Mating Systems and Strategies
Mating Systems and Strategies
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交配系统和策略
DOI：
10.2307/j.ctvs32sqk
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
M. Wade
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文献类型：
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作者：
S. Shuster;M. Wade
这本书提出了第一个统一的概念和统计框架，了解生殖策略的演变。作者利用性选择机会的概念，说明了性选择如何以及为什么是所有进化力量中最强大和最快的力量之一，尽管它只限于一种性别，而在另一种性别中是对立的。他们提供了一个研究交配系统进化的统计框架，并将其应用于替代交配策略的模式。在这样做的过程中，他们提供了一种方法来量化性选择的强度是如何受到生态和生活史过程的影响，这些过程影响着女性的空间和时间聚集以及生殖时间表。直接挑战口头进化模型，试图解释生殖行为没有定量参考进化遗传学，这本书建立了一个更坚实的理论基础领域。作者在现有数据中发现的弱点之一是条件依赖性交配策略的明显普遍性。他们确定了可能有助于替代交配策略进化的因素-他们认为这些策略比通常认为的更常见-并说明了如何衡量选择作用于它们的强度。最后，他们提供的交配系统和策略的协变预测，考虑背后的雄性多型性的潜在发育生物学，并提出未来的研究方向。根据遗传学的信息，这是一种全面而严格的新方法来解释交配系统和策略，这将影响进化生物学的广泛领域。
This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection, the authors illustrate how and why sexual selection, though restricted to one sex and opposed in the other, is one of the strongest and fastest of all evolutionary forces. They offer a statistical framework for studying mating system evolution and apply it to patterns of alternative mating strategies. In doing so, they provide a method for quantifying how the strength of sexual selection is affected by the ecological and life history processes that influence females' spatial and temporal clustering and reproductive schedules. Directly challenging verbal evolutionary models that attempt to explain reproductive behavior without quantitative reference to evolutionary genetics, this book establishes a more solid theoretical foundation for the field. Among the weaknesses the authors find in the existing data is the apparent ubiquity of condition-dependent mating tactics. They identify factors likely to contribute to the evolution of alternative mating strategies--which they argue are more common than generally believed--and illustrate how to measure the strength of selection acting on them. Lastly, they offer predictions on the covariation of mating systems and strategies, consider the underlying developmental biology behind male polyphenism, and propose directions for future research. Informed by genetics, this is a comprehensive and rigorous new approach to explaining mating systems and strategies that will influence a wide swath of evolutionary biology.