The female perspective on reproductive strategies remains one of the most active areas of
debate in biology. Even though a single mating is often sufficient to satisfy the fertilization …

Multiple paternity is extremely common in natural populations of almost all reptiles studied to
date, suggesting that pay-offs from polyandrous mating systems are important in these …

Why females would mate with multiple partners and have multiple fathers for clutches or
litters is a long-standing enigma. There is a broad dichotomy in hypotheses ranging from …

Mating systems are a central component in the evolution of animal life histories and in
conservation genetics. The patterns of male reproductive skew and of paternal shares in …

For organisms with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), skewed offspring sex
ratios are common. However, climate warming poses the unique threat of producing extreme …

As evidenced by the articles in this volume, a recent increase in interest in the mating
systems of poikilothermic vertebrates has focused primarily on fishes, a few amphibians, and …

When females receive no direct benefits from multiple matings, concurrent multiple paternity
is often explained by indirect genetic benefits to offspring. To examine such possibilities, we …

Despite the importance of maternal effects in evolution, and knowledge of links among nest
site choice, timing of nesting, offspring sex, and reproductive success in animals with …

Multiple paternity is the occurrence within a single clutch of offspring fathered by more than
one male. This pattern may be an an adaptive feature of the mating system of turtles. Mating …

We measured plasma androgen (combined testosterone and 5α-dihydrotestosterone)(A)
and corticosterone (B) in the promiscuous green turtle (Chelonia mydas) during courtship in …