Females Battle to Suppress Their Inner Male

SYMPOSIUM: AAOS/ORS/ABJS MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM Mortality in Female War Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom

Background Combat-wounded service members are surviving battle injuries more than ever. Given different combat roles held by men and women, female service members should survive wounds at an unprecedented rate. Questions/purposes We determined whether the casualty rates for females differ from their male counterparts and characterized wounds sustained by female casualties. Methods We calculated...

Mortality in female war veterans of operations enduring freedom and Iraqi freedom.

BACKGROUND Combat-wounded service members are surviving battle injuries more than ever. Given different combat roles held by men and women, female service members should survive wounds at an unprecedented rate. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES We determined whether the casualty rates for females differ from their male counterparts and characterized wounds sustained by female casualties. METHODS We calcul...

Female Choice of Males in Cuttlefish

In captivity, male cuttlefish use visual displays to establish size-based dominance hierarchies and larger males obtain most of the copulations. This experiment was performed to determine if females prefer the larger, more dominant males and whether females use male visual displays to evaluate males. Twenty sexually mature, virgin female cuttlefish were given up to six opportunities to approach...

Adolescent Males and Females the Myth of the Alpha Male: a New Look at Dominance-related Beliefs and Behaviors Among

Haq et al.: Suppression of Remating of Bactrocera cucurbitae Females 839 ABILITY OF GENETIC SEXING STRAIN MALE MELON FLIES (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE) TO SUPPRESS WILD FEMALE REMATING: IMPLICATIONS FOR SIT

For successful application of the sterile insect technique (SIT), wild female insects should not be more receptive to remating after mating with a mass-reared sterile male than after to mating with a wild fertile male. The remating frequencies of melon fly Bactrocera cucurbitae Coquillett (Diptera: Tephritidae) females were assessed in field cages with male melon flies from: (1) a male-only gen...