Full Description
Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 55 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Playing to the crowd: using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games, Social breeding and its challenges: A case study on village weaverbirds, Inbreeding depression and social interactions, Sleeping beauties? Copulatory quiescence in arachnid females, and more.
Contents
Preface
Jeffrey Podos and Susan Healy
1. Playing to the crowd: Using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games
Amanda Bretman, Tracey Chapman, James Rouse and Stuart Wigby
2. A behavioral ecology perspective on inbreeding and inbreeding depression
Jon Richardson and Per T. Smiseth
3. Waking beauties: Mating quiescence in arachnid females
Franco Cargnelutti, Fedra Bollatti, Matías A. Izquierdo, Débora Abregú, Mariela Oviedo-Diego, David Vrech, Paola Olivero, Lucía Calbacho-Rosa, Catalina Simian, Rocío Palen-Pietri, Camilo Mattoni and Alfredo V. Peretti
