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Jae C. Choel 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1994,34(2):87-93
Summary Social behavior of a species in the little-known insect order Zoraptera is described for the first time. Zorotypus gurneyi Choe (Insecta: Zoraptera) is a wing-dimorphic species that lives colonially under the bark of rotting logs in central Panama. Males are larger than females in total body size and fight each other to gain access to females. Highly linear and stable dominance hierarchies exist among males. Higher-ranking males show such agonistic behavior as jerking, chasing, head-butting, hindleg-kicking, and grappling, whereas subordinates often try to avoid contacts. Higher-ranking males, the dominant males in particular, are well recognized by others and relatively free of injuries. Although the dominant males are often the largest, the correlation between body size and dominance rank is not always significant. The mating system of Z. gurneyi is an example of female defense polygyny in which the dominant males obtain the majority of matings (75% on average). Mating success among Z. gurneyi males is much more variable than that of some lekking species. 相似文献
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Joanna M. Setchell Marie Charpentier E. Jean Wickings 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2005,58(5):474-485
In sexually dimorphic, polygynous species, where males provide little parental care and competition between males for access to fertile females is high, sexual selection theory predicts sex differences in age-specific reproductive output and mortality profiles, and greater variance in lifetime reproductive success in males than in females. We examined age-specific reproductive output, mortality patterns and the extent and causes of variation in reproductive success for a semi-free-ranging colony of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx, Cercopithecidae) in Franceville, Gabon, using long-term (20 year) demographic records and microsatellite parentage analysis. Although differences in the demography and feeding ecology of this closed, provisioned colony, in comparison with wild mandrills, limit interpretation of our results, sex differences in reproductive output and mortality showed the patterns predicted by sexual selection theory. Mortality was higher in males than in females after sexual maturity, and lifespan was significantly shorter in males (mean 14 year) than in females (>22 year). Age at first reproduction was significantly earlier in females (mean 4.2 year) than in males (11.6 year), and male reproductive output declined earlier. All females of breeding age produced offspring; while only 17 of 53 sexually mature males (32%) sired. Males sired a maximum of 41 offspring, versus 17 in females, and variance in male reproductive output was significantly greater than in females at all ages. The most important influence on variation in lifetime reproductive output in both sexes was joint variation between length of the breeding period and reproductive rate, due to lower reproductive rates in younger animals. Finally, social rank significantly influenced reproductive output in both sexes: high-ranking females began their reproductive careers earlier and had a higher subsequent reproductive rate than low-ranking females, while males that achieved top rank during their career sired far more offspring than males that did not.Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available for this article at 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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Christian C. Voigt Gerald Heckel Frieder Mayer 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2005,57(5):457-464
We investigated how morphological traits of territorial males in the polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata were related to their reproductive success. Because of the frequency of aerial courtship displays and defence manoeuvres, and the high energetic costs of flight, we expected small and symmetric males to be better able to court females on the wing and to monopolize copulations with females in their harems. We predicted that small and symmetric males would sire more offspring within the colony and a larger portion of the young born within their harem than large or asymmetric males. We measured size and fluctuating asymmetry of 21 territorial males and analysed their reproductive success in 6 offspring cohorts (n=209 juveniles) using 11 microsatellite loci. As predicted, small and symmetric males had, on average, a higher reproductive success in the colony than large and asymmetric males. The percentage of young sired by males within their harem increased as males decreased in size, but was not influenced by fluctuating asymmetry. As fluctuating asymmetry of males correlated with their reproductive success within the colony but not within their harems, we infer that fluctuating asymmetry is probably related to female choice, whereas male size is probably important for harem defence on the wing.Communicated by G. Wilkinson 相似文献
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We experimentally studied the relative importance of plumage, dominance status, and courtship behavior in determining male pairing success in the northern pintail Anas acuta and assessed whether these traits function in female choice, male-male competition or both. In an experiment (experiment IA) that eliminated the confounding effects of male-male competition and social courtship, females chose males with pure white breasts and colorful scapular feathers. When the same group of birds were free to interact (experiment 1B), male behavior was more important: females chose males that courted them intensely and were attentive to them, although preferred males again had whiter breasts and more colorful scapulars. In a second experiment (experiment 2), testing the effect of age on pairing success, females showed a significant preference for 2-year-old males over yearlings: 2-year-old males courted more and were more attentive to the female than