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The role of sexual selection in the evolution of insect mating systems has recently come under close scrutiny. Intrasexual selection, due to competition for mates among members of a single sex, has been demonstrated in a variety of insects (cf. Blum and Blum 1979). Several morphological, physiological and behavioral traits have been shown to have arisen by this process. Wilson (1975) cites the weaponry of hercules beetles used in combat between males courting a single female. Several strategies have evolved to enhance the likelihood that a male’s sperm will fertilize his mate’s eggs: a passive phase of courtship (Parker 1970), secretions of the male that lower receptivity of recently-mated females (Craig 1967) and sperm precedence/displacement systems (Walker 1980), among others.
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Wasserman, S.S. (1986). Behavioral Analysis of Male-Induced Interstrain Differences in Realized Fecundity in Callosobruchus maculatus . In: Huettel, M.D. (eds) Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3487-1_14
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