Talk:Gryllus bimaculatus

message: Two yellowish spots at base of wings identify this cricket, native to Africa, Asia and Europe Pendragon39 22:29, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference link 

message: Bretman, A., Rodriguez-Munoz, R., Walling, C., & Tregenza, T. 2011. Guarding Males Protect Females from Predation in a Wild Insect. Current Biology, 21: 1716-1719. 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211009596
Emiliaromagna1 (talk) 03:21, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk: References 

message: I corrected some wording and grammatical errors and italicized the species name. For the polyandry section, you need to add why the rate of polyandry of males is unspecific but why it is relatively high. Also, more specific details are needed how females differentiate between novel and previous mates in the Novel Mate section. Someone put more information about polyandry, and there are some repetitive sections and sentences. Those need to be reorganized and recombined within appropriate sections. For the further recommendation, more information of fitness consequences should be stated to show the effects of polyandry. Jihyek13 (talk) 01:22, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments for improvement 

message: •	In the polyandry subsection, I would combine the second and third sentences as they say the same thing.
•	Change “The more sperm that is deposited results in greater fertilization success because more eggs are able to hatch” to “this means that more sperm being deposited leads to higher fertilization success” more eggs hatching does not actually increase fertilization success, it is actually the other way around, higher fertilization success means more eggs hatching.
•	I feel as though the entire first paragraph of the polyandry subsection does not actually talk about polyandry, or even polygamy for that matter. It talks about characteristics of sperm, but this info could remain here if reworded to reference polygamy as changing these characteristics. However, I still think it they should not be under polyandry even if it was reworded. 
•	While the info in the second paragraph in the polyandry subsection of polygamy is good, there is already a section on polyandry and therefore this info should be incorporated in there, not in the polygamy section.
•	In both the sperm competition and male-guarding behavior subsections, reference needs to be made to how polygamy affects these traits. Otherwise, they will not fit into the polygamy section.
•	In “Inbreeding is a major example of genetic incompatibility because more genetically related individuals tend to have offspring with lower fitness,” I feel as though you could remove genetically from in front of related.
•	Change “As a result, male crickets that are genetically similar to female mates tend to be less effective in producing offspring because they are not selected as mates as often as genetically dissimilar males” to “As a result, males that are genetically similar to females tend to be less effective in producing offspring because they are not selected as mates as often as genetically dissimilar males.
•	Changed “Male guarding behaviors may have also evolved to reduce the risk of females becoming prey” to “Male guarding behaviors also reduce the risk of females becoming prey.”
•	Removed as well from “This not only has the benefit of allowing that particular male’s sperm to become fertilized, but also allows the female to continue to survive and reproduce as well”
•	Changed “This can potentially lead to the female mating more with the guarding male and creating more of his offspring” to “This in turn can lead to increased mating between the female and guarding male.”
Pubh101 (talk) 08:17, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments on Polygamy Section 

message: Mbastani, 
When reading the Polygamy section of the article, I felt that a lot of facts were given to me, but weren’t really putting the big picture together. As the other editor stated, many general statements to the lifestyle of the crickets are not cited, which could be an issue. I also read that the last editor came in and sectioned off the material you added into gender categories, which I also think could be advantageous for this part of the article. Some ideas that I think should be further explained will be quoted and explained below. 
The hyperlink for polygyny states “ this is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females, but each female only mates with a single male.” In the paragraph, you state the opposite, where female crickets mate with more than one male, yet males only mate with one female. I think that this would be very confusing to viewers on the topic. 
You state that “Both females and males continuously seek mates whom they can spread their seed.” I think citing and rephrasing this idea would be better. Possibly by stating the sexual selection process and how this phenomenon is carried out by this species. Also as the other editor explained, I’m not quite sure what you mean by “this rate for males is unspecific but relatively high.” I would also have a citation of such correlation if you want to keep it in the article. 
I think adding the costs of polyandry in the first paragraph would give additional insight as to how much the benefits are advantageous in this population. Also, additional information under the female heading would be beneficial as to the cost and benefits of having numerous copulations with males. 
In male section, explain why “the last male that mates with a female tends to have the highest fertilization success.”
Lastly, in the male guarding section, comment if there is any competition with other males that are currently guarding. Do other male crickets try to fight the other male to gain access to the female? What is the success rate of mating success for males that guard the female? I think the answers to these questions may hone in on the big picture of polygamy and why it is beneficial to this species. Namaste314 (talk) 15:37, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Edit 

message: Thank you to Mbastani for all of your edits! I further edited this article by:
* I deleted the sub-section about females under polyandry because polyandry itself describes a mating process that only females can perform. As a result, I also moved around the information that talked about male mating to the polygamy section as a whole so that it was not put under polyandry because males can not exhibit polyandry. 
* I moved the sub-section "Novel Mate Hypothesis" to the bottom to make the article flow better, since the last sentence of the polyandry section sets up the sub-sections of “Sperm Competition” and “Male Guarding Behavior”.
* I also moved "Males" sub-section to under polygamy and changed the section title to “Polygamy in Males” to demonstrate that this section describes polygamy in males and not polyandry.
* I moved the sentences, “The rate at which males seek mates is unspecific but relatively high. This is due to anisogamy and their drive to pass on alleles while minimizing competition,” to the “Polygamy in Males” sub-section. 
Emiliaromagna1 (talk) 22:54, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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