yearlings; they were also more colorful than yearlings in a number of plumage measurements. Although males (in both experiments 1B and 2) were aggressive to one another while courting the female and dominant males were sometimes able to exclude subordinates from social courtship, contrary to expectation, we found no relationship between initial dominance rank and pairing success or dominance rank and age. In addition, dominance was not correlated with any of the morphological traits measured. Once chosen, however, subordinate males typically initiated fights with the higher-ranked male(s) and quickly achieved dominance. These results suggest that (1) females choose males based on a suite of morphological and behavioral characteristics, (2) male dominance relationships do not constrain active female choice, (3) a male's position in a dominance hierarchy is largely a result rather than a cause of female choice, and (4) female choice plays a more significant role than male-male competition in the evolution of several secondary sexual traits in male northern pintails. 相似文献
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Determinants of paternity success in the spider Pholcus phalangioides (Pholcidae: Araneae): the role of male and female mating behaviour 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In double mating experiments, we examined whether and to what extent various male and female behavioural traits influence
the course of mating and fertilization success in the cellar spider. In males, we focussed on pre-copulatory behaviour and
on the rhythmic twisting movements that the male performs with his pedipalps during copulation. In females, we investigated
remating decisions and the effect of female termination of copulation. Second males fertilized a high proportion of the eggs
(P
2: median 89%) despite much shorter second matings, with high variation in relative paternity success. The number of pedipalp
movements (PPMs) of either male was a better predictor of paternity than copulation duration. Our results suggest that in
second matings, PPMs help to remove sperm from previous males, whereas in first matings a high number of PPMs enhances fertilization
success, either due to numerical sperm competition or cryptic female choice. Furthermore, we found a negative male age effect
on paternity in second matings, implying that age-related deterioration of spermatozoa may promote variation in fertilization
success. Female receptivity decreased significantly in second matings; only 70% of the females remated. Females that accepted
a second copulation were found to terminate these much earlier and with higher probability than first matings. This suggests
that the intensity of conflict between the sexes is higher in second matings. Increased intensity of sexual conflict may be
responsible for stronger selection on male traits, as pre-copulatory behaviour and age only affected male copulatory performance
and paternity in second matings.
Electronic Publication 相似文献
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Larissa Swedell Liane Leedom Julian Saunders Mathew Pines 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2014,68(2):263-273
Fundamental reproductive interests dictate that females generally benefit most from mate selectivity and males from mate quantity. This can create conflict between the sexes and result in sexual coercion: male use of aggression to garner mating success at a cost to females. Potential fitness costs of sexual coercion, however, can be difficult to measure. Here, we demonstrate benefits to males and costs to females of female defense polygyny in wild hamadryas baboons, cercopithecoid primates in which females are coercively transferred among social units by males, restricting both female choice and bonding among female kin. Of all coercive transfers (takeovers) of females with young infants, 67 % were followed by infant mortality, which was significantly more likely to occur after takeovers than at other times. As expected, infant mortality decreased time to subsequent conception but lengthened intervals between surviving infants. Following infant survival, whether a female had experienced a takeover after the previous birth was a significant predictor of subsequent interbirth interval, with interbirth intervals of females remaining with the same male between births being significantly shorter than those of females incurring takeovers between births. Together, these results reveal that takeovers increase the chance of infant mortality while delaying subsequent conception. Male-driven female defense polygyny in this species is thus costly to females in two ways. These results demonstrate that reproductive strategies benefitting males can evolve despite substantial costs to females. These costs may be mitigated over the long term, however, by female counterstrategies and protective behavior by males. 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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Steven K. Goldsmith 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1987,20(2):111-115
Summary Adults ofDendrobias mandibularis fed at sites where sap oozes from the stems of desert broom,Baccharis sarothroides. These sites were used by only one individual at a time. Males practiced alternative reproductive tactics, and were separated into two distinct morphs. Major males had enlarged mandibles, were found significantly more frequently at feeding sites than elsewhere on the food plants, and defended the feeding sites to gain access to females that visited the sites to feed. Minor males had small mandibles, were found significantly more frequently in foliage of the food plant than at feeding sites, and usually did not defend feeding sites. Mandibles were used in aggressive interactions, which were always won by larger males. Mating occurred at feeding sites, on stems, and in foliage of the food plant. Major males were observed mating nearly twice as often as minor males. Major males mated significantly more frequently at feeding sites than in foliage; the reverse was true of minor males. Minors occasionally occupied and mated at feeding sites. They were unable to defend feeding sites against majors, but did so occasionally against other minors. Differences in frequency, mating success, and behavior of the morphs appeared to be linked to differences in environmental conditions between the two years of this study. This study demonstrated the importance of spatial distribution of food resources in the evolution of the mating system ofDendrobias mandibularis. 相似文献
