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Mark D. E. Fellowes Steve G. Compton James M. Cook 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1999,46(2):95-102
The populations of many species are structured such that mating is not random and occurs between members of local patches.
When patches are founded by a single female and all matings occur between siblings, brothers may compete with each other for
matings with their sisters. This local mate competition (LMC) selects for a female-biased sex ratio, especially in species
where females have control over offspring sex, as in the parasitic Hymenoptera. Two factors are predicted to decrease the
degree of female bias: (1) an increase in the number of foundress females in the patch and (2) an increase in the fraction
of individuals mating after dispersal from the natal patch. Pollinating fig wasps are well known as classic examples of species
where all matings occur in the local patch. We studied non-pollinating fig wasps, which are more diverse than the pollinating
fig wasps and also provide natural experimental groups of species with different male morphologies that are linked to different
mating structures. In this group of wasps, species with wingless males mate in the local patch (i.e. the fig fruit) while
winged male species mate after dispersal. Species with both kinds of male have a mixture of local and non-local mating. Data
from 44 species show that sex ratios (defined as the proportion of males) are in accordance with theoretical predictions:
wingless male species<wing-dimorphic male species<winged male species. These results are also supported by a formal comparative
analysis that controls for phylogeny. The foundress number is difficult to estimate directly for non-pollinating fig wasps
but a robust indirect method leads to the prediction that foundress number, and hence sex ratio, should increase with the
proportion of patches occupied in a crop. This result is supported strongly across 19 species with wingless males, but not
across 8 species with winged males. The mean sex ratios for species with winged males are not significantly different from
0.5, and the absence of the correlation observed across species with wingless males may reflect weak selection to adjust the
sex ratio in species whose population mating structure tends not to be subdivided. The same relationship is also predicted
to occur within species if individual females adjust their sex ratios facultatively. This final prediction was not supported
by data from a wingless male species, a male wing-dimorphic species or a winged male species.
Received: 27 July 1998 / Received in revised form: 11 January 1999 / Accepted: 16 January 1999 相似文献
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Fisher’s 1930 theory of sex allocation predicts a population-wide 1:1 ratio of parental investment. We tested this prediction in the European beewolf, a sphecid wasp that hunts for honeybees as larval food. Because the method to quantify parental investment is of crucial importance, we compared the suitability of several different investment measures. Female/male cost ratios were determined from a sample and the total investment in sons and daughters was calculated. In addition, the actual number of prey items for sons and daughters was directly determined by excavating nests and counting the cuticle remains of the prey. Though mortality was high (70%), it had only a weak effect on the estimate of the investment ratio. Based on commonly used measures like fresh and dry weight of emerged adults, the investment ratio did not deviate from Fisher’s prediction of equal investment. However, progeny weight considerably underestimates investment in males and investment in large progeny. Measures that reflect the allocation of resources more directly (amount of provisions, brood cell volume) revealed a significant male bias and thus contradicted Fisher’s theory. Three kinds of explanation are discussed. First, non-adaptive explanations are unlikely. Second, from the spectrum of alternative adaptive theories, only models that assume a non-linear relationship between amount of investment and progeny fitness seem to be relevant for the study species. Third, though the number of prey in a brood cell seems to be a rather good measure of parental investment in European beewolves, some problems in measuring parental investment remain. These problems are of broad significance. Received: 17 June 1999 / Received in revised form: 6 July 1999 / Accepted: 11 July 1999 相似文献
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Brood sex ratios, female harem status and resources for nestling provisioning in the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
H. Westerdahl Staffan Bensch Bengt Hansson Dennis Hasselquist Torbjörn von Schantz 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2000,47(5):312-318
The theory of parental investment and brood sex ratio manipulation predicts that parents should invest in the more costly
sex during conditions when resources are abundant. In the polygynous great reed warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus, females of primary harem status have more resources for nestling provisioning than secondary females, because polygynous
males predominantly assist the primary female whereas the secondary female has to feed her young alone. Sons weigh significantly
more than daughters, and are hence likely to be the more costly sex. In the present study, we measured the brood sex ratio
when the chicks were 9 days old, i.e. the fledging sex ratio. As expected from theory, we found that female great reed warblers
of primary status had a higher proportion of sons in their broods than females of lower (secondary) harem status. This pattern
is in accordance with the results from two other species of marsh-nesting polygynous birds, the oriental reed warbler, Acrocephalus orientalis, and the yellow-headed blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. As in the oriental reed warbler, we found that great reed warbler males increased their share of parental care as the proportion
of sons in the brood increased. We did not find any difference in fitness of sons and daughters raised in primary and secondary
nests. The occurrence of adaptive sex ratio manipulations in birds has been questioned, and it is therefore important that
three studies of polygynous bird species, including our own, have demonstrated the same pattern of a male-biased offspring
sex ratio in primary compared with secondary nests.
