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Variance in female quality, operational sex ratio and male mate choice in a bushcricket 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Male bushcrickets, Kawanaphila nartee, exercise mate choice when nutrients are limited. Male mate choice is associated with a female-biased operational sex ratio
(OSR) that arises from an increased relative paternal investment under nutrient limitation. However, increased male choosiness
could be attributable to the fact that females vary more in fecundity, and consequently in mate quality, when nutrient limited.
Our objective was to experimentally partition the influences of OSR (male or female bias) and variance in mate quality (high
or low) and to assess their relative influence on the intensity of mate choice by male bushcrickets. Female quality was manipulated
by controlled feeding regimes that directly affected female fecundity. We found that males and females engaged in sexual interactions
sooner under a male-biased than a female-biased OSR. Males were more likely to reject females on their first encounter when
variance in female quality was high. However, the effect of quality variance on the total number of rejections during a 4-h
observation period was dependent on the perceived OSR. A male's prior experience of variance in female quality did not influence
male choosiness. Our observed rates of mate rejection conformed well with those predicted from recent theoretical models of
sexual differences in choosiness. In conclusion, our results show that the opportunity for selection via male mate choice
is influenced by an interaction between OSR and the variance in mate quality that arises within nutrient-limited populations
of females.
Received: 5 January 1998 / Accepted after revision: 25 October 1998 相似文献
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刘玉飞 《中国个体防护装备》2011,(2):35-38
本文介绍了护听器声衰减值的评价方法,对比了我国、ISO、欧洲EN、美国ANSI和澳大利亚新西兰AS/NZS标准中关于护听器声衰减值评价方法的差异。着重讨论在测试过程中,使用不同的受试者和护听器佩戴方式得出的检测数据与真实世界防护值的一致性情况。研究表明,使用"受试者自行佩戴"的方式测得的数据能更好地反映护听器在真实世界的防护性能。 相似文献
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We performed male attraction experiments and staged courtship sequences to test for non-random mating with respect to social
behavioral phenotype in the comb-footed spider, Anelosimus studiosus. While asocial behavior is the dominant phenotype in all A. studiosus populations examined to date, a social phenotype approaches a frequency of 15% in colder environments. We collected test
subjects from higher latitude polymorphic populations and scored all individuals as to their behavioral phenotype prior to
their use in these trials. Males of both phenotypes differentially approached and courted social females over asocial females
and no-spider controls. By offering males different numbers of females of one type vs. the other in subsequent trials, we
determined that the difference in attractiveness between the two phenotypes social/asocial is 1.5/1. Both the web produced
by a female and a female that has been removed from its web attract males. We suggest that the male attracting pheromone is
present on females and is also attached to silk threads. Staged encounters completed between males and females of the respective
phenotypes demonstrated that courting males suffer significantly less pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism with social females
than with asocial ones, and thus, female social tendency is phenotypically linked to sexual aggression. We propose that the
male preference for social females is adaptive because of the observed asymmetry in courtship success. 相似文献
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Pheromone-based female mate choice and its effect on reproductive investment in a spitting spider 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Teck Hui Koh Wee Khee Seah Laura-Marie Y. L. Yap Daiqin Li 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(6):923-930
Numerous studies have focused on whether organisms can signal or perceive pheromones and use chemical signals in species and
mate recognition. Recently, there have been an increasing number of studies investigating whether pheromones are used in mate
choice. Yet, little attention has been paid in exploring the effects of pheromone-based mate choice on reproductive investment.
We first tested this hypothesis by providing virgin Scytodes sp. females with a choice between two virgin males in the presence of chemical signals alone and found strong evidence of
an odor-based mate preference. We then examined the consequences of the odor-based mate choice by allowing female Scytodes sp. that had previously made an odor-only mate choice to mate with preferred and non-preferred males, respectively. We measured
the success of copulation, mortality of male, pre-oviposition interval, egg-sac weight, egg weight, fecundity, fertility,
embryonic period, and size of offspring at hatching. Females that mated with the preferred males produced significantly heavier
egg sacs that contained more and larger eggs with a greater fertility. Significantly more non-preferred males than preferred
males were killed by spitting. However, pre-oviposition interval, embryonic period, and hatchling size were not affected by
female mate choice. This study is the first to demonstrate that female spiders are able to regulate their highly valuable
reproductive investment based solely on chemical signals. 相似文献
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Mate availability can vary widely in nature depending upon population density and sex ratio and can affect the ability of
individuals to be selective in mate choice. We tested the effects of prior encounters with the opposite sex (i.e., exposure
to the opposite sex either with or without mating) on subsequent mating behavior in two experiments that manipulated mate
availability for both males and females in the wolf spider, Hogna helluo. The probability of mating in the experimental trial depended upon whether the prior encounter involved mating or not, and
males and females responded in opposite directions. Exposure without mating resulted in a higher subsequent frequency of mating
for females and a lower subsequent frequency of mating for males, while prior mating experience resulted in a lower frequency
of female remating and a higher frequency of male remating. Prior exposure without mating did not affect female aggression.
