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Fleur E. Champion de Crespigny Nina Wedell 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(8):1229-1235
The maternally inherited bacterium Wolbachia pipientis generates strong reproductive incompatibilities between uninfected females and infected males (cytoplasmic incompatibility),
significantly reducing both female and male reproductive success. Such fitness costs are thought to place selective pressure
on hosts to evolve pre-copulatory preferences for mating with compatible mates, thereby enabling them to avoid the reproductive
incompatibilities associated with Wolbachia. Therefore, uninfected females are predicted to prefer mating with uninfected males, whereas infected males are predicted
to prefer mating with infected females. Despite these predictions, previous investigations of pre-copulatory mate preferences
in Wolbachia-manipulated Drosophila have not found evidence of female preference for uninfected or compatible males. However, none of these studies utilised
a design where focal individuals are provided with a simple choice in a relatively non-competitive situation. We examined
both female and male pre-copulatory mate preference based on mate infection status in Drosophila simulans and D. melanogaster using simple choice assays involving between 30–50 replicates per treatment. Although we found no evidence of female pre-copulatory
mate preferences in either species, male D. simulans exhibited some preference for mating with females of the same infection status. However, this preference was not evident
when we repeated the experiment to confirm this finding. Consequently, we conclude that neither male nor female D. melanogaster and D. simulans exhibit significant Wolbachia-associated pre-copulatory mate preferences. 相似文献
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Myron Charles Baker 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1983,12(4):309-315
Summary Female Nuttall's White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys nuttalli) were tested in a laboratory experiment to determine their response to stimulation by songs from their natal dialect (Clear) and by songs from three different alien dialects (Fig. 1). The greatest number of copulation solicitation displays and amount of locomotor activity were caused by songs of the subject's natal dialect (Clear); the next most potent stimulus was the contiguously adjacent dialect (Buzzy); the least effective stimuli were songs from a dialect 25 km distant (McClure), representing the same non-migratory subspecies, and a dialect 1,900 km distant (Sand Creek), representing a migratory montane subspecies of White-crowned Sparrow (Figs. 2–4).These results constitute a test of a deduction made from the assortative mating theory and suggest that female White-crowned Sparrows find male song of their natal dialect sexually more stimulating. Thus, speculating about the natural circumstances, females given an unrestricted choice would be expected to mate with males from their natal dialect region. 相似文献
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Sexual selection via female choice can afford preferred males comparably higher mating success than those males that lack preferred traits. In addition, many models of sexual selection assume that both male traits and female preferences are heritable. In this study we test whether females of the poeciliid fish, Heterandria formosa, have repeatable pre-copulatory preferences for larger males. We also test whether female pre-copulatory preferences are always reliable indicators of male mating success. When given a choice between a large and a small male, females prefer larger males, and the repeatability of this preference is high. Although there are no overall differences in male mating success between large and small males, large males have a higher mating success when they are the first to mate than when they are the second to mate. Likewise, preferred males also have higher mating success when they are the first to mate than when they mate second. Therefore, the repeatable female preferences observed in this study only predict male mating success when the preferred male mates first. These results illustrate that even significantly repeatable female preferences do not translate into male mating success, which is an assumption of many examinations of the importance of female choice in sexual selection. 相似文献
