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Lateralized courtship behavior in Ostrinia furnacalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae): influence of gender, sexual experience, and its effects on mating success
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Sohail Abbas and others
Environmental Entomology, nvaf030, https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaf030
Published: 28 April 2025
... University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Lateralization in mating behavior is increasingly recognized as a significant trait in insect species, yet its influence associated with gender, and sexual experience...
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Hunger-dependent female receptivity leads to variable optimal polyandry with equal fitness in a nuptial gift-giving spider
Søren Toft and Maria J Albo
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Evolution
Evolution, qpaf087, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf087
Published: 28 April 2025
...—for further information please contact [email protected]. Abstract Female mating decisions are often plastic, dependent on the environment. In the nuptial gift-giving spider Pisaura mirabilis, the optimal number of matings for females, i.e. the number that maximizes fitness, depends...
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Regulation of meiotic gene expression is functional in the human fungal pathogen Candida glabrata
Natalia Klimova and others
FEMS Yeast Research, Volume 25, 2025, foaf018, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsyr/foaf018
Published: 02 April 2025
.... cerevisiae has been extensively characterized. Haploid cells ‘a’ and alpha secrete pheromones involved in mating of the opposite cell type leading to the formation of a diploid cell. Under harsh conditions, diploid cells undergo meiosis for the formation of four haploid spores. In C. glabrata, cells...
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The virome of the panglobal, wide host-range plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi: phylogeography and evolutionary insights
Leticia Botella and others
Virus Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2025, veaf020, https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaf020
Published: 01 April 2025
... regions with predominantly asexual reproduction harbour fewer viral species. Interestingly, only the partially self-fertile mating type (MAT) A2, associated with the global pandemic, facilitates the spread of viruses across different biogeographic regions, whereas viruses are absent in the self-sterile...
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The influence of relatedness on parental reproductive success and offspring fitness in Eastern chipmunks breeding in fluctuating environments
Juliette Frappier-Lecomte and others
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, voaf037, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf037
Published: 31 March 2025
... and translation rights for reprints. All other permissions can be obtained through our RightsLink service via the Permissions link on the article page on our site—for further information please contact [email protected]. Abstract Mate choice and multiple paternity have been widely studied in natural...
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Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird
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Leilton W Luna and Sara E Lipshutz
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Evolution, qpaf069, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf069
Published: 31 March 2025
... Sex-biased dispersal plays a key role in shaping population dynamics and genetic structure. Two main hypotheses have been proposed for how territoriality and mating competition impact sex-biased dispersal. Female-biased dispersal is expected in monogamous systems with male resource defense, whereas...
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Stable directional sexual selection and repeatable choosiness for song preference in the Pacific field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus
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Mingzi Xu and Marlene Zuk
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Evolution, qpaf055, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf055
Published: 20 March 2025
...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Choosiness, or how picky an individual is in mate choice, is key to both sexual selection and speciation. Yet the amount of phenotypic variation in choosiness and how that variation is partitioned among individuals remain largely unexplored. Here...
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Exposure to sex pheromone from the pupal stage through eclosion has contrasting effects on subsequent mating behaviors of codling moth and oriental fruit moth adults
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Kelsey N Tobin and others
Environmental Entomology, nvaf029, https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaf029
Published: 19 March 2025
... Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Mating disruption is achieved by releasing synthetic pheromones into crop systems to disrupt natural mating behavior of targeted pests. Dispensers of synthetic pheromones are deployed in various crops with the intent...
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Winner–loser effects on life history traits
Lauren M Harrison and others
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 38, Issue 4, April 2025, Pages 530–542, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf021
Published: 13 March 2025
.../licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Ageing of adult males could be accelerated by both high mating/reproductive effort and fighting for mates. Testing the relative importance...
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The evolutionary dynamics of plant mating systems: how bias for studying ‘interesting’ plant reproductive systems could backfire
Elena M Meyer and others
Annals of Botany, mcaf031, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf031
Published: 10 March 2025
...-fertilization and mixed-mating systems have been explored in a variety of studies. However, there has been no recent study which directly addresses our knowledge of mating systems across families, the adequacy of existing data, or the potential for biases. Scope Here we present an updated dataset of mating...
