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Jonathan P. Evans Jennifer L. Kelley Indar W. Ramnarine Andrea Pilastro 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2002,52(6):496-502
Previous work has shown that under elevated predation risk, male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) switch from courtship to less conspicuous coercive mating attempts. This behavioural transition is traditionally interpreted as a 'risk-sensitive' response that makes males less conspicuous to predators. However, predation risk leads to behavioural changes (such as schooling and predator inspection) in females that may result in coercive mating attempts being more profitable in high-risk situations. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the switch to coercive mating by male guppies in high-risk situations is mediated by adjustments in female behaviour, rather than directly by the predator. We used replicate models resembling a known guppy predator to simulate predation risk in wild-caught guppies from a high-predation population in Trinidad. Our results revealed that males performed proportionately more coercive mating attempts when presented with a female that had been exposed previously to a model predator compared to when males were paired with non-exposed females. Total mating activity (combined rates of courtship and forced mating attempts) did not differ significantly among the two treatment groups, indicating that overall mating activity is unaffected by predation risk. Importantly, when we subsequently presented both sexes concurrently with a predator model, total mating activity and the proportion of forced mating attempts remained unchanged in the high-risk treatment. Taken together, these results indicate that the transition from courtship to forced mating attempts under elevated predation risk is mediated by changes in female behaviour, which we suggest may favour the use of coercive mating under high predation risk. 相似文献
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Environment plays a major role for determining the kind of courtship behaviours or alternative mating tactics employed, but
the effect of physical variables on fitness has received little attention. The Alpine newt courts during both day and night
times and exhibits a complex suite of behaviours involving olfactory, visual and tactile cues. Displaying in both dark and
light conditions may increase the number of mating opportunities and alleviate predation risk, but the frequency and efficacy
of the various tactics deployed may vary across light conditions, leading males to vary their use of these tactics across
different light regimes. To test this hypothesis, we video-recorded sexual encounters at two light intensities in a controlled
experimental design. When courting in the dark, males used comparatively more olfactory rather than visual displays. They
also relied more on positive feedback from the female before releasing a spermatophore for her to pick up. The particular
mix of tactics used under each light condition is likely to be adaptive because in the dark (1) visual communication is hampered,
making olfactory displays possibly more effective and (2) males depositing spermatophores are more likely to lose fertilizations
to competitors. Mating in light and dark conditions has similar reproductive payoffs, which shows that displaying in the dark
is not detrimental and may even be advantageous if predation risk is reduced at night. These results confirm the importance
of taking into account physical variables to understand the evolution of sexual communication in animals. 相似文献
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Gabrielle A. Archard Innes C. Cuthill Julian C. Partridge 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,64(2):169-182
Male guppies, Poecilia reticulata, have color patterns that result from a balance between natural selection for crypsis to avoid predators and sexual selection
for bright, complex patterns that attract females. Males use displays to show off these patterns to potential mates, but their
conspicuousness also depends on the light environment in which they are viewed. We investigated variation in natural underwater
guppy light environments in Trinidad, West Indies, and found that mating behavior is correlated with both the ‘quantity’ (total
irradiance) and ‘quality’ (spectral composition) of light: light intensity and the proportion of ultraviolet light were negatively
related to display rates. Experimental manipulation of light environment to mimic natural daily changes demonstrated that
these relationships are causal and are independent of time of day effects. At lower light levels, when guppies are less detectable
by visually hunting predators, females had more opportunity for active mate choice, because males displayed more. However,
these light conditions may reduce the ability of females to accurately discriminate between males. Guppy mating behavior is
therefore strongly affected by light environment, and this may have important effects on sexual selection. 相似文献
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Palestina Guevara-Fiore Jessica Stapley Penelope J. Watt 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(10):1665-1672
Males vary in the degree to which they invest in mating. Several factors can explain this variation, including differences
in males’ individual condition and the fact that males allocate their energy depending on the context they face in each mating
attempt. Particularly, female quality affects male reproductive success. Here, we studied whether male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) strategically allocated more mating effort, in terms of mating behaviour and male–male competition, when they were matched
