• Mating patterns in heterodichogamous species are generally considered to be disassortative between flowering morphs, but this hypothesis has hitherto not been vigorously tested. Here, mating ...

The mating habits of marine turtles may help to protect them against the effects of climate change. The study shows how the mating patterns of a population of endangered green turtles may be helping ...

A small brown moth, the gold swift moth (Phymatopus hecta), has one of the most complex sex lives in the insect world, new research has found. Despite the insect's unassuming appearance, a new study ...

image: New University of East Anglia research into the mating habits of a critically endangered sea turtle will help conservationists understand more about its mating patterns. The turtle is ...

Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy. Many of us think of our own species as a monogamous one. We select a mate, ...

Birds provide one of the most common ways to encounter nature in cities, but few people wonder how their actions affect birds looking for love. A new study published in the journal Ecology and ...

Mating behaviour is a fundamental aspect of the evolutionary ecology of sexually reproducing species, but one that has been under-researched in parasitic nematodes. We analysed mating behaviour in the ...

Mating patterns in flowering plants are governed by complex interactions between reproductive traits and the ecology of populations (Lloyd, 1980; Holsinger, 1996; Barrett and Pannell, 1999). An ...