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Recent studies have suggested that conflicts of interests between the sexes may lead to variation in copulation behavior among pairs. We examined differences in the rate and timing of copulation solicitations and copulations among females of different mating status in the facultatively polygynous starling in an attempt to explain why females copulate repeatedly with their mate. All within-pair copulations were female-solicited indicating that females control copulations in the starling. Before egg laying, females solicited copulations at a high rate (usually more than 2 per hour). In contrast to most other species studied so far, females continued to solicit copulations throughout the egg laying period, and also solicited after egg laying (the latest solicitation occurred when the nestlings were 4 days old). Primary females solicited more copulations than monogamous females both during and after the fertile period. Many copulation solicitations of primary females occurred at the nestbox where their male was singing to obtain an extra female. Both primary and secondary females solicited more copulations after the egg-laying period than monogamous females. A large proportion of female copulation solicitations was refused by the male partner: female solicitation resulted in more male refusals in primary females than in monogamous females. Primary females were more likely to be chased aggressively when they solicited a copulation than monogamous females; most aggressive chases occurred when primary females flew towards their male to solicit copulation when he was singing at another nestbox. Overall, our results demonstrate that there is a conflict over copulation between males and females in polygynous pairs. The conflict presumably relates to the cost of sharing male parental investment: females use copulation solicitation behavior to interrupt their singing males apparently in an attempt to prevent them from becoming polygynous. We present the first empirical evidence that female songbirds use copulation solicitation behavior as a form of mate guarding, often in a non-reproductive context. We did not find a positive relationship between copulation rate during the fertile period and the amount of male parental care as is predicted by the paternity confidence hypothesis. 相似文献
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The advertisement call of frogs and toads is an example of multiple message signal because different acoustic properties encode
different kinds of biologically significant information. In the Italian treefrog, Hyla intermedia, pulse rate and frequency have been found to be under stabilizing female preferences and to encode information important
for mate recognition, whereas the number of calls per call group have been found to be under directional preferences and,
thus, to be important for mate quality assessment. In this study, we investigate preferences for calls that differ simultaneously
in frequency, pulse rate, and number of calls per call group, and we ask how these properties interact with each other in
influencing female mating decisions. Results of two-choice phonotaxis experiments provide no evidence to support the hypothesis
that females process multi-attribute signals in a hierarchical way. In contrast, the pattern of preferences is consistent
with the ‘preference function’ hypothesis, that is, with the hypothesis that females rank signals along an ordinal scale of
values and choose accordingly. Pulse rate and frequency influence mating preferences more than does the number of calls per
call group. The interaction between pulse rate and frequency is not additive but multiplicative: small differences in either
pulse rate or frequency that, alone, have no effects on female choice, interact synergistically so that their combination
has strong influence on female preferences. A preference repeatability test shows strong among-female differences in preference
for multi-attribute signals. We suggest that this result reveals not only a variation in attribute values among females, but
also a variation in the way females weight and combine attribute values into a single preference score. 相似文献
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Nathan W. Bailey 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(12):2269-2278
Social experience can elicit phenotypically plastic changes in mate choice, but little is known about the degree to which
social information from one modality can influence mating decisions based on information from a different modality. I used
the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus to test whether experience of chemical cues mimicking a high density of sexually mature males causes changes in mate choice
based on acoustic signals. T. oceanicus males produce long-range calling songs to attract females for mating, but they also produce waxy, non-volatile hydrocarbons
on their cuticle (CHCs) which, when deposited on a substrate, can be detected by females and may provide demographic information.