with a receptive (R) female than a non-receptive one. In accordance with our prediction, we found that males increased their
mating behaviour when they were with a receptive female. Even though male guppies can inseminate non-receptive females, we
only found high levels of courtship between males that were with a receptive female rather than a non-receptive one. Although
there was little affect of female receptivity on male–male competition, we found that males chased and interrupted courtships
more with receptive females than with non-receptive females regardless of odour. Finally, we also studied whether the sexual
pheromone produced by receptive female guppies is a cue that males use in order to increase their mating effort. We found
that males were more attracted to a female when they perceived the sexual pheromone, but only increased their mating and aggressive
behaviours when females showed receptive behaviour. This strategic increase in mating effort could result in higher male reproductive
success because mating attempts towards receptive females are likely to be less costly and males could have a greater probability
of fertilisation. 相似文献
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Eileen A. Hebets Cor J. Vink Laura Sullivan-Beckers Malcolm F. Rosenthal 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2013,67(9):1483-1498
Schizocosa wolf spiders show tremendous diversity in courtship complexity, with different species employing varying numbers of components within and across sensory modalities. Using a comparative approach, we investigate the importance of each signaling modality in the courtship display of five Schizocosa species (three stridulating and two drumming) by assessing mating success under manipulated signaling environments. Irrespective of the degree of male ornamentation, the three stridulating species exhibit a dependence on the seismic, but not visual, signaling environment for mating success. Mating was independent of signaling environment for the two drumming species. We next ask whether the degree to which each species depends upon a signaling modality for mating (i.e., modality importance) is correlated with the estimated modality-specific signal complexity. We first calculate effect sizes for the influence of seismic versus visual signaling environments on the likelihood to mate for ten Schizocosa species and then use an element-counting approach to calculate seismic and visual signal complexity scores. We use a phylogenetic regression analysis to test two predictions: (1) the importance of seismic signaling is correlated with seismic signal complexity and (2) the importance of visual signaling is correlated with visual signal complexity. We find a significant relationship between visual signal importance and visual signal complexity, but no relationship between seismic signal importance and seismic signal complexity. Finally, we test the hypothesis that selection acts on complexity per se by determining whether seismic and visual signal complexity is correlated across species. We find support for this hypothesis in a significant relationship between seismic and visual signal complexity. 相似文献
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Female choice of multiple male criteria in guppies: interacting effects of dominance,coloration and courtship 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
Astrid Kodrie-Brown 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1993,32(6):415-420
Summary I experimentally examined the relative importance of social dominance, color patterns, and courtship behavior in male mating and reproductive success in the guppy Poecilia reticulata. Female choice of males is based on a complex set of behavioral and morphological traits. The results of 59 paired-male one-female visual choice and mating trials showed that male mating success was positively correlated with dominance, courtship intensity, and male coloration. Only dominant males engaged in full copoulations, and they sired two-thirds of the broods. An analysis of the paternity of broods and results of mating trials showed that a female's visual response when the sexes are separated by a glass partition is a good predictor of a male's reproductive success when the partition is removed and they are allowed to mate. A canonical correlation analysis of male behavioral and morphological traits indicated that female visual response and male mating success were positively correlated with male courtship and with agonistic behavior. However, the relative importance of color varied. Carotenoid and iridescent spots were important both in attracting the female's attention and in enhancing male mating success. Melanins were not correlated with either mating success or female response. There was a relatively low correlation (48%) between male behavioral and morphological variables and female response variables (full copulation and female visual response). These results suggest that female choice is subtle, and is based on a complex suite of male behavioral and morphological traits as well as on competitive interactions among males. 相似文献
