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We investigated the effects of male population density and male-biased operational sex ratio (OSR) with constant and limited resource density on male mating tactics shown by a freshwater fish, the European bitterling, Rhodeus sericeus . This species spawns inside living unionid mussels. Large males defended territories and were aggressive towards conspecifics under equal sex ratios. They also monopolised pair spawnings with females, releasing 98% of all sperm clouds during mating. However, the mating tactic changed at high male density where large males ceased to be territorial and instead competed with groups of smaller males to release sperm when females spawned. Large, medium and small males now obtained 61%, 33%, and 6% of sperm releases respectively, thereby reducing the opportunity for sexual selection by half. Females spawned at equal rates in the two densities of males, despite lower courtship at high density. These results run counter to the usual expectation that an increasingly male-biased OSR should lead to higher variance in male mating success. Instead, the use of alternative reproductive behaviours by males can lead to lower resource competition and mating variance at high male densities. 相似文献
2.
Female and male reproductive interests often differ. In species in which matings are accompanied by a transfer of resources
valuable for both participants, such as nuptial prey gifts, conflicts may readily occur. Scorpionflies may use alternative
mating tactics. One is to offer a prey item (dead arthropod) to females in exchange for mating. This prey gift tactic includes
a conflict because a male must decide on whether to offer the gift rather than to fight the female and consume the gift. The
outcome may depend on the nutritional status of both males and females. Males may be more willing to give if they themselves
are satiated and the condition of the females may influence the payoff from the males’ investment. Similarly, females may
be more willing to accept food gifts if they are in poor nutritional condition. In this study of the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata, I experimentally manipulated the feeding history of both males and females. I observed the outcome of the direct interactions
that followed when males that were holding prey were approached by females. I found that well-fed males offered the food gift
sooner than males in poor nutritional condition that fed extensively on the food item before offering. Female condition had
no significant influence on whether prey items were offered by males or accepted by females. I also found that well-fed males
rarely searched for prey to pursue the prey gift tactic in courtship. Thus, the prey tactic does not seem to be the males’
first option. 相似文献
3.
Ben B. Chapman Lesley J. Morrell Jens Krause 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(12):1757-1763
The environment is profoundly important in shaping many aspects of animal phenotype, including courtship and mating behaviours.
Courtship displays rely upon the transmission of visual information from the signaller to the receiver, which means they are
likely to be less effective in visually poor conditions such as at low light or in turbid ecosystems. One might therefore
predict that in visually poor environments it would be beneficial for individuals to plastically adjust their mating behaviour
to maximise mating success. Here, we investigate the impact of the developmental and current visual environment (light intensity)
upon male mating behaviour in the Trinidadian guppy Poecilia reticulata. Male guppies have two different mating tactics: They can court females with a visual sigmoid display or attempt to circumvent
female choice by attempting a non-consensual copulation (gonapodium thrust). We reared juvenile guppies in low light and relatively
high light intensities for 5 months before observing individual males for mating behaviour in both light conditions. We found
that the current light environment is important in determining the frequency of both sigmoidal courtship displays and non-consensual
copulation attempts. Males increase the frequency of sigmoidal displays at relatively high light and increase non-consensual
mating attempts at low light, suggesting that males compensate for poor visual conditions via an adjustment in tactics. We
also find a significant correlation in courtship effort between the different light environments, suggesting that there is
individual consistency across time and context for this trait. Developmental environment was less important. However, we found
that fish reared at lower light intensities continued to employ sigmoidal displays despite the poor current visual environment.
