ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026
Multispecies analysis of social effects on same-sex sexual behavior challenges mistaken identity hypotheses in insects.
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- Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Invertebrates: A Systematic Synthesis of Prevalence, Study Type, and Interpretation.Insects · 2026Review
- Evolutionary basis of male same-sex sexual behavior by multiple pheromone switches in Drosophila.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- Rethinking same-sex sexual behavior: From sensory error to social function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The Evolution of Same-sex Sexual Behavior: Using Old Theory to Answer New Questions.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Review
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Same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) in insects has historically been considered a byproduct of sex recognition failure, or "mistaken identity," and consideration of other hypotheses lags behind that of vertebrates where it is often thought to adaptively mitigate aggressive interactions. Comparative analyses to help disentangle the functions of insect SSB are lacking. To address this, we quantified male-male interactions in controlled trials across eight North American field cricket species (
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