Journal of evolutionary biology
Ejaculate investment differs by population, but not wing morph or perceived sperm competition risk, in Pacific field crickets.
Jessie C Tanner, Justa L Heinen-Kay, Lili Hagg, Maxine Lovegrove, Marlene Zuk, Leigh W Simmons
Published: 202510.1093/jeb/voaf139
Abstract
Conspicuous sexual signals are frequently under selection from conflicting sources, such as natural versus sexual selection and pre-copulatory versus post-copulatory sexual selection, which may act in the same or different directions. The Pacific fie…
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