monogyny

Monogyny, however, is a mating system by which the males mate only once.

The mating system of monogyny is most common in ants, honeybees, and spiders.

Monogyny increases their chance of paternity when there is a male biased ratio in the population.

There are also circumstances in which monogyny evolves when males do not provide any paternal investment.

The mating plugs transferred to females by the males are believed to be a possible cause of monogyny.

Monogyny The existence of only one functional queen in the nest (opposed to polygyny).

This represents the fitness gain of a female who chooses bigyny over monogyny due to, here, resource holding differences.

Male reproductive success can be determined by their number of fathered offspring, and monogyny is seen quite often in sexually cannibalistic species.

The model of monogyny arises from evolutionary circumstances in which males are restricted to mate with only one female in their lifetime.

The small red ant, Leptothorax acervorum, has colonies that switch from monogyny to polygyny as a result of seasonal fluctuations.

The mechanism of male monogamy (monogyny) in these species is indisputably the most extreme form of non-promiscuous mating effort.

It is important to emphasize the distinctions between monogyny and polyandry, and monogyny and monogamy.

Monogyny in spiders culminates in extreme traits, such as dramatic male self-sacrifice and emasculation of the male by the female during copulation.

Monogyny lowers a male's fitness because they only sire the offspring from the one mateing, unlike other systems which allow males to mate many times producing more successors.

Monogyny is a mating system in which a male can only mate with one female throughout his lifetime but the female may mate with more than one male.

Monogyny is one of several mating systems observed in nature, and it is usually referred to as a male's tendency to mate with only a single female; the female, however, mates with multiple males.

Hence, monogyny is sometimes referred to as male monogamy because the male will only mate with the one female and no one else while the female will mate with all the males.

Studies using isoenzyme systems MDH, a-GPDH, and AMY show the occurrence of monogyny and polygyny associated or not with polyandry, which indicates that the social organization is colony-specific.

Here, Peter was one of several crossing lances in the long battle between Heleno-Roman monogyny and Near Eastern polygyny, an institution that had won many victories in the Mediterranean in late antiquity and the early middle ages, and that was only in this period again beginning a long decline.