, crustaceans, and mammals...

sexual characteristics, such as patterns of pubic and facial hair and female breasts that emerge at puberty. Because of the strong sexual selection affecting...

multiple methods of defence, for instance in the puss moth. Two chapters examine coloration related to sexual selection. Finally Poulton summarizes the subject...

of sexual selection and natural selection. Studies of the behavior of the Diopsidae have yielded important insights into the development of sexual ornamentation...

between a male and a female within such species. Furthermore, sexual selection can be involved in the development of different types of males with alternative...

have been caused by sexual selection in human evolution for neotenous facial traits in women by men with the resulting neoteny in male faces being a "by-product"...

(1979), "Sexual Selection and Sexual Conflict", Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Insects, Elsevier, pp. 123–166, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-108750-0...

of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display...

In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring...