Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospec
This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in taxon
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ptic Female Choice in Arthropods Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects
Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods
A mating pair of syrphid flies. Photo Carlos Toscano-Gadea
Alfredo V. Peretti · Anita Aisenberg Editors
Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects
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Editors Alfredo V. Peretti Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal CONICET—Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Cordoba Argentina
Anita Aisenberg Laboratorio de Etología, Ecología y Evolución Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable Montevideo Uruguay
ISBN 978-3-319-17893-6 ISBN 978-3-319-17894-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17894-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015937214 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Cryptic Female Choice: A Tale About a Boy Who Loved Flies More than 30 years ago, I first presented the term “cryptic female choice” as a label for certain behaviors I discovered in female Harpobittacus nigriceps, a species of hangingfly (Mecoptera) (Thornhill 1983). Since then, cryptic female choice (CFC) theory has diversified and expanded, and in the process, so too have the hypotheses, concepts, and topics that comprise the broader field of sexual selection research. Traditionally, the process of sexual selection was restricted to variation among conspecific males in their mating success and associated reproductive success resulting from the males’ trait differences affecting competition for mates or being chosen as a mate by the opposite sex. This is the Darwinian or classical view of sexual selection in evolutionary biology. Parker’s (1970) ideas about sperm competition expanded this classical perspective to include sexual selection favoring male traits that solve the adaptive problem of a mate’s
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