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We investigated male mate preferences in relation to the perceived risk of sperm competition in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata), a freshwater fish with a promiscuous mating system. Our laboratory experiments revealed that male mate choice behaviour is not influenced by the presence of rival males that are merely in close proximity to a potential mate, as there was no significant difference in the amount of time that males spent with females that were recently either alone or in close proximity to four rival males. Male mate choice behaviour was, however, strongly influenced by the presence of rival males in a second experiment, where those rivals were permitted to copulate with one of the females. In that situation, males spent significantly more time with, and directed significantly more sigmoid courtship displays toward, females that they had recently seen alone compared to females they had seen receiving forced copulations from up to four rival males. Our results therefore indicate that male guppies are sensitive to the risk of sperm competition and alter their mate choice behaviour in an adaptive fashion.Communicated by K. Lindström 相似文献
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Nina Wedell 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(9):1385-1391
A cost of mating is common to both sexes but has predominantly been examined in females. In species where males provide resources
to females at copulation, male mating costs are expected to be high as nutrient provisioning enhancing female fecundity is
assumed to carry costs. In addition, males frequently court females prior to mating, which is known to carry survival costs
to both sexes. However, the magnitude and basis of variation in males’ mating costs remains largely unknown. Here, I examine
the effect of nutrient provisioning and courtship on male longevity across full-sib families in the paternally investing green-veined
white butterfly, Pieris napi. Copulating males suffered a survival cost as did courting males prevented from copulating, indicating the courtship component
of mating is costly. Male P. napi release aphrodisiacs during courtship to promote mating, indicating that these compounds may also be costly to produce. Contrary
to expectation, nutrient provisioning was not associated with reduced survival relative to males only allowed to court females,
although it is possible that this could be masked by the potentially elevated courtship rates of courting males relative to
mating males. Families differed in magnitude of reduced male survivorship, indicating a likely genetic basis to variation
in costs of courtship and copulation. Male weight was unrelated to longevity and mating success, whereas longevity strongly
influenced male mating success, indicating lifespan is an important male fitness trait in this species. 相似文献
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George W. Uetz David L. Clark J. Andrew Roberts Meghan Rector 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(4):753-761
For visual signaling to be effective, animal signals must be detected and discriminated by receivers, often against complex
visual backgrounds with varying light levels. Accordingly, in many species, conspicuous visual displays and ornaments have
evolved as a means to enhance background contrast and thereby increase the detection and discrimination of male courtship
signals by females. Using video playbacks, we tested the hypothesis that visual courtship displays and leg decorations of
male Schizocosa ocreata wolf spiders are more conspicuous against complex leaf-litter backgrounds. Video exemplars of courting males with manipulated
leg tufts were superimposed on different backgrounds (complex leaf litter in sun or shade, featureless gray background) and
presented to female spiders. Females were more likely to orient to males presented against lighter backgrounds (litter in
sun, gray) than the darker ones (litter—shade). Males with larger tufts were also more likely to be detected, as latency to
orient was shortest for enlarged and longest for removed tufts. Latency of females to approach was shorter against lighter
backgrounds, and approach latency was longest for males without tufts. Female receptivity scores were significantly greater
for males against lighter backgrounds, and males with larger tufts had higher scores. These results suggest that both complexity
and light level of display backgrounds affect the detection of male visual courtship signals by females and that aspects of
the male phenotype may increase chances of detection (and receptivity) against visually complex backgrounds. 相似文献
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Christian Luis Rodriguez-Enriquez Eduardo Tadeo Juan Rull 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2013,67(6):937-946
Postcopulatory processes can influence male reproductive success in several animal species. Females can use different mechanisms to bias male paternity after copulation. One of such mechanisms consists in expelling all or part of the ejaculate after copulation. Euxesta bilimeki is an Ulidiid fly whose females not only frequently expel ejaculates after mating but also consume the ejaculate after expulsion. In order to understand the significance of these behaviors we examined video recordings of courtship, copulatory, and postcopulatory behaviours. The presence of sperm in female storage organs was confirmed after mating with males of different sizes and was correlated with duration of courtship, copulation, and the period from the end of copulation to ejaculate expulsion. The effect of ejaculate consumption on female fitness (fecundity and longevity) was compared among females held under different dietary treatments: a rich diet consisting of protein, sugar and water, an intermediate diet composed of sugar and water, a poor diet of only water and females that were completely deprived of food and water. All of the observed females expelled ejaculates after mating. The probability of storing sperm in the two spermathecae and the ventral receptacle was correlated with interactions between the duration of all behaviours examined and male size. Except for starved females, who lived longer when allowed to consume ejaculates, ejaculate consumption had no effect on fitness. Results suggest that females can bias sperm storage according to male mating effort, while the consumed ejaculate had some nutritional value only evident when females were completely starved. 相似文献
