1. Flexible self-protection as evidence of pain-like states in house crickets
   2026/05/13 by Oscar Manzi, Kate E. Lynch, Daniel M. Allman +2 · 2 voices
   Medicine · Psychology · #Animal communication #Creatures #Cricket #Harm #Mating #Social grooming #Sport Psychology and Performance #Sports Performance and Training #Sports injuries and prevention
2. Sexual antagonism, mating systems, and recombination suppression on sex chromosomes
   2026/05/01 by Ewan O. Flintham, Charles Mullon · 2 voices
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Antagonism #Biology #Chromosomal and Genetic Variations #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities #Genetics #Mating #Mating system #Recombination #Sperm and Testicular Function
3. Changes in age-related sexual selection in a humpback whale population recovering from exploitation
   2026/02/27 by Franca Eichenberger, Emma L. Carroll, Claire Garrigue +5 · 2 voices · 1 citation
   Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Abundance (ecology) #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Marine and coastal plant biology #Marine animal studies overview #Mating #Mating system #Population #Reproductive success #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Sex ratio #Sexual conflict #Sexual selection
4. How relaxed preferences facilitate the evolution of novel animal signals
   2025/11/13 by Gabrielle T. Welsh, James H Gallagher, Mary Westwood +4 · 2 voices
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Eavesdropping #Field (mathematics) #Mating #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Phonotactics #Preference #Range (aeronautics) #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Sexual selection
5. Unravelling Evolutionary Dynamics of Female Sexual Cannibalism and Male Reproductive Strategies in Spiders
   2025/09/17 by Simona Kralj‐Fišer, Franco Cargnelutti, Daiqin Li +1 · 1 voice · 1 citation
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Antagonistic Coevolution #Cannibalism #Female sperm storage #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Mating #Mating system #Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research #Sexual conflict #Sexual selection #Spermatophore
6. Ecology and sexual conflict drive the macroevolutionary dynamics of female-limited color polymorphisms in damselflies
   2025/09/04 by Beatriz Willink, Tammy Ai Tian Ho, Erik Svensson · 1 voice · 3 citations
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Damselfly #Demography #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Mating #Mimicry #Odonata #Plant and animal studies #Population #Sexual conflict #Sexual dimorphism #Sexual selection #Zoology
7. Noise pollution and artificial light at night alter selection pressures on sexual signals in an urban adapter
   2025/07/15 by Andrew D. Cronin, Rotem Zilber, Paul Jerem +1 · 2 voices
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Acoustics #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Biology #Ecology #Habitat #Light pollution #Marine animal studies overview #Mate choice #Mating #Noise (video) #Noise pollution #Pollution #Predation #Sexual selection #Zoology
8. High Juvenile Mortality Overwhelms Benefits of Mating Potential for Reproductive Fitness
   2024/02/17 by Amy Waananen, Lea K. Richardson, Riley D. Thoen +6 · 2 citations
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Biology #Demography #Ecology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Insect and Pesticide Research #Juvenile #Mating #Plant and animal studies #Population #Reproductive success #Zoology
9. Female chorus frogs delay mate choice under suboptimal environmental conditions
   2024/01/24 by Mysia Dye, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon · 3 citations
   Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Biology #Context (archaeology) #Demography #Ecology #Mate choice #Mating #Population #Preference #Reproductive isolation #Statistics #Sympatric speciation #Sympatry #Zoology
10. Fire effects on plant reproductive fitness vary among individuals, reflecting pollination‐dependent mechanisms
    2023/03/21 by Lea K. Richardson, Jared Beck, Jared J. Beck +4 · 3 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Biology #Demography #Ecology #Hand-pollination #Insect-Plant Interactions and Control #Mating #Mating system #Perennial plant #Plant Parasitism and Resistance #Plant and animal studies #Pollen #Pollination #Pollinator #Population #Reproductive success
11. Male and Female Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Attraction to Sound and Its Relevance to Potential Applications in Vector Surveillance
    2021/10/06 by Cassandra H Steele, Emily G McDermott · 6 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · #Acoustics #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Attraction #Biology #Ecology #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Intraspecific competition #Loudness #Mating #Mosquito-borne diseases and control #Sound (geography) #Sound pressure #Swarming (honey bee) #Wing #Zoology