Our data show that male mating behaviour is phenotypically plastic in response to recent light environment. This may have
implications for understanding how animals cope with anthropogenic environmental change. 相似文献
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In mammals with solitary females, the potential for males to monopolize matings is relatively low, and scramble competition polygyny is presumed to be the predominant mating system. However, combinations of male traits and mating tactics within this type of polygyny have been described. The main aim of our study was to identify the relative importance of, and interactions among, potential determinants of contrasting male reproductive tactics, and to determine their consequences for male reproductive success in a small solitary nocturnal Malagasy primate, the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). We studied their mating behavior over three consecutive annual mating seasons. In addition, we determined the genetic relationships among more than 300 study animals to quantify the reproductive success of individual males. We found that, with a given relatively low overall monopolization potential, successful male mouse lemurs roamed extensively in search of mates, had superior finding ability and mated as early as possible. However, contest competition was important too, as temporary monopolization was also possible. Males exhibited different mating tactics, and heavier males had a higher reproductive success, although most litters had mixed paternities. Switching between tactics depended on short-term local variation in monopolization potential determined by a pronounced dynamic in fertilization probability, number of alternative mating opportunities, and the operational sex ratio. This study also revealed that the dynamics of these determinants, as well as the mutual interactions between them, necessitate a detailed knowledge of the mating behavior of a species to infer the impact of determinants of alternative mating tactics.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at
Communicated by S. AlbertsThis revised version was published online in August 2004 with corrections to Figure 2. 相似文献
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Mate sampling behaviour of black grouse females (Tetrao tetrix) 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Pekka T. Rintamäki Rauno V Alatalo Jacob Höglund Arne Lundberg 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1995,37(3):209-215
We studied female mate sampling behaviour in lekking black grouse (Tetrao tetrix). Females mainly visited males occupying territories in the centre of the lek with relatively large territories. They were also more likely to visit males that had high attendance. The same factors were also correlated with male mating success. A multiple regression model including these factors explained more of the variance in female visits per male (53%) than in mating success (33%). The pattern of female sampling conformed with a pool comparison (best-of-n) tactic. Such a tactic is expected if the costs of sampling are low. Females of high body mass visited more males than lighter females, however, which indicates that females may vary in their search tactics and suggests that there may be search costs. The existence of costs is further suggested by the fact that if the mate from a previous year was still present, females always mated with the same male in the following year. Though search costs were not measured directly, our findings suggest that some costs are negligible (e.g. energetic exhaustion or predation) whereas others (timing of mating) may be more important. 相似文献
6.
Szabolcs Lengyel 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(4):589-598
When reproductive success is constant in one breeding phase, different tactics that increase variation in reproductive success
among individuals may evolve in other phases. For instance, in shorebirds, which usually have a limited clutch size of four
eggs, variation in reproductive tactics among individuals is expected either before egg-laying (e.g. diverse mating systems)
or after hatching of the young (e.g. diverse parental care). In this paper, I studied the pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta), a shorebird with a modal clutch size of four eggs, to test whether post-hatch chick adoption as an alternative tactic can
be linked to increased variation in annual reproductive success. When predation was high, naturally adopting pairs produced
more filial fledglings than did pairs not adopting chicks and not losing chicks to adoption. The number of filial fledglings
increased with the number of adopted young, possibly through diluting the chances of predation on filial young. Experimental
chick addition did not lead to more fledged young due to low brood integrity as shown by the frequent loss of chicks from
some experimental broods. When predation was low, larger broods occupied feeding territories with higher prey abundance than
smaller broods, possibly due to their dominance over smaller ones. Pairs that lost chicks to adoption (donors) fledged as
many filial young in their broods as did non-adopters/non-donors, whereas the total number of donors’ filial fledglings, including
those raised in adopting broods, approached that of adopters. These findings show, for the first time, that post-hatch alternative
reproductive tactics can lead to variation in annual reproductive success and to higher success for some pairs even in species
where past adaptations limit variation in reproductive success in a certain phase of reproduction. 相似文献
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Laura K. Weir 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2013,67(2):193-203
Intense male–male competition driven by high male density during mating can result in the evolution of alternative mating tactics that increase male fertilization success. The effects of alternative male mating tactics on females can range from increased fertilization and genetic benefits to decreased fertilization and loss of paternal care. However, the influence of male competitive behavior and alternative mating tactics on female behavior and reproductive success has seldom been addressed. In this work, I investigated the occurrence of alternative male mating tactics and their potential influence on female behavior and fertilization success in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). Groups of one, two, or four males competed for access to a female in a repeated-measures experiment. Male density had a significant influence on female reproductive output as a result of a change in competitive mode from contest to scramble competition that coincided with more disruption during mating when more than one male attempted to mate. By contrast, sneaking during mating was beneficial to males, as more than one male sired offspring in most spawnings involving sneaker males. These results suggest that there may be conflict between males and females over mating, such that females are detrimentally affected by the occurrence of alternative mating tactics, whereas males may benefit from sneak mating. The occurrence of conflict between the sexes can be related to ecological factors, such as male density, which cause behavioral change in both males and females. 相似文献
