ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology2014
Sequential male mate choice under sperm competition risk.
Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- A male-biased hypothalamic circuit modulates postmating sleep suppression in mice.Science advances · 2026Article
- Indirect evidence of an early mating advantage in wild cooperatively breeding male banded mongooses.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in an Insect With High Levels of Mating Failure.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- A simple method for repeated in vivo sperm collection from laboratory mice.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Article
- Hearing, touching, and multisensory integration during mate choice.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
- Revealing mechanisms of mating plug function under sexual selection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Female novelty and male status dynamically modulate ejaculate expenditure and seminal fluid proteome over successive matings in red junglefowl.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Males prefer virgin females, even if parasitized, in the terrestrial isopodEcology and evolution · 2018Article
- Odor Communication and Mate Choice in Rodents.Biology · 2018Review
- Sex roles and adult sex ratios: insights from mammalian biology and consequences for primate behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- No evidence for female discrimination against male house mice carrying a selfish genetic element.Current zoology · 2016Article
- Copulatory plugs inhibit the reproductive success of rival males.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2016Article
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- Sperm competition risk drives plasticity in seminal fluid composition.BMC biology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Male eagerness to mate is a central paradigm of sexual selection theory. However, limited sperm supplies mean that male sexual restraint might sometimes be favored under promiscuous mating. Here, we demonstrate dynamic plasticity in male mating effort when females are encountered sequentially under varying sperm competition risk. Rather than showing consistent eagerness to mate, male house mice (
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