News tagged with reproductive behaviour
A new role is hatched for female fruit flies
A team of New York University biologists has uncovered a previously unknown role for a set of cells within the female reproductive tract of fruit flies that affects the functioning of sperm and hence fertility. Their discovery, ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Females choose mates for their personalities, study shows
Adventurous females choose mates with similar personalities, regardless of the male's appearance and other assets, according to research led by the University of Exeter. This is the first study to show that ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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How unrelated wasps succeed by helping others breed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some animals help to rear the young of an unrelated individual without any apparent benefit to themselves?
Aug 12, 2011 |
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'Paranoia' about rivals alters insect mating behavior
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that male fruitflies experience a type of 'paranoia' in the presence of another male, which doubles the length of time they mate with a female, despite the female of the ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Urine sprays during courtship send mixed messages
Walking through urine drives crayfish into an aggressive sexual frenzy. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology suggest that a urine-mediated combination of aggressive and reproductive behavi ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Absent pheromones turn flies into lusty Lotharios
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Professor Joel Levine's team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn't produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga ...
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Prawnography shows captive bred prawns lack lust
A Queensland University of Technology researcher has filmed hours of prawn "sex tapes" to find out why prawns bred in captivity did not go on to breed well.
Mar 04, 2009 |
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