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Emile van Lieshout 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(2):149-156
Phenotypic variation in male genitalia may affect copulation behaviour, which can have important fitness consequences for
males. Male genitalia commonly possess traits that increase male control over copulation, but in species where females control
mating, a poor functional understanding often prevents insight into the processes responsible for such effects. Here, I investigate
the effect of male genital length on copulation behaviour in the earwig Euborellia brunneri, where both sexes exhibit extremely elongated genitalia that correspond in shape. This model system is particularly suitable
because pairs mate repeatedly and females can limit both the number and duration of copulations. I used both virgin and mated
males and females in a double-mating design because longer male genitalia confer benefits in sperm competition. Consistent
with a greater predicted male mating effort in mated females, the duration of individual copulations increased, but this traded
off against mating frequency as cumulative mating duration remained unchanged. In contrast, male genital length increased
both individual and cumulative mating duration, regardless of mating status. This difference suggests that, while males may
modify copulation duration in response to mating status, females facultatively adjust mating frequency to prevent mating excessively
or express preferences for increased male genital length. Notably, this study demonstrates that male genital phenotypes that
are successful in sperm competition also enjoy female-mediated mating benefits. 相似文献
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Mating in the red-sided garter snake,Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis: differential effects on male and female sexual behavior 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Joan M. Whittier Robert T. Mason David Crews 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1985,16(3):257-261
Summary Female red-sided garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, become unattractive to most males after mating in the field and in the laboratory. Male red-sided garter snakes vary in their latencies to court attractive females following copulation, with courtship resuming in minutes to hours. Unsuccessful males in mating balls disperse from mating pairs, but are not residually inhibited from courting attractive females. These patterns of behavior indicate that males have evolved mechanisms to maximize opportunities for copulation with several females, while females mate only once per season. 相似文献
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Summary Luyten and Liley (1985) obtained evidence that in populations of Trinidad guppies from two clear headwater streams, where Rivulus harth is the major aquatic predator, selection has favored visual aspects of male mating behavior — display activity and conspicuous coloration. Males in two lowland turbid stream populations, with numerous aquatic predators, were found to rely more heavily upon non-display components of courtship. In this study males of the four populations were placed in competition in clear water for mating with females of the same populations. Males of two populations were allowed to compete in turbid water. Mating success was determined on the basis of the frequency of insemination and the proportion of sperm attributable to males of the competing populations. The sperm of competing males were identified by radioisotope labelling and autoradiographic techniques. Males from headwater populations were more successful than lowland males in mating with headwater females in clear water. There was no difference in mating success of headwater and lowland males in competition for lowland females in clear water, but in turbid water lowland males were more successful in inseminating lowland females. Males were more successful in mating with females of their own population when the two headwater population were in competition. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that conspicuous coloration and high frequency and duration of display are adaptations to clear water conditions, and that non-display tactics are adapted to turbid water. Evidence of intrapopulation preferences suggest that male traits and female sexual responses in the guppy have evolved in parallel as predicted by sexual selection theory. 相似文献
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Gita R. Kolluru Gregory F. Grether Heidy Contreras 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(5):689-701
Food availability is expected to influence the relative cost of different mating tactics, but little attention has been paid
to this potential source of adaptive geographic variation in behavior. Associations between the frequency of different mating
tactics and resource availability could arise because tactic use responds directly to food intake (phenotypic plasticity),
because populations exposed to different average levels of food availability have diverged genetically in tactic use, or both.
Different populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in Trinidad experience different average levels of food availability. We combined field observations with laboratory “common
garden” and diet experiments to examine how this environmental gradient has influenced the evolution of male mating tactics.