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Perspectives on mating–system evolution: comparing concepts in plants and animals
Josselin Clo and others
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, voaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf009
Published: 28 February 2025
..., distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The study of mating systems, defined as the distribution of who mates with whom and how often in a sexually reproducing population, forms a core pillar of evolution research due to their effects on many...
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Fluctuating selection among years in a wild insect
Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and others
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Evolution
Evolution, qpaf042, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf042
Published: 27 February 2025
... that fluctuations in selection gradients are common but complete reversals in the direction of selection may not be very frequent. genetic variation Gryllus campestris lifespan mating rate polyandry selection gradient Natural Environment Research Council 10.13039/501100000270 Understanding how...
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Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths
Shevy Waner Rips and others
Behavioral Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2025, araf010, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf010
Published: 12 February 2025
..., placed with pheromone dispensers during the experiment (n = 9 trials). (2) Moths from a naïve population (which had never been exposed to mating disruption), studied without exposure to synthetic pheromones dispensers during the experiment (n = 10 trials). (3) Prolonged pheromone...
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Differentiating mechanism from outcome for ancestry-assortative mating in admixed human populations
Dashiell J Massey and others
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Genetics
Genetics, Volume 229, Issue 4, April 2025, iyaf022, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyaf022
Published: 07 February 2025
... to as ancestry-assortative mating. Here, we use forward genomic simulations to link correlations in global ancestry proportion between mates to the underlying mechanistic mate choice process. We consider the impacts of 2 types of mate choice model, using either ancestry-based preferences or social groups...
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An Inversion Polymorphism Under Balancing Selection, Involving Giant Mobile Elements, in an Invasive Fungal Pathogen
Fanny E Hartmann and others
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 42, Issue 2, February 2025, msaf026, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf026
Published: 05 February 2025
[email protected]. Abstract Recombination suppression can evolve in sex or mating-type chromosomes, or in autosomal supergenes, with different haplotypes being maintained by balancing selection. In the invasive chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, a genomic region was suggested to lack...
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Courtship behavior of a secretive forest tinamou, Tinamus major (Great Tinamou)
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Yinger Guo and others
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Ornithology
Ornithology, ukae062, https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukae062
Published: 04 February 2025
... University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract The mating systems of many rainforest birds remain poorly understood, especially those that elude observation in dense forest understories. Here we documented mating behaviors...
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Genetic differentiation in the MAT-proximal region is not sufficient for suppressing recombination in Podospora anserina
Pierre Grognet and others
G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025, jkaf015, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf015
Published: 24 January 2025
... and purging deleterious mutations. Nevertheless, recombination suppression has repeatedly evolved in sex- and mating-type chromosomes. The evolutionary causes for recombination suppression and the proximal mechanisms preventing crossing overs are poorly understood. Several hypotheses have recently been...
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Development of a yeast-based sensor platform for evaluation of ligands recognized by the human free fatty acid 2 receptor
Andrea Clausen Lind and others
FEMS Yeast Research, Volume 25, 2025, foaf001, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsyr/foaf001
Published: 17 January 2025
... on FFA2R. A yeast platform was developed for evaluation of ligands modulating the human free fatty acid 2 receptor activity, in a system devoid of regulatory mechanisms and crosstalk. biosensors GPCR yeast mating pathway ligand screening FFAR2 GPR43 Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial...
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Floral traits underlying mating system differentiation in the wind-pollinated sister species Oryza rufipogon and Oryza nivara
Michael Grillo and Andrés Gutiérrez
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AoB PLANTS
AoB PLANTS, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2025, plae073, https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plae073
Published: 31 December 2024
...Michael Grillo; Andrés Gutiérrez; Camila Souza Angiosperms display a remarkable diversity of reproductive traits and strategies. Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms that have shaped this diversity has been a central goal in studies of plant evolution. In particular, the mating system shift...
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Assessing Racial and Educational Segmentation in Large Marriage Markets
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Edoardo Ciscato
The Review of Economic Studies, rdae115, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdae115
Published: 16 December 2024
... for the patterns of assortative mating observed in marriage markets along different dimensions, such as race and education. However, when the marriage market is segmented into racially and educationally homogeneous clusters, people naturally have more match opportunities with their likes. In this paper, we build...
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