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Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae)
Bibliography: pages 128-138.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17555 Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae) Cooper, Mark Ian Telford, Steven Nicolson, Sue W Zoology millipedes sexual dimorphism Bibliography: pages 128-138. This study focuses on the mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae). The main objectives were to investigate the two most common mechanisms of sexual selection, sperm competition and cryptic female choice. The approach was to (1) quantify sexual dimorphism and find the selection pressures operating on the sexes, (2) determine the functional significance of male and female genitalia, (3) understand why there should be a conflict of sexual interests in prolonged copulations, and (4) resolve the mechanisms of sperm competition and cryptic female choice by comparing male mating strategies and sperm precedence to female mating strategies and sperm usage. All hypotheses tested in this thesis are centered on whether there is a conflict of interests between the sexes. 2016-03-07T06:56:14Z 2016-03-07T06:56:14Z 1998 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17555 eng application/pdf Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Zoology millipedes sexual dimorphism Cooper, Mark Ian Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae) |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae) |
| title_full | Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae) |
| title_fullStr | Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae) |
| title_short | Mating dynamics of South African forest millipedes : Centrobolus (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae) |
| title_sort | mating dynamics of south african forest millipedes centrobolus diplopoda pachybolidae |
| topic | Zoology millipedes sexual dimorphism |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17555 |
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