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Y. Tsubaki Michael T. Siva-Jothy Tomohiro Ono 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1994,35(4):219-225
After copulation, male Nannophya pygmaea dragonflies mate guard by hovering over ovipositing females and repelling conspecific males. Copulation is not always a prerequisite for oviposition in the females of this species because females can store the sperm received during previous visits/copulations. An oviposition episode consists of several bouts of oviposition separated by periods of perching. We conducted two types of male-removal experiments to examine the effects of mating and post-copulatory mate guarding on the oviposition behaviour of females. In the first experiment, we removed all males from the habitat to eliminate the effect of re-copulation, mate-guarding and harassment by males. In the second experiment, we removed males immediately after copulation to eliminate the effects of guarding and other post-copulatory male-female interactions. We compared these experimental data with data obtained under natural conditions. The dipping rate in an oviposition bout was not influenced by copulation or guarding. However, guarded females made more dips per episode than did solitary females. The proportion of time actually spent ovipositing (total bout duration/oviposition episode duration) of guarded females was higher than that of solitary females. Solitary females often oviposited in more than one territorial site, while guarded females usually oviposited within a single territorial site during an oviposition episode. Because males tend to hold territories at sites where egg survival is high, guarded females (and the male guardian) benefit from guarding in terms of egg hatchability. The possible benefits for solitary females are discussed. 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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Sergio Castellano Valentina Marconi Valeria Zanollo Giulia Berto 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(8):1109-1118
As in many lekking anurans, Italian treefrog males use two mating tactics: they can attract females by calling vigorously
or be satellites, that is, they can remain silent in proximity of a calling male and try to intercept females attracted by
their neighbour. We investigated the factors that affected the expression of this mating tactic. Consistent with the conditional
mating tactic hypothesis, satellites were smaller than average and smaller than their parasitised calling males. They spent
a larger-than-average number of nights at the breeding site, where most of them were also observed calling. Moreover, satellites
showed lower call rates and lower mating success than those of males they parasitise but not lower than those of males they
did not parasitise. Overall, these results, together with those derived from the analyses of the seasonal and spatial distribution
of males, provide evidence for a non-random association between satellites and calling males and are consistent with the hypothesis
that satellites have spectral and temporal acoustic preferences that parallel those of females. By adopting the less-successful
satellite mating tactic, competitively inferior males can nevertheless maximise their potential reproductive fitness by sexually
parasitising the most attractive chorusing males. 相似文献
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Kooji Hayashi 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1985,16(4):301-306
Summary Males of the water strider Gerris elongatus established territories which included copulation and oviposition sites (small pieces of fallen bamboo). Males were aggressive and competition for territory and females was observed frequently. Male midlegs were more developed than female midlegs and were used as weapons. Reproductive behaviour changed as the breeding season advanced. Early in the season immature females were attracted by male surface wave courtship signals, then copulated white floating on the water surface without ovipositing (type 1). In midseason, males established territories, produced calling signals and attracted females which copulated and oviposited there with male postcopulatory guarding (type 2). In late season, many females oviposited without postcopulatory guarding on pondweed mats near fallen bamboo. Non-territorial males waiter for the arrival of these females and copulated without courtship, but mating success was low (type 3). These alternative mating strategies appeared to depend on differences in male size. Larger males were superior to smaller males in many ways (establishing territory, fighting, mating etc.). The largest males defended territories and had higher mating success than small non-territorial males. Medium sized males used all three strategies according to the number of empty territories and seasonal femald distribution. 相似文献
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Many fishes are characterized by intense sperm competition between males that use alternative mating tactics. In externally
fertilizing fishes, males’ proximity to females during spawning can be an important determinant of fertilization success.
Here, we assess how mating tactic, body length, speed during streak spawns, and periphery cover affect males’ proximity to
females during sperm competition in the externally fertilizing bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus). Bluegill are characterized by three mating tactics referred to as parental, sneaker, and satellite. Parentals are territorial
and construct nests, while sneakers use a streaking behavior, and satellites use female mimicry to steal fertilizations from
parentals. We show that a small body length is important for sneakers but not for satellites to obtain a close position to
