Female alternative reproductive tactics: diversity and drivers.

Wang, Daiping; Abbott, Jessica; Brenninger, Franziska A; Klein, Kora; Nava-Balaños, Angela; Yong, Lengxob; Richter, Xiang-Yi Li (2024). Female alternative reproductive tactics: diversity and drivers. Trends in ecology & evolution, 39(10), pp. 937-946. Elsevier Current Trends 10.1016/j.tree.2024.06.002

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It is often argued that anisogamy causes alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) to be more common in males than females. We challenge this view by pointing out logical flaws in the argument. We then review recent work on the diversity of female ARTs, listing several understudied types such as solitary versus communal breeding and facultative parthenogenesis. We highlight an important difference between male and female ARTs that caused female ARTs to be overlooked: male ARTs tend to focus on successful fertilization, whereas female ARTs occur at many stages of reproduction and often form complex networks of decision points. We propose to study correlated female ARTs as a whole to better understand their drivers and eco-evolutionary dynamics.

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