I manipulated female experience of substrate-bound male CHCs and then performed acoustic mate choice trials. When CHCs were
present on the substrate during trials, females showed greater motivation to respond to male calling song. This effect diminished
with repeated exposure to male songs, demonstrating that the importance of olfactory cues in altering acoustic mate choice
decreased with increasing exposure to acoustic signals. However, the temporal nature of CHC experience mattered: previous
experience of CHCs did not alter subsequent female choice for male calling song traits. Exposure to male song increased the
threshold of mate acceptance over time, and individuals varied considerably in overall levels of responsiveness. Taken together,
the results demonstrate that mate choice is dependent on social context mediated by multiple modalities in T. oceanicus, but they do not support the idea that prior experience of social cues in one modality necessarily influences later mating
decisions based on other signalling modalities. 相似文献
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Natasha Tigreros Monica A. Mowery Sara M. Lewis 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2014,68(9):1539-1547
While the phenomenon of male mate choice has attracted considerable attention in the last two decades, whether this sexual selection mechanism could drive the evolution of female ornaments remains poorly understood. Here, we used experimental manipulation of female wing coloration to investigate male mate choice in Pieris rapae, a gift-giving butterfly. Further, we tested whether males’ nutritional status influenced their mating preferences by subjecting larvae to short periods of starvation. We found that males showed significantly more mating approaches toward control females with more colorful wings (higher pteridine content), and that this preference was strongest in low-nutrition males. Additionally, a study of field-collected females revealed that pteridine-based wing coloration was positively correlated with female egg load, which suggests such ornaments may signal female quality. Pteridine-based ornaments are widespread in nature, however their potential as honest signals in male mate choice remains largely unexplored. This work furthers our understanding of how male mate choice and female ornamentation may evolve in species whose mating systems include nutritional nuptial gifts. 相似文献
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Male–male competition has historically been considered the major force driving sexual selection. However, female choice and inter-sexual conflict are increasingly recognized as important influences affecting differential mating and reproductive success. Many females exhibit preferences for particular males; however, male strategies may conflict with females’ ability to obtain their mate preferences. To influence paternity, females must affect both (1) whether or not sexual interactions occur, particularly during the periovulatory period (POP) and (2) the outcome of sexual interactions. This study focuses on the effectiveness of female choice in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). Over 2,600 h of data were collected on two habituated chimpanzee communities in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. Female mate preferences were measured by quantifying proceptive and resistance behavior toward males in both the periovulatory period and non-POP phases of estrus. The efficacy of female preference was measured both (1) by measuring success rates of female proceptivity and resistance behaviors and (2) by determining how well measures of female mate preference (proceptivity and resistance rates) predict male mating success. Though male chimpanzees are clearly dominant to females, the results indicate that females could effectively resist male solicitations and, in most cases, unwanted copulations were averted. Both female proceptivity and resistance rates correlate (positively and inversely, respectively) with male mating success in POP. Outside POP, female proceptivity rates corresponded with male mating success, but resistance rates did not. Males (irrespective of rank) that were preferred by females obtained higher mating success compared to other males during the POP, suggesting that females were effective in their mate choice and that, despite clear male dominance, female choice influences paternity in wild chimpanzees. 相似文献
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Kathrin P. Lampert Ximena E. Bernal A. Stanley Rand Ulrich G. Mueller Michael J. Ryan 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,59(6):796-804
In most sexually reproducing animals, the behavior of one or both sexes during courtship critically influences the success
at mating of the opposite sex. This behavior is often interpreted as “mate choice,” and there is great interest in why such
choices are exercised. The explanation for the evolution of mate choice that has received the most attention and generated
the most controversy is based on assumed genetic effects. In this study, we investigated whether female túngara frogs, which
choose mates based on acoustic cues, have a preference for genetically less related males. Specifically, we determine if there
is disassortive mating based on microsatellite markers, if there is information in the advertisement call that could be used
to assess genetic similarity, and if females exhibit acoustic-based mating preferences that would promote choice for genetic
diversity. Using seven microsatellite markers, we found no correlation of male call similarity and male genetic relatedness.