Received: 1 June 1999 / Received in revised form: 10 January 2000 / Accepted: 12 February 2000 相似文献
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Sex ratios were bimodally distributed in a population of the monogynous and monandrous ant Leptothorax nylanderi during each of 3 study years. The population-wide investment ratios suggested worker control of sex allocation. Nest-level
variation in the proportional investment in virgin queens was not affected by the presence or absence of a queen and only
slightly by collecting year, but was correlated with nest size, total sexual investment and, unexpectedly, with differences
in nestmate relatedness: small, low-investment nests and nests with several worker lineages produced male-biased sex ratios.
Colonies containing several worker lineages arise from usurpation of mature colonies by unrelated founding queens and the
fusion of unrelated colonies under strong nest site limitation. In contrast to facultatively polygynous and polyandrous species
of social insects, where workers can maximize their inclusive fitness by adjusting sex ratios according to the degree of relatedness
asymmetry, workers in mixed colonies of L. nylanderi do not benefit from manipulating sex allocation, as here relatedness asymmetries appear to be the same as in homogeneous
colonies.
Received: 7 December 1999 / Received in revised form: 29 February 2000 / Accepted: 13 March 2000 相似文献
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Birth sex ratios were examined for ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Duke University Primate Center. This population provides a long-term database of births under a variety of demographic
and management conditions, including two semi-freeranging groups between which males transfer freely and females defend stable
territorial boundaries. We examined three hypotheses usually considered in studies of primate sex ratio bias. The Trivers-Willard
hypothesis predicts that dominant females produce males, local resource competition at the population level (LRC-population)
predicts that the dispersing sex (males) will be overproduced in dense populations, and local resource competition among individuals
(LRC-individual) predicts that dominant females overproduce the philopatric sex (females). We also examined a fourth hypothesis,
local resource enhancement (LRE), which is usually subsumed under LRC-individual in studies of primate sex ratio evolution.
LRE predicts that under certain conditions, females will produce the sex that provides later cooperative benefits, such as
alliance support for within- or between-group competition. Our data provide support for LRE: females overproduce daughters
given prospects of new group formation, either through group fission or threatened expulsion of young mothers. Behavioral
data from Duke and also wild populations show that daughters serve mothers as important allies in this context and LRE effects
also have been documented in other mammals that experience similar group histories. Nonsignificant trends in the data supported
the LRC-population hypothesis, and we suggest that LRC interacts with LRE to explain offspring sex ratios in ringtailed lemurs.
Received: 27 August 1999 / Received in revised form: 6 March 2000 / Accepted: 18 March 2000 相似文献
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Apostolos Kapranas P. Pacheco L. D. Forster J. G. Morse R. F. Luck 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(6):901-912
We examined whether several facultatively gregarious encyrtid (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) endoparasitoids of brown soft scale,
Coccus hesperidum L., manifest precise sex allocation under field conditions. Metaphycus luteolus (Timberlake), Metaphycus angustifrons (Compere), Metaphycus stanleyi (Compere), and Microterys nietneri (Motshulsky) evince brood sex ratios that are female-biased and extremely precise (low variance in the number of sons per
host). Typically, this sex allocation pattern is attributed to extreme local mate competition (LMC) in which only one foundress
exploits a patch of hosts and mating occurs mostly between her offspring. However, such a pattern of sex allocation was not
detected for Metaphycus helvolus (Compere). Also, a large proportion of the broods in all five species contained only daughters; thus, an excess of male-only
broods was expected if unmated females (i.e., females that can produce only sons) contribute offspring before mating. All-male
broods were rare in our samples. This finding coupled with the life history characteristics of these wasps, such as the exploitation
of aggregated hosts and the long life span and mobility of males, suggest that nonlocal mating is frequent. Our empirical
work suggests that it is advantageous to allocate precise sex ratios in cases in which mating opportunities for males are
not restricted to their natal host and/or when multiple foundresses exploit large patches of hosts. Limited theoretical work
also supports this prediction but more detailed studies of this taxon’s mating structure and other life history characteristics
are necessary to understand their sex allocation decisions. 相似文献
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B. H. King 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2000,48(4):316-320
In the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius more offspring and a greater proportion of daughters were oviposited in, and emerged from 0-day-old versus 3-day-old hosts.