the female during spawning. Specifically, smaller sneakers obtain a closer position to females than larger sneakers in part
by positioning themselves closer on the periphery of a parental’s nest before streaking but show no difference in the speed
at which they streak. The amount of peripheral vegetation around a parental’s nest did not appear to affect proximity of sneakers
to females, and there was no relationship between the amount of peripheral vegetation and the frequency of intrusions by either
sneakers or satellites. Finally, parentals were farther from the female when a sneaker or satellite intruded than when they
spawned alone with the female. 相似文献
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We focused on male harassment on different female color morphs of the damselfly Ischnura elegans and on variation in morph-specific mating avoidance tactics by females. In I. elegans, one of the female morphs is colored like the conspecific male (andromorphs) while the other morphs are not (gynomorphs). Our first goal was to quantify morph-specific male mating attempts, hence male harassment, in populations with manipulated population parameters (densities, sex ratios, and proportion of andromorphs). Second, we examined the female's perspective by looking for potential differences in morph-specific mating avoidance tactics and success of those tactics in a natural population. Differences in population conditions did influence the number of male mating attempts per morph. The less frequent female morph was always subject to fewer mating attempts, which contradicts earlier hypotheses on mimicry, but supports those that assume that males learn to recognize female morphs. Gynomorphs occupy less open habitat and often fly away when a male approaches, while andromorphs use more open habitat, do not fly large distances and directly face approaching males. Female morphs did not differ in the proportion of successful mating-avoidance attempts. Our results suggest that the maintenance of the color polymorphism is most probably the result of interactive selective forces depending on variation in all population conditions, instead of solely density- or frequency-dependent selection within populations. 相似文献
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Camila Zatz Rachel M. Werneck Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez Glauco Machado 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(5):995-1005
Intense male–male competition for females may drive the evolution of male morphological dimorphism, which is frequently associated
with alternative mating tactics. Using modern techniques for the detection of discontinuous allometries, we describe male
dimorphism in the Neotropical harvestman Longiperna concolor, the males of which use their elongated, sexually dimorphic legs IV in fights for the possession of territories where females
lay eggs. We also tested three predictions related to the existence of alternative mating tactics: (1) if individuals with
relatively longer legs IV (majors) are more likely to monopolize access to reproductive resources, they are expected to remain
close to stable groups of females more than individuals with relatively shorter legs IV (minors) do; (2) if minors achieve
fertilization by moving between territories, they are expected to be less faithful to specific sites; and (3) majors should
be observed in aggressive interactions more often. We individually marked all the individuals from a population of Longiperna during the reproductive season and recorded the location of each sighting for males and females as well as the identity of
males involved in fights. Majors were more likely to have harems, and large majors were even more likely to do so. Majors
were more philopatric and all males involved in fights belonged to this morph. These results strongly suggest that the mating
tactic of the majors is based on resource defense whereas that of the minors probably relies on sneaking into the territories
of the majors and furtively copulating with females. 相似文献
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Polyandry and enhanced reproductive success in the harlequin-beetle-riding pseudoscorpion 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
J. A. Zeh 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1997,40(2):111-118
The growing molecular evidence that females of many species mate with several males calls for a critical reassessment of
the selective forces which act to shape female mating tactics. In natural populations of the harlequin-beetle-riding pseudoscorpion,
Cordylochernes scorpioides, females are polyandrous and typically produce mixed-paternity broods. Laboratory behavioral analyses and breeding experiments
indicate that polyandry in this pseudoscorpion is an active strategy which increases female reproductive success. Females
restricted to mating with a single male experienced a higher rate of embryo failure and produced significantly fewer offspring
than either females mated to more than one male in the laboratory or females naturally inseminated in the field. Forced copulation,
insufficient sperm from a single mating, male nutrient donations and variation in inherent male genetic quality cannot explain
the greater number of nymphs hatched by polyandrous females in this study. Evidence suggests that, by mating with several
males, C. scorpioides females may exploit postcopulatory mechanisms for reducing the risk and/or cost of embryo failure resulting from fertilization
by genetically incompatible sperm.
Received: 5 May 1996 / Accepted after revision: 16 October 1996 相似文献
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Love bites: male fang use during coercive mating in wolf spiders 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Julianna L. Johns J. Andrew Roberts David L. Clark George W. Uetz 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,64(1):13-18
Evolutionary conflicts of interest between the sexes are common, as mating tactics and strategies that increase fitness benefits
for one sex may incur costs for the other. As a consequence, antagonistic coevolution between the sexes often results in a
complex arms race between male persistence and female resistance. Coercive mating (e.g., forced copulation) likely benefits
males by increasing the probability of mating; however, costs to females may be high, including injury or even death. Here,
we report on a study of the use of fangs by males of the wolf spider Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz) during forcible mating with resistant females, which results in hemolymph loss and scar tissue formation in females.
