Essays about: "female mate choice"

Found 4 essays containing the words female mate choice.

  1. 1. Differences in velocity between the sexes and stages of courtship in a dance fly

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap

    Author : Filip Myllyaho; [2022-02-17]
    Keywords : Dansfluga; Hilara maura; höghastighetskamera; partner-val; Dance fly; Hilara maura; high-speed camera; mate choice;

    Abstract : Dance flies (Diptera: Empididae: Empidinae) are famous for their elaborate mating behaviour, which can be broken down to three distinct stages in adults: hunting, swarming, and mating. In many species, males hunt for prey that they present as nuptial gifts to recipient females in swarms, after which the pair will copulate in the air or after landing on nearby vegetation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Polyandry and genetic diversity in populations of Pholidoptera griseoaptera along an environmental gradient

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

    Author : Matilda Jutzeler; [2019]
    Keywords : polyandry; genetic diversity; multiple mating; microsatellites; nuptial gift; phenotype;

    Abstract : Polyandry is a common mating pattern in different insect species and it leads to increased genetic diversity in the offspring and prevents inbreeding in populations. According to the theory of mate choice, mates should choose a partner that will increase heterozygosity in their offspring. READ MORE

  4. 3. Non-Independent Mate Choice in Female Humans (Homo sapiens) : Progression to the Field 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Axel Jönses Bernard Agnas; [2016]
    Keywords : Non-independent mate choice; Mate choice copying; Human mate choice; Social transmission.;

    Abstract : There is much evidence that mate-choice decisions made by humans are affected by social/contextual information. Women seem to rate men portrayed in a relationship as more desirable than the same men when portrayed as single. READ MORE

  5. 4. Female mate choice and modulation of oviposition preference in the moth Spodoptera littoralis

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

    Author : Amanda Karlström; [2013]
    Keywords : Spodoptera littoralis; female mate choice; precopulatory assessment; host plant; selection; oviposition; Aedes aegypti; experience;

    Abstract : In this thesis, two aspects of reproductive behaviour in the Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) were studied. The first was whether female moths make a mate choice based on precopulatory assessments of male mating partners, and the second whether larval food plant experience of an ectoparasite modulates the female choice of oviposition site. READ MORE