By Mamoru Watanabe

ISBN-10: 4431559434

ISBN-13: 9784431559436

This publication describes approximately 30 years of theoretical, empirical, and experimental paintings on butterfly sperm pageant. It considers the reproductive morphology and sperm utilisation pursuits of women and men, which form the mating strategies of every intercourse. women of so much butterfly species mate a number of instances all through their lives. the explanations are explored, in addition to the various variations men have constructed to avoid destiny mating and fertilisation by means of the sperm of alternative men. specifically, this quantity makes a speciality of the function of apyrene sperm. Eupyrene and apyrene sperm dimorphism is probably a key think about sperm festival, and the research in butterflies promotes realizing of sexual choice throughout animal species with sperm polymorphism. This booklet, describing the evolutionary explanations and results of the sperm festival in butterflies, is a urged learn for college kids of behavioural ecology.

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