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Table 6 Continuation of Table 3 showing the remaining 11–64 most commonly encountered terms in an overall analysis of sexual selection in insects.

From: Automated content analysis as a tool to compare content in sexual selection research with examples of sexual selection in evolutionary biology textbooks: implications for teaching the nature of science

 

Concept

Relevance %

Count

1

Variation or variance

26

1622

2

Intraspecific

24

1503

3

Choice

24

1487

4

Population

21

1339

5

Gametes

20

1244

6

Success

19

1222

7

Sex

19

1213

8

Sperm

17

1092

9

Productivity

17

1043

10

Morphology

17

1041

11

Signals

16

1004

12

Body

15

920

13

Appendages

14

900

14

Competition

14

858

15

Relationships or relationship

13

841

16

Courtship

12

737

17

System

11

677

18

Fitness

11

667

19

Pair

10

654

20

Dimorphism

10

637

21

Ecology

10

626

22

Wing

10

615

23

Role

10

601

24

Zones

9

590

25

Song

9

583

26

Development

9

561

27

Land

9

556

28

Divergence

9

555

29

Cycle

9

553

30

Copulation

8

474

31

Isolation

7

444

32

Speciation

7

437

33

Fertilization

7

432

34

Communication

7

430

35

Biometrics

7

423

36

Offspring

6

353

37

Acoustic

6

351

38

Colour

6

347

39

Condition

5

345

40

Rate

5

342

41

Phenotypic

5

334

42

Conflict

5

325

43

Pheromone

5

310

44

Mechanisms

5

308

45

Significantly

5

295

46

Chemical

5

283

47

Parasites

5

283

48

Host

5

283

49

Fecundity

4

279

50

Calling

4

271

51

Luminescence

4

258

52

Postcopulatory

4

231

53

Ratio

4

222

54

Remating

3

186