Three independent components of variation in male behavior were found in the field: courtship versus foraging, dominance interactions,
and interference competition versus searching for mates. Compared with low-food-availability sites, males at high-food-availability
sites devoted more effort to interference competition. This difference disappeared in the common garden experiment, which
suggests that it was caused by phenotypic plasticity and not genetic divergence. In the diet experiment, interference competition
was more frequent and intense among males raised on the greater of two food levels, but this was only true for fish descended
from sites with low food availability. Thus, the association between interference competition and food availability in the
field can be attributed to a genetically variable norm of reaction. Genetically variable norms of reaction with respect to
food intake were found for the other two behavioral components as well and are discussed in relation to the patterns observed
in the field. Our results indicate that food availability gradients are an important, albeit complex, source of geographic
variation in male mating strategies. 相似文献
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Xiaoguo Jiao Zhanqi Chen Jun Wu Hongyan Du Fengxiang Liu Jian Chen Daiqin Li 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(2):325-332
Although the effects of male mating history on female reproductive output and longevity have been studied in insects, few
such studies have been carried out in spiders. In a mating system in which females are monandrous while males are polygynous,
females may incur the risk by mating with successful males that have experienced consecutive matings and suffer from the possible
depletion of sperm and/or associated ejaculates. Here, we examine the effects of male mating history on male courtship and
copulation duration, female reproductive fitness, and female adult longevity of the wolf spider, Pardosa astrigera. Results indicated that male mating frequency had little effect on their subsequent copulation success, and of 35 males tested,
about half of the males were able to copulate with five virgin females successively at an interval of 24 h. Male mating history
had little effect on their courtship duration. However, male mating history significantly affected male copulation duration,
female adult longevity, and reproductive output. Males that mated more frequently copulated longer and more likely failed
to cause their mates to produce a clutch, although there was no significant difference in the number of eggs laid and the
number of eggs hatched regardless of the first clutch or the second one. Multiple mating of male P. astrigera resulted in significant reduction in female adult longevity. Our results indicate that monandrous females mating with multiple-mated
males may incur substantial fitness costs. 相似文献
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Glucocorticoids affect physiology and behaviour, reproduction and potentially sexual selection as well. Short-term and moderate
glucocorticoid elevations are suggested to be adaptive, and prolonged and high elevations may be extremely harmful. This suggests
that optimal reproductive strategies, and thus sexual selection, may be dose dependent. Here, we investigate effects of moderate
and high elevations of blood corticosterone levels on intra- and intersexual behaviour and mating success of male common lizards
Lacerta vivipara. Females showed less interest and more aggressive behaviour towards high corticosterone males and blood corticosterone levels
affected male reproductive strategy. Males of moderate and high corticosterone elevations, compared with Control males, showed
increased interest (i.e., higher number of chases, tongue extrusions, and approaches) towards females and high corticosterone
males initiated more copulation attempts. However, neither increased male interest nor increased copulation attempts resulted
in more copulations. This provides evidence for a best-of-a-bad-job strategy, where males with higher corticosterone levels
compensated for reduced female interest and increased aggressive female behaviour directed towards them, by showing higher
interest and by conducting more copulation attempts. Blood corticosterone levels affected intrasexual selection as well since
moderate corticosterone levels positively affected male dominance, but dominance did not affect mating success. These findings
underline the importance of female mate choice and are in line with adaptive compensatory behaviours of males. They further
show that glucocorticoid effects on behaviour are dose dependent and that they have important implications for sexual selection
and social interactions, and might potentially affect Darwinian fitness. 相似文献
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Despite widespread recognition that intersexual interactions shape reproductive strategies, studies of male competition do
not typically include effects imposed by females. In cannibalistic redback spiders, escalated fighting between rival suitors
is predicted, as males are unlikely to mate with more than one female, and strong first-male sperm precedence favours mating
with virgins. In staged competitions for matings between size mismatched rivals, smaller males adopted an alternative sneaking
strategy. However, despite initial agonistic interactions, larger males did not pursue or incapacitate smaller males. When
