Optimal outbreeding and kin selection theories state that the degree of kinship is a fundamental determinant in any mating system. However, the role of kinship in male choice and alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) is poorly known. We assessed th...
Parker, Baker, and Smith provided the first robust theory explaining why anisogamy evolves in parallel in multicellular organisms. Anisogamy sets the stage for the emergence of separate sexes, and for another phenomenon with which Parker is associate...
Aggressive interactions between males are common when victors gain increased mating success but can result in severe injury or death for the defeated. Anastatus japonicus (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) is a solitary egg parasitoid of hemipteran and lepido...
This study develops a deterministic two-sex compartmental model to investigate the population-level effects of continuous sterile-male releases on Anopheles mosquitoes. The model distinguishes aquatic stages, unmated females, fertile-mated females, s...
Reproductive interactions between species could have negative effects on the fitness of the species involved, which can have important ecological and evolutionary consequences, such as population declines (including local extinction) or character div...
The interaction between fig wasps and their host fig trees (Ficus spp.) is a striking example of an obligate pollination mutualism. Male and female fig wasps are confined within their natal patch instead of panmictic; under this circumstance, mating...
Scheduling the charging times of a large fleet of Electric Vehicles (EVs) may be a hard problem due to the physical structure and conditions of the charging station. In this paper, we tackle an EV’s charging scheduling problem derived from a ch...
Nature-inspired algorithms serve as the backbone of modern computing technology, and over the past three decades, the field has grown enormously. Many applications were solved by such algorithms and are replacing the traditional classical optimizatio...
Gains in our knowledge of dispersal and migration in insects have been largely limited to either wing-dimorphic species or current genetic model systems. Species belonging to these categories, however, represent only a tiny fraction of insect biodive...
Many forms of polygyny are observed across different animal groups. In some species, groups of females may remain with a single male for breeding, often referred to as “harem polygyny”. The environment and the amount of habitat available...
In recent years, numerous constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (CMOEAs) have been proposed to tackle constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs). However, most of them still struggle to achieve a good balance among conver...
Community detection (CD) has become an important research direction for data mining in complex networks. Evolutionary algorithm-based (EA-based) approaches, among many other existing community detection methods, are widely used. However, EA-based app...
During the spring–summer seasons between 2019 and 2023, in the localities of Maquehue (La Araucanía Region) and Llifén (Los Ríos Region), we collected 262 virgin Proholopterus chilensis (1 female/2.3 males) specimens emergi...