Testing for cryptic male mate choice in an insect with high mating failure - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - Post-copulatory sexual selection is an important component of sexual selection. Whilst traditionally studied in terms of sperm competition and cryptic female...

Very excited to see my most recent paper out in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 🥳. We asked whether the high rate of mating failure in a lygaeid seed bug can be explained by male driven cryptic mate choice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Functional and evolutionary synergy of trait components can explain the existence of leaf masquerade in katydids The evolution of complex adaptations often involves synergistic changes in multiple traits that lack standalone function. This study shows that leaf masquerade in katydids evolved through concurrent m...

Leaf? 🍃 Or katydid? 🦗
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@plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n

Sexual selection in wild populations of seed bugs: the role of size in pre-copulatory mate choice by females and males Abstract. Although sexual selection is a well-established part of evolutionary biology, controversies remain about the roles of males and females. For inst

Size does matter for mating success in two species of seed bugs in the wild. #sexualselection #lygaeidae #mating #naturalselection #malematechoice #sicily

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