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Sexual selection and variation in reproductive strategy in male yellow warblers (Dendroica petechia) 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Summary Male yellow warblers (Dendroica petechia) exhibit extensive variation in the amount and conspicuousness of the sexually distinctive brown streaking on the breast. We investigated this intraspecific variation in degree of sexual dichromatism to see if male plumage rank (essentially the amount of brown streaking) is correlated with the amount of reproductive effort allocated to parental investment, as sexual selection theory would predict. As predicted, the average rate of feeding visits to the nest by males was negatively correlated with the plumage rank of the male in 1982 (Fig. 1) and 1983 (Fig. 2), and varied little between years or among study areas. Within one study area, the higher nest visit rate of dull (low plumage rank) males was correlated with higher nestling growth rates. But in the other two study areas, where bright (high plumage rank) males predominated, nestlings of bright males tended to have the highest growth rates despite minimal nest visit rates. Thus, overall there was no correlation between male plumage rank and nestling growth rate, a potential index of relative reproductive success, in either year (Figs. 3 and 4). This overall equal nest success likely helps to maintain the behavioral and plumage polymorphism. Since we could find no evidence that the high nestling growth rates of bright males were due to an adjustment of female parental effort to compensate for low male parental effort, there must be some other benefit of being bright which contributes to nest success. To address this, we used the relationship between parental feeding rates and nestling growth rates for each nest as an index of relative territory quality. This analysis suggests that bright males generally occupy the best territories available, possibly because they are more aggressive in obtaining and defending them than dull males. Dull males appear to be relegated to poorer territories, where an increase in male parental contribution would be necessary to achieve high nestling growth rates. We propose that different males are using alternative but evolutionarily stable reproductive strategies, in a way that is consistent with the predictions of sexual selection theory. Allocation of limited reproductive effort to parental investment decreases as sexual dichromatism increases, which probably reflects an increased investment in intermale competition for the best territories. 相似文献
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We used data from a long-term study (15 years) of fallow deer to report for the first time the lifetime mating success, overall
variance in lifetime mating success, and age-specific mortality levels of males. Fallow bucks that gain matings have higher
social dominance rank, higher rates of fighting, and invest more in vocal display during the breeding season than unsuccessful
males. Therefore, we examined if mating was associated with trade-offs in terms of survival, lifespan, and mating potential.
We found that the variance in lifetime mating success was very high: 34 (10.7%) males mated, and of those, the 10 most successful
males gained 73% of all matings (n=934). Mortality rates were generally high and only 22.3% (71/318) of males reached social maturity, i.e., 4 years. The oldest
male was 13 years old. We found that fallow bucks that mated were not more likely to die during the following year, did not
suffer from a reduction in lifespan, and did not incur lower mating success later in life as a result of mating during the
early years of social maturity. Our results show that mating males at age 5 years (and possibly 9 years) may be more likely
to survive than non-mating males. Additionally, the number of matings gained by males during the first years of social maturity
was positively correlated with lifespan. We suggest that mating males are of higher quality than non-mating males because
they are not more likely to incur trade-offs as a result of their increased reproductive efforts.
Received: 9 November 1999 / Revised: 30 April 2000 / Accepted: 27 May 2000 相似文献
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Social and mating system of cooperatively breeding laughing kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae) 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
DNA fingerprinting was combined with field observations over four breeding seasons to investigate the social structure and
mating system of the laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae). Groups comprised a socially dominant pair and up to six helpers of either sex. Helpers were always recruited from young
hatched in the group. Territorial inheritance, which is a feature of other cooperative breeders and an oft-cited benefit of
philopatry, did not occur. Helpers only attained dominant status in an established group by dispersing into a vacant dominant
position in that group. However, helpers could also form new groups by excising a new territory, often through a ”budding”
process. The mating system was overwhelmingly monogamous. There were no cases of extra-group parentage in a sample of 140
nestlings; within groups of three or more birds, dominance predicted parentage almost perfectly (99.2% of 129 nestlings),
irrespective of whether helpers in the group were related to one or both dominant birds. This is contrary to predictions from
models of reproductive skew, possibly because they currently fail to incorporate the willingness of females to share reproduction
among males.