Microscopic inspection revealed that fang wounds (evidenced by scar tissue) were absent on unmated (virgin) females but were
found on mated females and were significantly more frequent in coercively mated females. Experimental fang immobilization
studies found no difference in copulation success between experimental (fangs immobilized) and control (sham manipulation)
males. However, males that had use of their fangs had significantly longer copulation duration. These findings represent a
previously unknown male mating tactic in spiders and an unrecognized potential cost of mating for female spiders. 相似文献
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Véronique Thériault Louis Bernatchez Julian J. Dodson 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,62(1):51-65
Salmonids are known for the occurrence in sympatry of two life-history forms, one that undergoes migration to sea before returning
to freshwater to reproduce (anadromous) and one that inhabits freshwater without a migration phase (resident). Whereas one
breeding population is often suggested by population genetic studies, mating patterns have rarely been directly assessed,
especially when both sexes are found within each life-history form. By using highly polymorphic microsatellite loci and parentage
analysis in a natural population of sympatric anadromous and resident brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis), we found that gene flow occurred between the two forms and was mediated by resident males mating with both resident and
anadromous females. Determinants of reproductive success, estimated by the number of surviving juveniles (ages 1 and 2 years),
differed between the sexes. No strong evidence of the influence of size on individual reproductive success was found for males,
whereas larger females (and hence most likely to be anadromous) were more successful. The higher individual reproductive success
of anadromous fish compared to residents was mainly explained by this higher reproductive success of anadromous females. We
suggest that resident males adopt a “sneaking” reproductive tactic as a way of increasing their reproductive success by mating
with females of all sizes in all habitats. The persistence of the resident tactic among females may be linked to their advantage
in accessing spatially constrained spawning areas in small tributary streams unavailable to larger females. 相似文献
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When animals forage in groups, they can search for food themselves (producer tactic), or they can search for opportunities
to exploit the food discoveries of others (scrounger tactic). Both theoretical and empirical work have shown that group-level
use of these alternative tactics is influenced by environmental conditions including group size and food distribution, and
individual tactic use can be influenced by several measures of individual state, including body condition. Because body condition
has been shown to be heritable for various species, social foraging tactics may also be heritable. We looked for evidence
of heritability in social foraging tactic use in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) by testing whether: (1) natural variation in body condition correlates with tactic use, (2) there are family-related differences
in body condition, and (3) there are family-related differences in observed tactic use. Tactic use in the zebra finch was
significantly related to body condition; individuals with lower body condition scores had a significantly higher use of the
scrounger tactic as predicted from variance-sensitive producer–scrounger models. Body-condition scores differed significantly
between families, suggesting that this aspect of individual state may have a heritable component. Finally, we recorded significant
family-related differences in the use of producer and scrounger alternatives. These results are consistent with heritability
in observed tactic use resulting from an inheritance of individual state, in this case body condition, which itself influences
tactic use. Understanding how and why individuals differ in their use of alternative tactics is fundamental as it may provide
important insights into inter-individual variation in fitness. 相似文献
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We used the multilocus DNA fingerprinting technique, amplified fragment length polymorphism, to examine parentage of 902 offspring from eight experimental populations of the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus. The males of this species exhibit a suit of morphological and behavioural traits that characterise alternative mating tactics. Hornless minor males sneak copulations with females that are guarded by horned major males. Our aims were to provide a prospective assessment of the potential role of frequency dependence in the maintenance of alternative mating tactics, to assess the levels of polyandry, and to determine the patterns of sperm usage by multiply mated females. The average proportion of offspring sired by major and minor males did not co-vary with the relative frequency of each morph present in experimental populations. However, there was some indication that the effective mating frequency (number of females producing offspring sired by a given male) of major and minor males may exhibit frequency dependence. Mating success of both male types declined with increasing numbers of major males. Paternity was positively associated with effective mating frequency. Females produced offspring sired from between one and eight males and, on average, paternity was distributed equally amongst a females mates, regardless of the number of males mated. Differences in fertilisation success among males were not associated with alternative male phenotypes. Neither did a males fertilisation success depend on his genetic dissimilarity with the female. These results are discussed in the context of the evolution of alternative mating strategies, and mechanisms of postcopulatory sexual selection.Communicated by N. Wedell 相似文献
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In species where males use alternative reproductive tactics and male phenotypes are confronted with different risks of sperm
competition, theory predicts that between-male-type differences in sperm expenditure may evolve. In the frog Crinia georgiana big males can monopolize females, whereas small males often engage in polyandrous matings. Consequently, big males may experience
a lower risk of sperm competition than do small males. We tested if the predictions from theoretical models can be applied
to the mating system of C. georgiana. Our results showed that small males do not have larger testes relative to their body size compared to their larger counterparts
and that the efficiency with which sperm number, size, motility, and longevity are produced by the testes does not differ
between small and large males in the predicted way. These results are not in alignment with predictions from a loaded raffle
model of sperm competition on sperm expenditure in males with alternative phenotypes. The plasticity in mating tactics used
by C. georgiana males and a high intraseasonal variation in male densities may have prevented the evolution of enhanced sperm performance
in smaller males. A fair raffle in the sperm competition game played by C. georgiana males could also explain the observed patterns in sperm traits. Future investigations determining the parameters responsible
for the deviation from theoretical predictions in this system will test the degree to which current theoretical models can
indeed be applied to species with plastic reproductive tactics. 相似文献