The evolution of sex : strategies of males and females /
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Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- The Evolution of Sex
- Preface
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Natural and sexual selection
- 1.3 Proximate and ultimate questions
- 1.4 Sex versus gender
- 1.5 Naturalistic fallacy
- 1.6 Summary
- 2 Not All Reproduction Involves Sex
- 2.1 What is asexual reproduction?
- 2.2 Kinds of asexual reproduction
- 2.2.1 Fission
- 2.2.2 Budding
- 2.2.3 Fragmentation
- 2.2.4 Spores
- 2.2.5 Vegetative
- 2.3 Asexual reproduction by cells in an organism
- 2.4 Sex without reproduction: Gene transfer
- 2.5 Is parthenogenesis a type of asexual reproduction?
- 2.6 Summary
- 3 The Road to Sexual Reproduction
- 3.1 The evolution of eukaryotes
- 3.2 The mitochondrial genome
- 3.3 A brief description of meiosis
- 3.4 The evolution of meiosis
- 3.4.1 The repair of DNA: Meiosis from transformation
- 3.4.2 The improvement of recombinational accuracy: Meiosis from mitosis
- 3.5 Summary
- 4 Two Sexes
- 4.1 The biological difference between males and females
- 4.2 Is gamete size the only way to define the sexes?
- 4.3 Why do gametes become so different?
- 4.3.1 Why different types of gametes?
- 4.3.2 Isogamy to anisogamy
- 4.3.3 Are two sexes the rule?
- 4.3.4 Are two individuals the rule?
- 4.4 Coming together
- 4.5 Summary
- 5 Sexual Reproduction Is Costly
- 5.1 Sex isn't always needed
- 5.2 The cost of meiosis
- 5.3 The cost of producing males
- 5.4 The cost of mating
- 5.4.1 Time
- 5.4.2 Energy
- 5.4.3 Injury and death
- 5.4.4 Disease
- 5.5 Summary
- 6 So Why Sex?
- 6.1 The main problems with asexual reproduction
- 6.2 Sexual reproduction repairs DNA
- 6.3 Sexual reproduction increases variability
- 6.3.1 Vicar of Bray hypothesis
- 6.3.2 Spatial heterogeneity: Tangled bank hypothesis
- 6.3.3 Temporal heterogeneity: Red Queen hypothesis
- 6.4 A return to asexuality
- 6.5 Sympatric asexual and sexual populations
- 6.6 Summary
- 7 Determining an Individual's Biological Sex
- 7.1 Adaptive sex-ratio manipulation
- 7.2 Genetic sex determination
- 7.2.1 XX-XY and ZZ-ZW Systems
- 7.2.2 Haplodiploidy
- 7.3 Environmental sex determination
- 7.3.1 Temperature
- 7.3.2 Location
- 7.3.3 Density
- 7.3.4 Under what conditions should the environment determine sex?
- 7.4 Hermaphrodites
- 7.4.1 Simultaneous hermaphrodites
- 7.4.2 Sequential hermaphrodites
- 7.4.3 When should individuals change sex?
- 7.5 Summary
- 8 Conflict Between the Sexes
- 8.1 What's good for one sex ...
- 8.2 A Genetic primer on sexual conflict
- 8.2.1 Intralocus conflict
- 8.2.2 Interlocus conflict
- 8.3 Prefertilization sexual conflict
- 8.3.1 Nuptial gifts
- 8.3.2 Copulatory plugs
- 8.3.3 Forced copulation
- 8.3.4 Genitalia
- 8.3.6 Mate guarding
- 8.4 Sexual conflict during fertilization
- 8.5 Postfertilization sexual conflict
- 8.6 Conflict outside of breeding
- 8.7 Summary
- 9 Co-operation Between the Sexes
- 9.1 When do we expect co-operation?