Offspring that developed on the younger hosts (1) were larger at adulthood, (2) developed more quickly, (3) had higher survivorship
to adulthood, and (4) were more often able to chew their way out of the host. Sons and daughters did not differ in how host
age affected their size, development rate, or survivorship. The greater proportion of daughters from the younger hosts may
be adaptive, as described by the host quality model (a variant of the Trivers and Willard hypothesis). It is adaptive if greater
size or more rapid development has a more positive effect on a daughter’s than a son’s fitness and the positive effect is
large enough to compensate for sons being trapped disproportionately to daughters in the older hosts. Despite greater success
at drilling the younger hosts, mothers did not try to drill them sooner or more often. Having previously oviposited on the
older rather than the younger hosts had no detrimental effect on the mother’s subsequent longevity or offspring production.
Received: 8 March 2000 / Revised: 9 June 2000 / Accepted: 24 June 2000 相似文献
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Maternal investment in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): reproductive costs and consequences of raising sons 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Maternal investment in offspring is expected to vary according to offspring sex when the reproductive success of the progeny
is a function of differential levels of parental expenditure. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of rhesus macaques
to determine whether variation in male progeny production, measured with both DNA fingerprinting and short tandem repeat marker
typing, could be traced back to patterns of maternal investment. Males weigh significantly more than females at birth, despite
an absence of sex differences in gestation length. Size dimorphism increases during infancy, with maternal rank associated
with son’s, but not daughter’s, weight at the end of the period of maternal investment. Son’s, but not daughter’s, weight
at 1 year of age is significantly correlated with adult weight, and male, but not female, weight accounts for a portion of
the variance in reproductive success. Variance in annual offspring output was three- to fourfold higher in males than in females.
We suggest that energetic costs of rearing sons could be buffered by fetal delivery of testosterone to the mother, which is
aromatized to estrogen and fosters fat accumulation during gestation. We conclude that maternal investment is only slightly
greater in sons than in daughters, with mothers endowing sons with extra resources because son, but not daughter, mass has
ramifications for offspring sirehood. However, male reproductive tactics supersede maternal investment patterns as fundamental
regulators of male fitness.
Received: 23 July 1999 / Received in revised form: 23 February 2000 / Accepted: 13 March 2000 相似文献
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Parental investment, adult sex ratios, and sexual selection in a socially monogamous seabird 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Although most birds are monogamous, theory predicts that greater female parental investment and female-biased adult sex ratios
will lower the polygyny threshold. This should result in polygynous mating, unless obligate biparental care or the spatial
and temporal distribution of fertilizable females constrains a male’s ability to take advantage of a lowered polygyny threshold.
Here we present data on the extent of male sexually dimorphic plumage, adult sex ratios and breeding season synchrony in three
populations of a socially monogamous seabird, the brown booby Sula leucogaster. For one of these populations, San Pedro Mártir Island, we also present data on differences in male and female parental investment,
mortality and probability of pairing. The extent of plumage dimorphism varied among populations. Sex ratios were female biased in all populations. On San Pedro
Mártir Island, parental investment was female biased, females failed more often than males to find a mate, but there was no
polygyny. We suggest that on San Pedro Mártir: (1) a period of obligate biparental care coupled with a relatively synchronous
breeding season constrained the ability of males to take advantage of a high environmental polygamy potential and (2) the
resulting socially monogamous mating system, in combination with the female-biased adult sex ratio, caused females to be limited
by the availability of males despite their greater parental investment.
