High fishing intensity reduces females' sperm reserve and brood fecundity in a eubrachyuran crab subject to sex-and size-biased harvest

LM Pardo, MP Riveros, JP Fuentes… - ICES Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Size-selective male fisheries may result in sperm limitation whereby the number of sperm is
insufficient to fertilize all oöcytes produced by females. In eubrachyuran crabs, females have …

Male mate choice, male quality, and the potential for sexual selection on female traits under polygyny

CL Fitzpatrick, MR Servedio - Evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Observations of male mate choice are increasingly common, even in species with traditional
sex roles. In addition, female traits that bear the hallmarks of secondary sexual characters …

Statistical power to detect multiple paternity in populations of highly fertile species: how many females and how many offspring should be sampled?

D Veliz, P Duchesne, N Rojas-Hernandez… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2017 - Springer
One of the central issues of behavioral ecology focuses on the probability of detecting
multiple paternity in a scenario of polygamy. The main problem for this kind of analysis …

Multiple paternity in the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) assessed with microsatellite markers

JM Hill, EP Williams, B Masters, AR Place - Journal of Shellfish Research, 2017 - BioOne
In the blue crab Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun, 1896), double ejaculations have been
observed; however, it is not known if these multiple inseminations are the products of …

Morphology of seminal receptacle of the harvested golden crab Chaceon chilensis and its implication in the fertilization process

LM Pardo, C Ceroni, MP Riveros, B Ernst… - Invertebrate …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The external and internal architecture of crab seminal receptacles are closely associated
with mating behavior, sperm transfer, and storage patterns, and ultimately reproductive …