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  • Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system

    Creator:
    Friesen, Christopher R.
    Abstract:
    Postcopulatory sexual selection—sperm competition and cryptic female choice—has become a major area of research over the past 40 years. Within this field there are many outstanding questions at every level of analysis, from proximate to ultimate. The fitness consequences for both sexes in the period after copulation and before fertilization...
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    Dissertation
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    Selection and Sexual Conflict in a Novel Mating System Abstract approved: Robert T. Mason

  • Pheromonal mediation of reproductive behavior in the brown tree snake

    Creator:
    Greene, Michael John
    Abstract:
    In animals, reproductive behaviors serve to attract individuals together during the breeding season and to coordinate the behavioral and physiological states of individuals so that mating can successfully occur. In snakes, the various reproductive behaviors including courtship, mating, courtship inhibition, male combat and trailing are mediated primarily by pheromones. Pheromones...
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    Dissertation
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    Reproductive Behavior in the Brown Tree Snake. Abstract approved: Robert T. Mason In animals, reproductive