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This project investigates sexual conflict in the Springbok mantis, focusing on male coercion and female injury during mating. It employs field studies, laboratory experiments, and modeling to understand the evolutionary implications of these behaviors and their impact on population dynamics.
Sexual cannibalism, which occurs when a female eats her mate before, during or after mating, is a classic example of sexual conflict since females gain a meal but males lose their life.
The risk of premature death is expected to select for cautious mating tactics that help males to secure matings and avoid being eaten.
Although such tactics are common in cannibalistic species, males of the Springbok mantis, Miomantis caffra, take a far more aggressive approach, wrestling females to coerce them t…
UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG
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Finland, Jyvaskyla
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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