12. Ecology and social behaviour of the Mongolian gerbil: a generalised review
    2021/09/20 by V. S. Gromov, Vladimir S. Gromov · 6 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · Psychology · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Anthropology #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Biology #Ecology #Facultative #Gerbil #Mating #Mating system #Psychology #Social group #Social hierarchy #Social psychology #Sociology #Territoriality #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Zoology
13. Neural correlates of mating system diversity: oxytocin and vasopressin receptor distributions in monogamous and non-monogamous Eulemur
    2021/02/12 by Nicholas M. Grebe, Annika Sharma, Sara M. Freeman +4 · 1 citation
    Psychology · Neuroscience · Medicine · #Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Attachment and Relationship Dynamics #Lemur #Biology #Evolutionary biology #Primate #Mating #Pair bond #Vasopressin #Zoology #Sociality #Vasopressin receptor #Mating system #Rodent #Neuroscience #Bank vole #Ecology #Receptor #Genetics #Medicine #Population
14. Neural and Hormonal Control of Sexual Behavior
    2020/08/26 by Kimberly J. Jennings, Kimberly J Jennings, Luis de Lecea +1 · 25 citations
    Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Amygdala #Biological neural network #Biology #Developmental psychology #Endocrinology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Hormone #Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones #Internal medicine #Mating #Medicine #Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior #Neuroscience #Psychology #Sexual behavior #Sexual differentiation #Sexual dimorphism
15. Breeding systems and genetic diversity in tropical carpenter ant colonies: different strategies for similar outcomes in Brazilian Cerrado savanna
    2020/03/14 by Marianne Azevedo‐Silva, Gustavo Maruyama Mori, Carolina da Silva Carvalho +3 · 1 citation
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Plant and animal studies #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Polygyny #Biology #Eusociality #Mating system #Mating #Ecology #Facultative #Zoology #Population #Genetic diversity #Swarming (honey bee) #Hymenoptera #Evolutionary biology #Demography
16. Social interactions do not drive territory aggregation in a grassland songbird
    2019/11/12 by Sarah Winnicki, Steffanie Munguía, Emily J. Williams +1 · 1 citation
    Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Avian ecology and behavior #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Ecology #Habitat #Songbird #Population #Geography #Nest (protein structural motif) #Sparrow #Territoriality #Mating #Predation #Biology #Demography
17. A mixed model of the evolution of polygyny and sexual size dimorphism in mammals
    2019/10/30 by Marcelo H. Cassini · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Plant and animal studies #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Polygyny #Sexual selection #Sexual dimorphism #Mating system #Biology #Mating #Sexual conflict #Zoology #Mate choice #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Ecology #Natural selection #Operational sex ratio #Evolutionary biology #Demography #Population
18. Pair-bonding influences affective state in a monogamous fish species
    2019/06/12 by Chloé Laubu, Philippe Louâpre, François‐Xavier Dechaume‐Moncharmont · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Pair bond #Affect (linguistics) #Psychology #Paternal care #Reproductive success #Biology #Mate choice #Ecology #Developmental psychology #Social psychology #Zoology #Demography #Mating #Communication #Population #Genetics
19. Are Male Orangutans a Threat to Infants? Evidence of Mother–Offspring Counterstrategies to Infanticide in Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)
    2019/06/01 by Amy M. Scott, Amy Scott, Cheryl D. Knott +1 · 1 citation
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Psychology · #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Animal ecology #Biology #Developmental psychology #Genetics #Mating #Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior #Offspring #Pongo pygmaeus #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Proceptive phase #Psychology #Zoology
20. Food for Sex in Bats Revealed as Producer Males Reproduce with Scrounging Females
    2019/05/23 by Lee Harten, Yosef Prat, Shachar Ben Cohen +2 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Affect (linguistics) #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Biology #Communication #Demography #Ecology #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Foraging #Inclusive fitness #Kin selection #Mating #Mating system #Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior #Population #Psychology #Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) #Reproductive success #Social psychology #Zoology