Received: 18 November 1999 / Accepted: 24 January 2000 相似文献
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The local resource enhancement (LRE) model predicts that in cooperatively breeding species, sex ratios will be biased in favor
of the more helpful sex. In this study, we assess the assumptions underlying the LRE model in a population of cooperatively
breeding wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Northern Botswana monitored over a 15-year period. In this population, litter size and pup survival to 1 year are strongly
affected by pack size and the breeding female’s age, but adult males have a stronger and more linear effect on females’ reproductive
performance than do adult females. This asymmetry in the benefits derived from male and female helpers is reflected in male-biased
sex ratios in litters at the time pups emerge from the den. Sex ratio biases are most pronounced in the litters of the youngest
mothers who live in significantly smaller packs than older females. The presence of potential rivals for the dominant female’s
position depresses pup production at the time of emergence, suggesting that competition among females for breeding positions
may also contribute to the selective forces affecting birth sex ratios. 相似文献
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Wendt Müller Ellen Kalmbach Corine M. Eising Ton G. G. Groothuis Cor Dijkstra 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2005,59(2):313-320
In sexually size dimorphic species, individuals of the larger sex often suffer from enhanced mortality during the nestling period. This has been attributed to higher nutritional requirements of the larger sex, which may render this sex more vulnerable to adverse food conditions. However, sex-biased mortality might not exclusively depend on the differences in food demand but also on other phenotypic differences, e.g., in competitiveness. Interference competition between the sexes and position in the laying sequence in particular may be essential components contributing to biased mortality.By creating synchronously-hatched unisex broods in the sexually size dimorphic black-headed gull, we specifically tested the effect of sex-specific food demand by excluding interference competition between the sexes as well as hatching asynchrony. To test the effect of egg quality, which varies with the position in the laying sequence, we composed each nest of chicks from eggs of all different positions in the laying sequence.All-male nests showed significantly enhanced mortality compared to all-female nests from the beginning of the development of the sexual size dimorphism onwards. This underlines the role of a higher food demand in biased mortality of the larger sex.In males but not females, asymptotic body mass and skeletal size were negatively associated with position in the laying sequence, while survival was not affected by position. As a consequence, sexual size dimorphism at the end of the nestling period was less pronounced compared to the natural situation. These data show that, although male growth is more sensitive to a decrease in egg quality, the higher mortality of last hatched chicks in natural nests is mainly due to hatching asynchrony and egg size but not egg content. 相似文献
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We investigated the fledging probability of oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus, chicks as a function of hatching order, brood size, territory quality and food availability. Sibling dominance was related
to the hatching order in both low- (’leapfrogs’) and high-quality (’residents’) territories. Differences in hatchling mass
might have aided the establishment of a dominance hierarchy, since breeders produced small late eggs and hatchlings. These
mass differences were most pronounced in leapfrogs, and in large broods in years with lower food availability (’poor’ years).
Late hatchlings fledged less often and with lower body masses compared to early hatchlings in all situations. Leapfrogs produced
smaller broods and hatched their broods more asynchronously in poor years than leapfrogs breeding in years with more available
food (’good’ years) and residents breeding in both poor and good years. Large brood sizes resulted in lower survival of hatchlings
in poor years. These results favour the ’brood reduction’ hypothesis. However, contrary to the expectations of this hypothesis,
hatching order also affected fledging success in residents. Moreover, large brood size resulted in higher survival of hatchlings
in good years, particularly in residents. Thus, although large broods experienced losses due to sibling competition in some
years, they nevertheless consistently produced more fledglings per brood in all years, both as leapfrogs and residents. We
believe this effect is due to parental quality correlating with initial brood size. Most leapfrogs, at best, fledged one chick
successfully each year, losing chicks due to starvation. Nevertheless, leapfrog broods were reduced in size after hatching
significantly less quickly than resident broods. These results suggest that breeders lay and hatch insurance eggs to compensate
for unpredictable losses due to the high predation rates on both nests (ca 50%) and chicks (ca 90%), in accordance with the
’nest failure’ hypothesis.
Received: 14 February 2000 / Revised: 27 September 2000 / Accepted: 10 June 2000 相似文献
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R. G. Nager P. Monaghan D. C. Houston M. Genovart 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2000,48(6):452-457
Empirical evidence is growing that the offspring sex ratio in birds can be biased in relation to the body condition of parents
during breeding. The sex ratio bias may come about because (1) the actual production of the two sexes may be skewed and/or
(2) there may be a sex bias in early nestling mortality contingent on parental condition. By manipulating parental condition
and giving them a control brood to rear, thereby eliminating effects operating via the eggs, we examined the extent to which
parental condition influences the post-hatching survival of male and female lesser black-backed gulls, Larus fuscus. We found that the pre-fledging survival of male chicks was strongly reduced in all-male broods reared by parents in poor
condition. Pre-fledging survival of female chicks was, however, unaffected by parental condition or brood sex composition.