inter-male competition occurred, females struck at males frequently, although strikes were rarely seen when males courted
in the absence of a rival. After minimal fighting, larger males engaged in significant courtship (3 h) rather than killing
inferior rivals. Prolonged courtship was favoured by female behaviour, as males that attempted rapid copulation (smaller,
sneaking males) were cannibalised before mating was completed. This premature cannibalism significantly decreases paternity
in redback spiders. Thus, significant features of male competitive behaviour (i.e. prolonged courtship by larger males) may
be predicted with consideration of the female’s response to male reproductive strategies. Although the effect of females may
be more subtle in systems without the extreme reversed size-dimorphism of redbacks, these results suggest that female interests
should be explicitly considered when studying inter-male interactions. 相似文献
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It is frequently assumed that males have an almost unlimited reproductive capacity, while access to receptive females is typically
limiting. Consequently, sexual selection is expected to favor vigorous courtship behavior in males. If such behavior is associated
with non-trivial costs, ample current mating opportunities should be accompanied by a reduction in future mating vigor. To
test this hypothesis, three treatments differing in sex ratio were established using the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana: 50 males each were housed either with 0, 25, or 50 females. Mating trials involving the competition among males from each
treatment for a single virgin female were carried out on days 3, 9, and 15 after allocation to treatments. While there was
no difference on day 3, prior mating opportunity clearly reduced mating success on days 9 and 15, being lowest if identical
numbers of males and females were housed together. This finding suggests accumulating costs associated with high courtship
and/or mating activity. Further, older males were more active and initiated copulation earlier than the younger ones, consistent
with the residual reproductive value hypothesis. We found no evidence for a survival or fertility cost of mating. 相似文献
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The courtship and mounting behaviour of tortoises is elaborate, and based on a multiple signalling system involving visual, olfactory and acoustic signals. Vocalizations related to mounting seem to be particularly significant because tortoises vocalize mainly at this time. Vocalizations and courtship behaviour may be costly for males, and if these costs increase differentially for different males, then the potential exists for vocalizations and displays to reveal male individual quality. In this correlative study, we analysed relationships between male mounting success and morphological and behavioural traits, particularly acoustic signals, exhibited by male marginated tortoises (Testudo marginata) during courtship, in a group of 94 individuals breeding in semi-natural enclosures. For each male, we estimated general body condition, courtship intensity and mounting success; calls of mounting males were recorded and four sonagraphic features were measured. Calls differed significantly among males, and two features varied according to body condition. Male mounting success significantly increased according to the male/female size-ratio, suggesting the existence of a size-based assortative mating. Mounting success was also highly correlated with courtship intensity, measured as number of bites and rams given to females before mounting, and with number of calls emitted during mounting. Finally, mounting success was negatively related to call duration. To our knowledge, this is the first study in which features of tortoise vocalizations are shown to convey reliable information about male quality in socio-sexual contexts.Communicated by T. Czeschlik 相似文献
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Leg ornamentation and the efficacy of courtship display in four species of wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
This study used both correlative and experimental video playback methods to test the hypothesis that the secondary sexual
traits of male wolf spiders act to increase the efficacy of visual courtship displays. Direct observations of courtship of
several lycosid genera and a review of the literature revealed a significant association between ornamentation and visual
courtship displays. This suggests that the ornamentation may be playing the role of amplifier for a visual display. To test
this hypothesis, male courtship behaviors of four Schizocosa species were experimentally manipulated using video-imaging techniques. Females of species with non-visually displaying,
non-ornamented males (Schizocosa duplex and S. uetzi) did not increase in frequency of receptivity when tufts were added to conspecific males. In a species with a visual display
and foreleg pigmentation (S. stridulans), the addition of foreleg tufts increased female receptivity. In a tufted species (S. crassipes), females tended to decrease their receptivity when male ornamentation was completely removed. In visually displaying species,
ornamentation acts to increase female receptivity, supporting its role as an amplifier of a visual display.
Received: 29 December 1997 / Received in revised form: 23 October 1999 / Accepted: 13 December 1999 相似文献