Received: 15 May 1999 / Received in revised form: 2 November 1999 / Accepted: 6 November 1999 相似文献
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Sexual selection and cuckoldry in a monogamous songbird: implications for sexual selection theory 总被引:11,自引:0,他引:11
Geoffrey E. Hill Robert Montgomerie Christina Roeder Peter Boag 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1994,35(3):193-199
Sexual selection is generally assumed to be weaker in monogamous than in polygynous animals. Recently, though, extra-pair fertilizations have been hailed as an important force in generating variance in reproductive success among males in socially monogamous species, thereby increasing the intensity of sexual selection. To see if extra-pair copulations contribute to variance in male reproductive success in the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), we used DNA fingerprinting to determine the paternity of chicks from 35 nests. This species is a socially monogamous passerine in which plumage brightness serves as a sexually selected indicator of male quality. Out of 119, nestlings 10 (8.3%) were fathered by a male other than the attending male, but cuckoldry occurred randomly with respect to the plumage colouration, size, or age of the attending male. Thus extra-pair fertilizations do not generate variance in male reproductive success with respect to plumage colour. On the other hand, a strongly male-biased sex ratio and asynchronous breeding by females may generate substantial variance in male reproductive success and could explain the evolution of ornamental colouration. 相似文献
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Akiko Matsumoto-Oda 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1999,46(4):258-266
For female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, the most common mating pattern is opportunistic. In such opportunistic
matings, females copulated promiscuously but not randomly. This study describes female mate choice during 1-year observation
of six females who exhibited regular genital-swelling cycles. During the study period, 169 opportunistic matings and four
restrictive matings were recorded over the course of 51 days. As female estrus progressed, mating frequency and the number
of adult male mating partners increased, although the number of potential mating partners did not change. Criteria of female
choice examined were the direction and consent/rejection of courtship, proximity maintenance, and female grooming. Adult-male
courtships were successful more often than those of adolescent males. During the earlier phase of estrus, females copulated
rather promiscuously with many males. But during the later phase of estrus when the likelihood of conception is expected to
be highest, they copulated repeatedly with high-ranking adult males. There was a positive correlation between female grooming
frequency and mating frequency when the likelihood of conception was greatest. Female chimpanzees are thought to choose high-ranking
males as fathers of their offspring. Moreover, female chimpanzees may adopt one or both of two mating strategies, i.e., a
many-male strategy and a best-male strategy.
Received: 23 November 1998 / Received in revised form: 12 April 1999 / Accepted: 26 April 1999 相似文献
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Peculiar fertilization dynamics, with males releasing sperm in mucous trails lasting several hours, characterize some demersal
spawning fish. The mating system was investigated in a natural population of one of these species: the grass goby Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Pallas, 1814), a large coastal goby inhabiting seagrass meadows in shallow brackish water. Adult males ranged in size from
7.4 to 23 cm total length, but only larger ones were observed to dig and defend a burrow, where they performed parental care
on eggs laid by one to several females. Field observations together with analyses of age, sperm production, trail sperm content
and sperm competition tests indicated the occurrence of alternative male mating tactics, likely the expression of an ontogenetic
gradient. Larger males are older than smaller ones, and while the former are territorial, the latter “sneak” territorial male
spawns. The ejaculate characteristics indicate that grass goby males have functionally polymorphic spawns: in fact sperm trails
of larger males last longer and release fewer sperm than those of smaller males. Sperm production over several days is more
constant in larger than in smaller males, but the total number of sperm released is higher in the latter. The influence of
seminal fluid in the functional intraspecific variability in sperm release in this species is discussed.
