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ArticleEcology and evolution2024

Is mating failure caused by cryptic male choice in the seed bug

Vicki L Balfour, Mélissa Armand, David M Shuker

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Vicki L BalfourSchool of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-3057
Mélissa ArmandSchool of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3190-5852
David M ShukerSchool of Biology University of St Andrews St Andrews UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2092-6236

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One yet unresolved question in the study of mating system evolution is the occurrence of mating failure, when individuals go through their lives without successfully mating. This includes the failure to produce offspring even following copulation, for instance due to insemination or fertilisation failure. Copulations are costly in a variety of ways, but also a fundamental route to fitness in sexual species, and so we should expect that engaging in copulations that generate no offspring should be strongly selected against. Nonetheless, it has become apparent that mating failure is quite common in nature. Here we consider post-copulatory sexual selection in

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cryptic male choiceLygaeus simulansmate choicemating failurepost‐copulatory sexual selectionsperm competition

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PMID39296735
PMCPMC11410458

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