Mating system

Patris, B. and Baudoin, C. (2000) A comparative study of parental care between two rodent species implications for the mating system of the mound-building mouse Mus spicilegus. Behav.Processes 51,35-43. 

Dixson, A. F. 1996. Evolutionary perspectives on primate mating systems and behavior. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci, in press. 

Harvey, P. H. and Harcourt, A. H. (1984). Sperm competition, testis size, and breeding systems in primates. In Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems (ed. R. L. Smith), pp. 589—600. London Academic Press. 

Sillen-Tullberg, B. and Mailer, A. P. (1993). The relationship between concealed ovulation and mating systems in anthropoid primates a phylogenetic analysis. American Naturalist 141, 1-25. 

As in other sensoiy modalities, sex differences of anatomical structures such as scent glands, chemical composition of secretions, and behaviors associated with scent communication are more pronounced in species with polygamous mating systems than those with monogamy. 

Cronin, E. W., Jr. and Sherman, P. W. (1976). A resource-based mating system the orange rumped honeyguide. LivingBird 15,5-32. 

Laboratory observations remain essential because they can delineate the timing of mate finding and mating in relation to other activities, and observations can provide important information about interactions between the sexes and the role of sex pheromones. The identification of sex pheromones also requires standard laboratory behavioral assays. We urge students of cockroach behavior and chemical ecology to develop more realistic behavioral assays that will facilitate the identification of sex pheromones as well as a better understanding of their role in cockroach mating systems. 

Weller, S. J., Jacobsen, N. L. and Conner, W. E. (2000a). The evolution of chemical defences and mating systems in tiger moths (Lepidoptera Arctiidae). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 68 557-578. 

Evolution of mate-signaling in moths phylogenetic consideration and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis. In Evolution of Insect Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids, eds. J. C. Choe and B. J. Crespi, pp. 240-256. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Thornhill, R. and Alcock, J. (1983). The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. 

Wagner, D. L. and Rosovsky, J. (1991). Mating systems in primitive Lepidoptera, with emphasis on the reproductive behaviour of Korscheltellus gracilis (Hepialidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 102 227-303. 

Gwynne D. T. and Morris G. K. (1983) Orthopteran Mating System. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 

Contact pheromones in the mating systems of longhorned beetles... 

Tucker, C. L., Harding, J., Quantitative Studies on Mating Systems. 

Weil, J., Allard, R. W., The Mating System and Genetic Variability in... 

The appropriately prepared sample can then be extracted by a number of techniques. The main points to consider are to allow adequate time of exposure of the solvent system in the sample matrix and to limit sample handling steps, that is, avoid filtration steps by using soxhlet (sample in a glass thimble), extraction columns (sample matrix eluted after soaking in soxhlet), or semiauto mated systems (pressurized liquid extractors). 

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