Chapter 11 Opener: The mating systems of many species involve defense of food resources

11.1 The monogamous honey bee drone dies after mating

11.2 Mate assistance monogamy in a seahorse

11.3 A monogamous mate-guarding shrimp

11.4 Dual mate-enforced monogamy

11.5 Female burying beetles combat polygyny

11.6 A monogamous pair of cleaner wrasses

11.7 An exceptionally paternal rodent

11.8 Male care of offspring affects fitness in the California mouse

11.9 Durable pair bonds between males and females in prosimian primates

11.10 Mate-guarding monogamy in the rock-haunting possum

11.11 Paternal male starlings keep their clutches warmer by helping mates incubate their eggs

11.12 Paternal care boosts reproductive success in the monogamous spotless starling

Box 11.1 Genetic fingerprinting and behavioral ecology

11.13 Males of the red phalarope may have to share a mate with other males

11.14 Female spotted sandpipers fight over males

11.15 Polyandry has fitness costs

11.16 Polyandry has fitness benefits

11.17 A father’s mating success can be transmitted to his sons

11.18 Extra-pair matings can boost the immune responses of offspring in the bluethroat

11.19 Polyandry boosts female reproductive success in a pseudoscorpion

11.20 Egg fertilizations in female crickets that have mated with a sibling and a nonrelative (Part 1)

11.20 Egg fertilizations in female crickets that have mated with a sibling and a nonrelative (Part 2)

11.21 Polyandry can yield material benefits

11.22 Reproductive output is higher in polyandrous pierid butterfly species

11.23 Adjustment of copulation frequency by polyandrous female dunnocks

11.24 Female defense polygyny in the greater spear-nosed bat

11.25 Female defense polygyny in a marine amphipod

11.26 Annual reproductive success of male and female marmots

11.27 Resource defense polygyny in an Australian antlered fly

11.28 Resource defense polygyny in an African cichlid fish

11.29 A test of the female distribution theory of mating systems

11.30 Does polygyny reduce female fitness?

11.31 Scramble competition polygyny selects for spatial learning ability

11.32 An explosive breeding assemblage

11.33 A lek-polygynous mammal: the hammer-headed bat

11.34 Hotspots or hotshots? (Part 1)

11.34 Hotspots or hotshots? (Part 2)

11.35 A test of the hotspot hypothesis (Part 1)

11.35 A test of the hotspot hypothesis (Part 2)

11.36 Female density is not correlated with lek formation in an African antelope

11.37 Female Uganda kob do not aggregate disproportionately at leks with many males (Part 1)

11.37 Female Uganda kob do not aggregate disproportionately at leks with many males (Part 2)

11.38 Lek size and copulation rate in the ruff (Part 1)

11.38 Lek size and copulation rate in the ruff (Part 2)

11.39 The ratios of females to signaling males of the Mediterranean fruit fly in two “leks” (Part 1)

11.39 The ratios of females to signaling males of the Mediterranean fruit fly in two “leks” (Part 2)