Female choice experiments showed no female preference for calls of less related males, and there was no evidence for inbreeding
avoidance in the field. Our results do not support the hypothesis of mate choice based on information about genetic relatedness
conveyed by acoustic signals in túngara frogs. 相似文献
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Summary The loud and elaborate songs of male songbirds are throught to serve in territorial defense and to stimulate reproductive behavior in the female. We report here that in contrast to several other species, song alone is inadequate to induce sexual (lordosis) behavior in female indigo and lazuli buntings (Passerina cyanea and P. amoena); they require a more elaborate stimulus configuration to develop the full expression of sexual receptivity as indicated by a stereotyped copulation solicitation display. A live male must be present near the female, singing must ensue, and in addition a second and unique vocal utterance must be heard by the female; this is a soft buzzy-sounding vocalization, audible for no more than a few meters, not recognized previously as a critical arousal signal of the male songbird repertoire. Females also utter similar soft sounds in an intimate vocal exchange with the male leading to solicitation of copulation. 相似文献
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Even though females prefer particular components of a male display, their preferences may not be expressed during mate choice. Here, we quantified female preference patterns in the frog Crinia georgiana for call rate, pulse number and dominant frequency using two-speaker trials. Females typically chose signals emitted at a higher rate, with more pulses (when variation was extreme) and with an average dominant frequency. The results for pulse number and call rate agree with a previous field study which found that these two call components explained significant variation in male mating success. In contrast, the strong preferences for average dominant frequencies detected here disagree with the previous field study which failed to find any relationship between dominant frequency and male mating success. To explain the discrepancy we investigated whether the patterns of female preference for dominant frequency changed when another property, call rate, was varied simultaneously. Most females chose the call with an average dominant frequency when offered a choice between a call with an average dominant frequency and call rate or a non-average dominant frequency (±2 SD) and high call rate. When the differences in dominant frequency were reduced (±1 SD), females showed no clear preference for either signal. Accordingly, female preference patterns for one call component can vary with the expression of another. These results do not explain why dominant frequency did not account for any variation in male mating success under field conditions.Communicated by T. Beschlitz 相似文献
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Rindy C. Anderson Susan Peters Stephen Nowicki 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2014,68(3):437-447
A growing number of studies show that learning about male mating signals can shape the way females discriminate among males and may influence the evolution of both female preferences and the male traits under selection. Female songbirds commonly prefer local songs over foreign songs from a different population. In some species, however, the extent of variation among songs sung by different males within a population is as great as the variation observed between populations, raising the question of how females are able to discriminate local from foreign songs. Here, we report that laboratory-reared female swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana) not only show a preference for the particular song types with which they were tutored as compared with both foreign songs and unfamiliar local songs but also show preference for unfamiliar local songs over unfamiliar foreign songs. An acoustic analysis comparing tutor songs and those presented as unfamiliar local and foreign songs suggests that female swamp sparrows might be attuned to the specifics of local note phonology when assessing the attractiveness of unfamiliar songs. Our results demonstrate that early auditory experience influences response to geographic song variation in female swamp sparrows, and suggest the possibility that female songbirds may generalize what they learn from songs early in life to novel songs heard in adulthood. Additional work is needed to evaluate the contribution of unlearned predispositions for local song. 相似文献
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Joanna P. Y. Chan Pei Rong Lau Ai Jie Tham Daiqin Li 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(5):639-646
In experiments that comprised of three phases (fight, choice, and mating) under “seen” and “unseen” conditions, we examined
the effects of the outcomes of male–male contests and female eavesdropping on female mate choice and male mating success in
the fighting spider, Thiania bhamoensis (Salticidae). The results revealed female eavesdropping on agonistic interactions. Females that had watched an aggressive
interaction showed no distinctive preference for the winner over the loser, but they preferred the loser when they had not
observed a fight. Winners, however, achieved a greater mating success than did losers during the mating phase. Gaining access
to females was based on the insistence of the winners in courtship in terms of the number of quivers, rather than on the fighting
behavior of the males. Hence, the outcome of male–male contests may not be an important determinant of a male’s mating success
in T. bhamoensis. Instead, courtship display plays an important role in determining the success of male mating in this species. This study
also suggests that female mate preference may not be a good indicator of eventual female mate choice and male mating success.
Thus, a causal relationship between female mate preference and male mating success cannot be inferred.