Received: 30 December 1999 / Accepted: 31 July 2000 相似文献
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B. L. Kojis 《Marine Biology》1986,91(3):311-318
In contrast to the seasonal gamete and planula production of Acropora (Isopora) palifera on Heron Island reef (Lat. 23° S), populations on Lizard Island reef (Lat. 14° S), sampled in 1979, 1981 and 1983, and Salamaua and Busama reefs (Lat. 7° S), sampled from 1980 to 1983, planulated year-round. Intensive sampling of colonies at Salamaua and Busama showed that gametes ripened at two-month intervals and that up to six cycles of gametes and larvae could be produced by an individual colony. Gametes of only a portion of the population — usually close to 50% — ripened each month. The Salamaua population, on average, produced fewer and smaller planulae than the Heron Island population during each two-monthly reproductive cycle. Hypotheses correlating the annual periodicity of breeding in marine animals with latitudinal variation of temperature were tested. In general, the time of breeding in A. palifera at Heron Island reef is much more restricted than theories based on latitudinal variations of water temperature would predict. It is hypothesized that, in the near subtropical environment of Heron Island reef, this species has evolved a life-history strategy that limits the amount of energy allocated to reproduction and allocates more energy to growth. 相似文献
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Daria Sanna Alberto Addis Francesca Biagi Costantino Motzo Marcella Carcupino Paolo Francalacci 《Marine Biology》2008,153(3):269-275
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used extensively in animals for phylogenetic and population studies but it has been applied
only occasionally to mating systems analysis, where nuclear markers are usually preferred. We used denaturing-high performance
liquid chromatography (D-HPLC) to detect mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms to assess the genetic mating system in Syngnathus abaster. Our study of ten pregnant males, revealed polygyny in 30% of the males, who carried embryos originating from multiple females.
In addition, 30% of the pregnant males carried embryos with the same mitochondrial haplotype. This is not sufficient to demonstrate
polyandry but allows a rapid selection and a reduced sample size for further studies. In conclusion, the proposed technique
is time- and cost-effective, allows the certain identification of polygyny and provides useful information to study polyandry. 相似文献
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The genetic mating system of a sex-role-reversed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle): a molecular inquiry 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Adam G. Jones Gunilla Rosenqvist Anders Berglund John C. Avise 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1999,46(5):357-365
In the pipefish Syngnathus typhle as in other species of Syngnathidae, developing embryos are reared on the male's ventral surface. Although much laboratory research has been directed toward understanding sexual selection in this sex-role-reversed species, few studies have addressed the mating behavior of S. typhle in the wild, and none has capitalized upon the power of molecular genetic assays. Here we present the first direct assessment of the genetic mating system of S. typhle in nature. Novel microsatellite loci were cloned and characterized from this species, and employed to assay entire broods from 30 pregnant, field-captured males. Genetic analysis of 1340 embryos revealed that 1–6 females (mean = 3.1) contributed to each brooded clutch, the highest rate of multiple maternity yet documented in any pipefish. Evidence of multiple mating by females was also detected. Thus, this population of S. typhle displays a polygynandrous mating system, a finding consistent with previous field and laboratory observations. Our results, considered together with similar studies of other syngnathid species, provide preliminary support for the hypothesis that the genetic mating system is related to the evolution of sexual dimorphism in the fish family Syngnathidae. Received: 19 January 1999 / Received in revised form: 15 April 1999 / Accepted: 9 May 1999 相似文献
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Males of the brush-legged wolf spider, Schizocosa ocreata (Araneae: Lycosidae), possess a conspicuous male secondary sexual character: dark pigmentation and tufts of bristles on the
tibiae of their forelegs. We tested several hypotheses relating to the role of this conspicuous trait in sexual selection.
Triad mating experiments suggest that the tufts do not play an obvious role in the operation of sexual selection by either
male competition or female choice, as there were no significant differences in the mating success of intact and experimentally
shaved males. However, females mated more often with males that initiated courtship first, suggesting that capture of a female’s
attention by male signalling may play a critical role. In behavioral experiments that paired a single male with a female in
arenas that allowed both visual and vibratory signal transmission during courtship, female receptivity did not vary significantly
with the presence or absence of tufts. However, experiments that isolated the visual component of communication (by eliminating
vibratory communication) revealed a significant effect of the presence of tufts: females showed receptivity less often to
males with tufts removed. Female response to visual signals was much greater in S. ocreata than in its sibling congener, Schizocosa rovneri, which lacks male tufts. We hypothesize that the tufts serve to increase the efficacy of visual displays of S. ocreata, as vibratory communication is constrained by the complex leaf litter habitat of some populations. Such environmental constraints
may make visual signalling over distance a critical factor for effective courtship communication, which may in turn strongly
influence male fitness.
Received: 30 September 1994/Accepted after revision: 4 August 1995 相似文献