The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids

Comprehensive guide to the evolution of sexual conflict and cooperation in insects and arachnids.

Jae C. Choe (Edited by), Bernard J. Crespi (Edited by)

9780521589765, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 June 1997

400 pages, 73 b/w illus. 21 tables
24.5 x 18.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.71 kg

'… fascinating book … an excellent and absorbing read about an important area, and will be enjoyed by both professionals and students of animal behaviour.' Biologist

Insects and arachnids display the most impressive diversity of mating and social behaviour among all animals. This book investigates sexual competition in these groups, and the variety of ways in which males and females pursue, persuade, manipulate, control and help one another, enabling us to gain a better understanding of how conflicts and confluences of interest evolve together. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of mating systems in particular insect and arachnid groups, discusses intrinsic and extrinsic factors responsible for observed mating strategies, and suggests fruitful avenues for further research. The book culminates in a synthesis, reviewing the date in terms of the theory of sexual conflict. This broad-based book will be of immense value to students and researchers interested in reproductive strategies, behavioural ecology, entomology and arachnology.

Introduction
1. Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating Richard D. Alexander, David Marshall, and John Cooley
2. Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids William G. Eberhard
3. Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns Ola M. Finke, Jonathan Waage, and Walter D. Koenig
4. Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers Michael D. Greenfield
5. Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) Marlene Zuk and Leigh W. Simmons
6. The evolution of edible 'sperm sacs' and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera) Darryl T. Gwynne
7. Sexual conflicts and the evolution of mating patterns in the Zoraptera Jae C. Choe
8. The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts Goran Arnqvist
9. Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Janis L. Dickinson
10. Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution James E. Lloyd
11. Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropteroid insects Charles S. Henry
12. Mating systems of parasitoid wasps H. C. J. Godfray and J. M. Cook
13. Fig wasp mating systems: pollinators and parasites, sex ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences E. A. Herre, S. A. West, J. M. Cook, S. G. Compton and F. Kjellberg
14. Predictions from sexual selection on the evolution of mating systems in moths P. Larry Phelan
15. Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies Ronald L. Rutowski
16. Lek behaviour of insects Todd Shelly and Timothy S. Whittier
17. Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects John Sivinski and Erik Petersson
18. Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies Gerald S. Wilkinson and Gary N. Dodson
19. Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions David W. Zeh and Jeanne A. Zeh
20. Jumping spider mating strategies: sex with cannibals in and out of webs Robert R. Jackson and S. D. Pollard
21. Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems William D. Brown, Bernard J. Crespi and Jae C. Choe.

Subject Areas: Insects [entomology PSVT7], Arachnids [PSVT6], Animal behaviour [PSVP], Evolution [PSAJ]