Thus, independently of any production biases, sex differences in nestling mortality alone can bias the offspring sex ratio
at fledging in relation to the prevailing rearing conditions. In other studies on gulls we have, however, also shown that
females in poor condition at laying preferentially produce female eggs. Clearly a bias in fledging sex ratio can occur within
the same species due to a combination of differential production and differential post-laying mortality; the latter can involve
a differential effect of poor egg quality on male and female offspring, differential effects of brood sex composition on their
survival and a difference in the capacity of parents to rear males and females. All of these processes need to be taken into
account in attempting to understand offspring sex ratios.
Received: 15 February 2000 / Revised: 7 August 2000 / Accepted: 26 August 2000 相似文献
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BriAnne Addison Alexander S. Kitaysky J. Mark Hipfner 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,63(1):135-141
Sex allocation theory posits that mothers should preferentially invest in sons when environmental conditions are favorable
for breeding, their mates are of high quality, or they are in good body condition. We tested these three hypotheses in rhinoceros
auklets (Cerorhinca monocerata), monomorphic seabirds that lay a single-egg clutch, in 2 years that differed in environmental conditions for breeding. Results
supported the environment and mate quality hypotheses, but these effects were interactive: offspring sex was independent of
paternal traits in the poor year for breeding, while females mated to larger and more ornamented males reared more sons in
the better year. Conversely, offspring sex was unrelated to female condition, as indexed by hatching date. We propose that
good rearing conditions enable females to rear sons possessing the desirable phenotypic attributes of their mates. Results
also supported two critical assumptions of sex allocation theory: (1) dimorphism in offspring condition at independence: daughters
fledged with higher baseline levels of corticosterone than sons and (2) differential costs of rearing sons versus daughters:
mothers rearing sons when environmental conditions were poor completed parental care in poorer condition than mothers rearing
daughters in the same year and mothers rearing either sex when conditions were better. These novel results may help to explain
the disparate results of previous studies of avian sex allocation. 相似文献
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In anarchistic honey-bee colonies, many workers’ sons are reared despite the presence of the queen. Worker-laid eggs are normally
eaten by other workers in queenright colonies. Workers are thought to discriminate between queen-laid and worker-laid eggs
by the presence or absence of a queen-produced egg-marking pheromone. This study compared the survival of three classes of
eggs (worker-laid eggs from anarchistic colonies, worker-laid eggs from non-anarchistic queenless colonies, and queen-laid
eggs) in both queenright normal colonies and queenright anarchistic colonies, in order to test the hypothesis that anarchistic
workers evade policing by laying more acceptable eggs. As expected, few worker-laid eggs from non-anarchistic colonies survived
more than 2 h. In contrast, worker-laid eggs from anarchistic colonies had much greater acceptability, which in some trials
equalled the acceptability of queen-laid eggs. Anarchistic colonies were generally less discriminatory than normal queenright
colonies towards worker-laid eggs, whether these originated from anarchistic colonies or normal queenless colonies. This indicates
that the egg-removal aspect of the anarchistic syndrome involves both worker laying of eggs with greater acceptability and
reduced discriminatory behaviour of policing workers.
Received: 19 July 1999 / Received in revised form: 3 November 1999 / Accepted: 20 November 1999 相似文献
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In monogamous species, females often choose between males according to the quality of the territories they defend, but the
extent to which females themselves contribute to territory defence is frequently underestimated. Here we test for differences
in male and female roles during paired scent-marking bouts, a key component of territorial defence, in a monogamous antelope.
In two populations (Kenya, Zimbabwe) of klipspringer, Oreotragus oreotragus, both males and females usually scent-marked at the same site, but there were significant differences between sexes in terms
of investment within bouts. Females initiated most bouts, thus dictating the marking strategy of the pair. Males initiated
relatively few bouts, but deposited more scent marks per bout than females and were usually the last to scent-mark before
leaving the site; they marked on the same branches as the female and thus overmarked her scent. Both sexes deposited more
marks during paired than solo visits. Immediately preceding and following scent-marking bouts, males approached females and
females left males more often than expected. Female scent-marking rates were higher when they were receptive than at other
times, and this increase was matched by elevated marking rates of males. Females may increase marking rates when they are
receptive in order to test the quality of their mate or to incite male competition. However, these ideas are unlikely to explain
female scent-marking behaviour outside the mating season, which appears to be related primarily to territorial defence. We
suggest that these differences in investment in scent-marking bouts are consistent with predictions that females may be autonomously
territorial and that overmarking of female scent by males is a form of mate-guarding.
Received: 17 November 1999 / Received in revised form: 24 February 2000 / Accepted: 13 March 2000 相似文献