Female alternative reproductive tactics: diversity and drivers

Daiping Wang, Jessica Abbott, Franziska A. Brenninger, Kora Klein, Angela Nava-Bolaños, Lengxob Yong, Xiang Yi Li Richter

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It is often argued that anisogamy causes alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) to be more common in males than females. We challenge this view by pointing out logical flaws in the argument. We then review recent work on the diversity of female ARTs, listing several understudied types such as solitary versus communal breeding and facultative parthenogenesis. We highlight an important difference between male and female ARTs that caused female ARTs to be overlooked: male ARTs tend to focus on successful fertilization, whereas female ARTs occur at many stages of reproduction and often form complex networks of decision points. We propose to study correlated female ARTs as a whole to better understand their drivers and eco-evolutionary dynamics.

Originalspråkengelska
Sidor (från-till)937-946
Antal sidor10
TidskriftTrends in Ecology and Evolution
Volym39
Nummer10
DOI
StatusPublished - 2024 okt.

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

  • Etologi
  • Evolutionsbiologi
  • Zoologi

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