Chapter 5. Reproduction


Two male stick-insects fighting over a female. (After Sivinski 1978.)
Two male stick-insects fighting over a female. (After Sivinski 1978.)


5. Reproduction

5.1. Bringing the sexes together

5.2. Courtship

5.3. Sexual selection

5.4. Copulation

5.5. Diversity in genitalic morphology

5.6. Sperm storage, fertilization, and sex determination

5.7. Sperm competition

5.8. Oviparity (egg-laying)

5.9. Ovoviviparity and viviparity

5.10. Atypical modes of reproduction

5.10.1. Parthenogenesis, pedogenesis (paedogenesis), and neoteny

5.10.2. Hermaphroditism

5.10.3. Polyembryony

5.10.4. Reproductive effects of endosymbionts

5.11. Physiological control of reproduction

5.11.1. Vitellogenesis and its regulation

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