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Reference number: 74
On sex and arthropods | Date: 23rd August AM | | Niko Tinbergen, one of our heroes, defined ethology in an interview as a “curious ragbag” (quoted by S. Kingsland, Science, 8 July 2005). In this session we want to illustrate the “mixed assortment of scientific problems” (op. cit.) embraced by ethology by focusing on the sexual behaviour of arthropods. Here, we will discuss studies encompassing the four Tinbergen’s “whys” as illustrated by the sexual behaviour of cicadas, crayfishes, flies, true bugs, scorpionflies and water striders. We will talk about the physiology and genetics of sexual behaviour, the different types of sexual selection, as well as the role sexual behaviour in speciation. We hope that researchers of any aspect of sexual behaviour will find something of interest in this session, and will have at least a glimpse of the fundamental importance of a multidisciplinary approach for the scientific understanding of behaviour. | | Keywords: mating, sexual selection, sex and family, Arthropoda, behaviour biology |
| | Organizer(s): | | CR Cordero | Instituto de Ecologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| | A Sih | University of California at Davis |
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| | Oral presentations: | | | 10.00-10.20 | Cuatianquiz C, Cordero C - Material benefits of double mating for female Stenomacra marginella (Heteroptera, Largidae) are lost when the second mate is not virgin | | | 10.20-10.40 | Sueur J - Love and fight for love with sound: A cicada story | | | 10.40-11.00 | Kock D, Sauer KP - Sperm competition in the scorpionfly Panorpa germanica (Mecoptera, Panorpidae) | | | 11.00-11.20 | Engels S, Sauer KP - Craving for food is adaptive: Resource dependent male mating effort in the scorpionfly P. vulgaris | | | - Coffee break - | | 11.40-12.00 | Sziranyi A, Kiss B, Samu F, Harand W - The function of long copulation in the wolf spider Pardosa agrestis (Araneae, Lycosidae) investigated in a controlled copulation duration experiment | | | 12.00-12.20 | Wherry T, Elwood RWE - Reproductive success and egg-sac guarding behaviour in the orb-weaving spider, Zygiella x-notata | | | 12.20-12.40 | Sih A, Watters V - Behavioural syndromes and mating success – do social skills and the composition of the social group matter? | |
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