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• Title:The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals / edited by Janet L. Leonard, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Leonard, Janet L. (Janet Louise), 1953-
  Córdoba-Aguilar, Alex.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QL876 .E96 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Generative organs--Evolution.
  Sexual selection in animals.
  
• Medical Subjects: Genitalia.
  Animal Structures.
  Evolution.
  Mating Preference, Animal.
  
• Description:ix, 537 p. : ill ; 26 cm.
  
• Summary:Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of "primary" sexual characters. A third approach to the evolution of reproductive interactions after copulation or insemination has been to consider the process one of sexual conflict. That is, the reproductive processes of a species may reflect, as does the mating system, evolution acting on males and on females, but in different directions. This volume explores a variety of primary sexual characters and selective pressures that have shaped them, from natural selection for offspring survival to species-isolating mechanisms, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sexual arms races.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195325553 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0195325559 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction : celebrating and understanding reproductive diversity / Janet L. Leonard
  The distinction between primary and secondary sexual characters / Michael T. Ghiselin
  The evolution of sexes, gametes, and sexual systems : natural vs. sexual selection / Janet L. Leonard
  Rapid divergent evolution of genitalia : theory and data updated / William G. Eberhard
  Killing time : a mechanism of sexual conflict and sexual selection / Patricia Adair Gowaty and Stephen P. Hubbell
  Gamete release and spawning behavior in broadcast spawning marine invertebrates / Katie E. Lotterhos and Don R. Levitan
  Prosobranchs with internal fertilization / Alan N. Hodgson
  Opisthobranchs / Ángel Valdés, Terrence M. Gosliner, and Michael T. Ghiselin
  Basommatophoran gastropods / Philippe Jarne ... [et al.]
  Stylommatophoran gastropods / Bruno Baur
  An ancient indirect sex model : single and mixed patterns in the evolution of scorpion genitalia / Alfredo V. Peretti
  Spider genitalia : precise maneuvers with a numb structure in a complex lock / William G. Eberhard and Bernhard A. Huber
  Genitalic evolution in Opiliones / Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez ... [et al.]
  The evolution of male and female internal reproductive organs in insects / Nina Wedell and David J. Hosken
  Selective forces propelling genitalic evolution in Odonata / Adolfo Cordero Rivera and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar
  Postcopulatory sexual selection in the Coleoptera : mechanisms and consequences / Paul Eady
  Fertilization mode, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice shape primary sexual characters in fish / Michael Taborsky and Francis C. Neat
  Evolution of primary sexual characters in amphibians / Lynne D. Houck and Paul A. Verrell
  Evolution of primary sexual characters in reptiles / Tobias Uller, Devi Stuart-Fox, and Mats Olsson
  Sexual conflict and the intromittent organs of male birds / Robert Montgomerie
  Genitalic traits of mammals : systematics and variation / Edward H. Miller
  The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals : a summary / Alex Córdoba-Aguilar.