The aim of this review is to consider the potential benefits that females may gain from mating
more than once in a single reproductive cycle. The relationship between non-genetic and …

An increasing number of studies find females to base their mate choice on several cues.
Why this occurs is debated and many different hypotheses have been proposed. Here I …

Of many determining factors of copulation duration across arthropods, I reviewed copulation
duration variance in mate-guarding worm-like millipedes. The objective wass to calculate …

Of the determining factors of copulation duration across arthropods, I reviewed copulation
duration variance in forest millipedes. The objective was to calculate the variance in …

One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral
and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, Parker realized that sexual …

Genitalia are conspicuously variable, even in closely related taxa that are otherwise
morphologically very similar. Explaining genital diversity is a longstanding problem that is …

Male genitalia show patterns of divergent evolution, and sexual selection is recognised as
being responsible for this taxonomically widespread phenomenon. Much of the empirical …

Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain why male intromittent genitalia
consistently tend to diverge more rapidly than other body traits of the same individuals in a …

There has a been a resurgence of debate on whether the Pleistocene glaciations inhibited
speciation. This study tests a model of Pleistocene speciation, estimating the phylogenetic …

In one of his few major oversights, Darwin failed to appreciate that male–male competition
and sexual selection can continue even after copulation has begun. The postcopulatory …