Joanna P. Y. Chan, Pei Rong Lau, and Ai Jie Tham contributed equally. 相似文献
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Engelhardt A Fischer J Neumann C Pfeifer JB Heistermann M 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2012,66(1):121-134
Primates are unusual in that many females display sexual signals, such as sex skin swellings/colorations and copulation calls,
without any sex role reversal. The adaptive function of these signals remains largely unclear, although it has been suggested
that they provide males with information on female reproductive status. For sex skin swellings, there is increasing evidence
that they represent a graded signal indicating the probability of ovulation. Data on the functional significance of copulation
calls are much scarcer. To clarify the information content of such calls, we recorded copulation calls in wild long-tailed
macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and analysed the structure of these calls during the ovarian cycle. Specifically, we correlated selected call parameters
with the female oestrogen to progestogen ratio (obtained from faecal samples), which are known to be elevated during the female's
fertile phase. In addition, we ran a general linear mixed model for these call parameters, testing factors (cycle phase, occurrence/absence
of ejaculation, male dominance status, occurrence/absence of mate guarding) which potentially influence female copulation
calls in primates. Our results show that copulation calls of female long-tailed macaques signal mating outcome and rank of
the mating partner, but not female reproductive status. They also show for the first time on primates that copulation calls
can convey information on whether a female is mate guarded or not. We suspect that the function of these calls is manipulation
of male mating and mate-guarding behaviour and that in this way the degree of sperm competition and ultimately male reproductive
success is influenced. 相似文献
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In most mating systems, males and females are commonly within signalling and receiving distance of conspecifics during courtship and mating activities. Although it is well known that females who observe sexual interactions between conspecifics will use public information obtained from these interactions when making their own mating decisions, much less is known about whether males use this type of information in making mating decisions. We used the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) to test whether males use public information to (i) copy the apparent mate choice of another male and (ii) modify their mating preference for a given female in the presence of one or two sexual rivals (potential copiers). We show that males use public information to copy the mate choice of other males and that males alter their mating preferences in response to the presence of an audience of sexual rivals, but find no evidence of a stronger audience effect when the number of sexual rivals increases. Collectively, these results indicate that males pay attention to their immediate social environment in making mating decisions and suggest that they avoid having another male copy their mate choice by weakening or even reversing their initial mating preference in the presence of eavesdropping male sexual competitors. Our findings highlight the importance of social context and public information in male mate-choice decisions and have implications for the evolution of male mating preferences and of social information use in populations. 相似文献
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Martin N. Muller Melissa Emery Thompson Sonya M. Kahlenberg Richard W. Wrangham 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2011,65(5):921-933
The extent to which active female mating preferences influence male reproductive success in mammals is unclear, particularly
for promiscuously breeding species like chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Previous studies from multiple long-term study sites have shown that female chimpanzees mate more restrictively around
ovulation, and this has been taken as evidence for female choice. However, none of these studies rigorously evaluated the
alternative hypothesis that restrictive mating results not from unconstrained choice, but in response to coercive mate guarding,
in which males use punishment and intimidation to reduce female promiscuity and promote their own mating interests. Nor did
they consider evidence for the potential genetic or phenotypic benefits that females might be choosing. Using 11 years of
data from the Kanyawara community in Kibale National Park, Uganda, we previously demonstrated that males achieve elevated
mating success with those females toward whom they direct high levels of aggression. Here we extend those findings to show
that even female copulatory approaches, which have previously been attributed to female choice, are correlated with male aggression.
Specifically, individual females at our site initiated periovulatory copulations most frequently with the males who were most
aggressive toward them throughout their cycles. Those males showed high rates of aggression toward females throughout estrus,
despite achieving high copulation rates, demonstrating a continuing conflict of interest over the exclusivity of mating access.