21. Triturus newts
    2019/02/01 by Ben Wielstra · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Biology #Caudata #Courtship #Courtship display #Ecology #Mating #Parapatric speciation #Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies #Salamandridae #Spermatophore #Triturus #Zoology
22. The neural mechanisms and circuitry of the pair bond
    2018/10/09 by Hasse Walum, Larry J. Young · 2 citations
    Neuroscience · Psychology · #Art #Attachment and Relationship Dynamics #Biological neural network #Biology #Cognitive science #Ecology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Mating #Neural system #Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior #Neuroscience #Pair bond #Psychology #Viewpoints
23. Attractiveness of male Zebra Finches is not affected by exposure to an environmental stressor, dietary mercury
    2018/01/03 by Virginia Greene, Virginia W. Greene, John P. Swaddle +2 · 2 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Psychology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior #Attraction #Attractiveness #Avian ecology and behavior #Biology #Biomonitoring #Courtship #Ecology #MERCURY EXPOSURE #Mate choice #Mating #Mercury (programming language) #Offspring #Plumage #Pregnancy #Psychology #Taeniopygia #Zebra finch #Zoology
24. Multiple paternity: A compensation mechanism of the Chinese alligator for inbreeding
    2017/10/26 by Huan Wang, Peng Yan, Shengzhou Zhang +6 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Allele #Alligator #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Captive breeding #Demography #Ecology #Effective population size #Endangered species #Evolutionary biology #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Genetic diversity #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetic variation #Genetics #Inbreeding #Mating #Mating system #Microsatellite #Population #Zoology
25. Odour-based discrimination of similarity at the major histocompatibility complex in birds
    2017/01/11 by Sarah Leclaire, Maria Strandh, Jérôme Mardon +2 · 18 citations
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · Immunology and Microbiology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Bird parasitology and diseases #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetics #MHC class I #Major histocompatibility complex #Mate choice #Mating #Mating preferences #Repertoire #Similarity (geometry) #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Zoology
26. Assortative mating by multiple skin color traits in a seabird with cryptic sexual dichromatism
    2016/05/23 by Isabel López Rull, Leticia Nicolás, Nadia Neri-Vera +3 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Assortative mating #Avian ecology and behavior #Biology #Botany #Endocrinology #Mating #Monochromatic color #Plant and animal studies #Plumage #Sexual dimorphism #Sexual selection #Testosterone (patch) #Zoology
27. Female Zebra Finches Smell Their Eggs
    2016/05/18 by Sarah Golüke, Sebastian Dörrenberg, E. Tobias Krause +1 · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Plant and animal studies #Avian ecology and behavior #Taeniopygia #Biology #Zebra finch #Zoology #Brood parasite #Mate choice #Hatching #Intraspecific competition #Olfaction #Offspring #Animal sexual behaviour #Nest (protein structural motif) #Ecology #Parasitism #Host (biology) #Mating #Population #Demography
28. Evidence that St. Helena island is an important multi-use habitat for whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, with the first description of putative mating in this species
    2016/03/21 by Elizabeth Clingham, Judith Brown, Leeann Henry +2 · 1 citation
    Environmental Science · #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Whale #Bay #Habitat #Mating #Fishery #Juvenile #Geography #Biology #Shore #Ecology #Zoology #Archaeology
29. Female preference for multi-modal courtship: multiple signals are important for male mating success in peacock spiders
    2015/12/03 by Madeline Girard, Damian O. Elias, Michael M. Kasumovic · 1 citation
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · Psychology · Mathematics · Chemistry · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Courtship #Mating #Preference #Modal #Mate choice #Zoology #Biology #Communication #Psychology #Mathematics #Chemistry #Statistics
30. Structural genomic changes underlie alternative reproductive strategies in the ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
    2015/11/16 by Sangeet Lamichhaney, Guangyi Fan, Fredrik Widemo +18 · 3 citations
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Genetic diversity and population structure #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies #Biology #Plumage #Evolutionary biology #Mating #Mating system #Allele #Zoology #Genetics #Gene

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