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Further Reading
Birkhead TR and Møller AP (eds) (1998) Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection. Academic Press: San Diego.
Birkhead T (2000) Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition. Harvard University Press: Cambridge.
Boulton RA and Shuker DM (2013) Polyandry. Current Biology 23 (24): R1080–R1081.
Holman L and Kokko H (2013) The consequences of polyandry for population viability, extinction risk and conservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences 368 (1613): 20120053.
Kvarnemo C and Simmons LW (2013) Polyandry as a mediator of sexual selection before and after mating. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences 368 (1613): 20120042.
McDonald GC and Pizzari T (2018) Structure of sexual networks determines the operation of sexual selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (1): E53–E61.
Parker GA and Birkhead TR (2013) Polyandry: the history of a revolution. Philosophilcal Transactions of the Royal Society B 368 (1613): 20120335.
Shuker DM and Simmons LW (eds) (2014) The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems. Oxford University Press: Oxford.