Because sexual coercion is potentially widespread in primates and other mammals, our results stress the importance of considering
the influence of male aggression in studies of female choice. 相似文献
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William A. Searcy 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1984,14(4):281-286
Summary Captive female song sparrows (Melospiza melodia), after treatment with estradiol, perform copulation solicitation displays when presented with songs of conspecific males. Females respond more strongly to eight song types than to four, and to sixteen song types than to eight. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that female song sparrows prefer large repertoires, rather than preferring normal or natural repertoire sizes (5 to 13 song types).The results with captive females might be taken to imply that females in the field prefer as mates those males with the largest repertoire sizes. This hypothesis was tested by observing pairing in a field population. In each of 2 years, there was no significant correlation between male repertoire size and date of initial pair formation. Furthermore, there was no correlation between repertoire size and the speed with which a second mate was acquired after removal of the first. It is concluded that repertoire size does not have an important influence on female choice of mates in song sparrows. 相似文献
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K. A. Spencer J. H. Wimpenny K. L. Buchanan P. G. Lovell A. R. Goldsmith C. K. Catchpole 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2005,58(4):423-428
Developmental stress has recently been shown to have adverse effects upon adult male song structure in birds, which may well act as an honest signal of male quality to discriminating females. However, it still remains to be shown if females can discriminate between the songs of stressed and non-stressed males. Here we use a novel experimental design using an active choice paradigm to investigate preferences in captive female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Nine females were exposed to ten pairs of songs by previously stressed and non-stressed birds that had learned their song from the same tutor. Song pairs differed significantly in terms of song complexity, with songs of stressed males exhibiting lower numbers of syllables and fewer different syllables in a phrase. Song rate and peak frequency did not differ between stressed and non-stressed males. Females showed a significant preference for non-stressed songs in terms of directed perching activity and time spent on perches. Our results therefore indicate that developmental stress affects not only the structure of male song, but that such structural differences are biologically relevant to female mate choice decisions. 相似文献
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Recent theory and empirical work suggests that there may be variation among females in mate preferences that is adaptive.
One of the possible mechanisms maintaining variability in preferences and preferred traits is that the benefits of mate choice
may depend on compatibility with potential mating partners. We examined fitness consequences of mate choice in a species of
fish, the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus with a special focus on mate compatibility. Females were given the opportunity to establish their mate preferences in a dichotomous
mate choice experiment. This information was then applied by mating the focal or control female with either the preferred
or the non-preferred male. The parental performance of the males of these four mating combinations was then measured. In a
separate experiment, we assessed the female differential allocation by determining the residual gonad weight of spawned females
as a measure of the proportion of eggs spawned. We also estimated the amount of filial cannibalism separately for both sexes.
Our results show that preferred males provided benefits in the form of an increased number of hatching eggs. This benefit
was the same when the male was mated with a focal or a control female. Hence, we found no support for benefits that depend
on mate compatibility. Neither did we find support for the hypothesis that females would lay a different number of eggs depending
on the male status. The results also indicate that male filial cannibalism has a strong role in determining hatching success
in this species. 相似文献
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Craig A. Walling Nick J. Royle Jan Lindström Neil B. Metcalfe 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(4):541-548
Sexual selection acting on male traits through female mate choice is commonly inferred from female association preferences
in dichotomous mate choice experiments. However, there are surprisingly few empirical demonstrations that such association
preferences predict the likelihood of females reproducing with a particular male. This information is essential to confirm
association preferences as good predictors of mate choice. We used green swordtails (Xiphophorus helleri) to test whether association preferences predict the likelihood of a female reproducing with a male. Females were tested
for a preference for long- or short-sworded males in a standard dichotomous choice experiment and then allowed free access
to either their preferred or non-preferred male. If females subsequently failed to produce fry, they were provided a second
unfamiliar male with similar sword length to the first male. Females were more likely to reproduce with preferred than non-preferred
males, but for those that reproduced, neither the status (preferred/non-preferred) nor the sword length (long/short) of the
male had an effect on brood size or relative investment in growth by the female. There was no overall preference based on
sword length in this study, but male sword length did affect likelihood of reproduction, with females more likely to reproduce
with long- than short-sworded males (independent of preference for such males in earlier choice tests). These results suggest
that female association preferences are good indicators of female mate choice but that ornament characteristics of the male
are also important. 相似文献