• Cryptic female choice is a form of mate choice which occurs both in pre and post copulatory circumstances when females in certain species use physical...
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    Consequently, females can store sperm internally for as long as five years, or possibly longer. This phenomenon is known as cryptic female choice, as the physiological...
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    in which females may preferentially utilize sperm from some males over those of others, called female sperm preference or cryptic female choice (e.g. many...
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    microorganisms. Females may spawn several times in this fashion from a full seminal receptacle. I. paradoxus has been used in the study of cryptic female choice due...
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    and cryptic female choice. Sperm competition occurs when the sperm of more than one male competes to fertilize the egg of the female. Cryptic female choice...
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    S2CID 905005. Birkhead, T. R. (1998). "Cryptic Female Choice: Criteria for Establishing Female Sperm Choice". Evolution. 52 (4): 1212–1218. doi:10.1111/j...
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    and cryptic female choice. Sperm competition occurs where the sperm of more than one male competes to fertilise the egg of the female. Cryptic female choice...
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    any male phenotype that limits female cryptic choice will induce a cost on the female. Often, cryptic female choice occurs in polyandrous or polygamous...
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    hypotheses as to what impacts female genital evolution: lock-and-key (genitals must fit together), cryptic female choice (females affect whether males can...
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    counter-strategies that involve cryptic female choice and sexually selected infanticide. The hypothesis of sexually selected infanticide is a female counterstrategy that...
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  • sexual selection can continue after copulation, the so called 'cryptic female choice', so named because it takes place within the body and cannot be...
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    scientists have investigated sperm competition, sexual size dimorphism, cryptic female choice, the role of pheromones in mating behaviour, and the function and...
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    female can only choose the time in which she releases her eggs, but not when they are fertilized. This is similar, in ways, to cryptic female choice....
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    competition to attain "good genes", cryptic female choice, increased genetic quality, and genetic diversity. Females spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) store more...
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  • pre or post copulatory. In species where cryptic female choice is one of the main sources of competition females are able to choose sperm from among various...
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    pheromone secretion, nuptial gifts, and cryptic female choice. When males are attempting to attract females, other nearby males may approach in an attempt...
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    Press p92 ISBN 0-19-850392-X Eberhard, W.G. 1996. Female control: sexual selection by cryptic female choice. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press...
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    driven by intersexual conflict, lock-and-key genital evolution, and cryptic female choice, especially given the high level of variation within species as...
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    mates (Oceana). Researchers have hypothesized that there may be cryptic female choice or sperm competition (Morse et al., 2018). In the paper, Mating...
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    Bradford; McClafferty, Julie (July 1, 2022). "Male traits under cryptic female choice in the spotted cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". academic...
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    near the eyespot that seems to increase the females likelihood of mating with a specific peacock. Mate choice is a major component of sexual selection,...
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    Sixth Edition. 429–519. Eberhard, William 1996 Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice ISBN 0-691-01084-6 Freeman, Scott; Herron, Jon...
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  • Marsh-Rollo, Susan E. (2016). "Ovarian fluid allows directional cryptic female choice despite external fertilization". Nature Communications. 7: 12452...
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    use one or the other. Females have little control when it comes to cryptic female choice. Female Drosophila through cryptic choice, one of several post-copulatory...
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    a female's inclination to mate with multiple males and her ability to store sperm allows for sperm competition and suggests cryptic female choice. However...
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    mate. MHC-mediated mate choice may occur after copulation, at the gametic level, through sperm competition or female cryptic choice. The Atlantic salmon...
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  • hdl:10072/384437. PMID 30811910. Eberhard, W. G. 1996. Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey...
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    Another explanation is "cryptic female choice". Since the correct alignment of male and female structures is difficult, female genitalia may have evolved...
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    system, an example of cryptic female choice. Although current results are inconclusive regarding whether or not females are cryptically selecting for a better...
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    link] Alex Córdoba-Aguilar (2006). "Sperm ejection as a possible cryptic female choice mechanism in Odonata (Insecta)". Physiological Entomology. Online...
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