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Creator:: Sapp, Jerod Rothwell
Abstract:: Salamander courtship coordinates the exchange of gametes. Plethodontids have evolved an elaborate means by which this is done. Throughout the family Plethodontidae a tail-straddling walk is performed to orchestrate the transfer of sperm. Typically this behavior is linear, however in the genus Aneides there are exceptions. In the genus Aneides...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Behavior in the Salamander Genus Aneides. Abstract approve Salamander courtship coordinates the exchange

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: subject in the bioassay. If the animal displays the appropriate behavior to a fraction, components of the

Creator:: Pinckard, Kelly Lynn
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: behavior in hetersexual, male-oriented and asexual rams AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kelly Lynn Pinckard

Creator:: Propper, Catherine R.
Abstract:: This thesis describes studies that investigated 1) the effects of courtship on the neuroendocrine system of female rough-skinned newts, Taricha granulosa, and 2) whether the observed courtship-induced neuroendocrine changes affected female sexual receptivity. Sexual behaviors of female T. granulosa changed dramatically during courtship. Initially, females exhibited unreceptive behaviors to a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: promiscuity is common and widespread across animal taxa (Smith 1984; Birkhead & Møller 1998; Simmons 2001

Creator:: Orchinik, Miles
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: mechanisms mediating the rapid suppression of male reproductive behavior following stress or corticosteroid

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