However, mated females engaged in precopulatory cannibalism more frequently than virgins. Mated males escaped postcopulatory
cannibalism more frequently than virgins. Our results show that males respond to exposure without mating in the expected manner.
However, prior mating (1 week earlier) had unexpected effects on males, which may be due to mated males being of higher quality.
There were little or no effects of the size of the prior exposure individual or mate on subsequent mating behaviors. Further
research is needed to determine why different species use different degrees of prior information in mate choice. 相似文献
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Carlos César Martínez-Rivera H. Carl Gerhardt 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,63(2):195-208
Senders and receivers influence dynamic characteristics of the signals used for mate attraction over different time scales.
On a moment-to-moment basis, interactions among senders competing for a mate influence dynamic characteristics, whereas the
preferences of receivers of the opposite gender exert an influence over evolutionary time. We observed and recorded the calling
patterns of the bird-voiced treefrog Hyla avivoca to assess how the dynamic characters of calls vary during interactions among groups of males in a chorus. This question was
also addressed using playback experiments with males. Playback experiments with females showed how changes in dynamic call
properties are likely to affect male mating success. Frogs calling in pairs, groups, or in response to playbacks produced
longer calls than did isolated males. During call overlap, males often increased the duration of the silent interval (gaps)
between the pulses of their calls so that the pulses of the calls of two neighbors interdigitated. This change resulted in
increased variability of pulse rate, a traditionally static acoustic property; however, males also produced high proportions
of non-overlapped calls in which variability in pulse rate was low and had species-typical values. Females preferred long
calls to short- and average-duration calls, and non-overlapped calls to overlapped calls. Given a choice between pairs of
overlapped calls, females preferred pairs in which the proportion of overlap was low and pairs in which the pulses of such
calls interdigitated completely. The observed patterns of vocal competition thus reflect the preferences of conspecific females,
which have influenced the evolution of the calling behavior of H. avivoca.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Recent models of choosiness in mate choice have identified two particularly important factors: the potential reproductive
rate (PRR) of the choosing sex relative to that of the chosen sex, and the variation in quality of potential mates. This experimental
study tested how these factors affected choosiness in male and female sand gobies, Pomatoschistus minutus. We manipulated relative PRR by means of water temperature, and mate quality by means of body length. The choosing male or
female was offered a choice between two mates with either a small or a large difference in body length representing a small
or a large variation in mate quality. Choosiness was measured as (1) preference for the larger mate, and (2) as whether or
not spawning occurred with the smaller mate, while the larger mate was visible but screened off. We found that females preferred
large males, and that their level of choosiness was affected by variation in male quality, but not by their own relative PRR.
Males, on the other hand, seemed unselective in all treatments and were in general more likely than females to spawn with
their provided partner. This suggests that in the sand goby, variation in male mate quality has a greater influence than relative
PRR on facultative changes in female choosiness. However, a general difference in PRR between males and females may be one
important factor explaining the observed sex difference in choosiness.
Received: 17 April 2000 / Revised: 24 June 2000 / Accepted: 17 July 2000 相似文献
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Experimental evidence of a testosterone-induced shift from paternal to mating behaviour in a facultatively polygynous songbird 总被引:5,自引:2,他引:3
Previous studies have suggested that testosterone (T) profiles of male birds reflect a trade-off between mate attraction behaviours
(requiring high T levels) and parental care activities (requiring low T levels). In this study, we experimentally elevated
T levels of monogamous males in the facultatively polygynous European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), and compared mate attraction and paternal behaviour of T-treated males with those of controls (C-males). T-males significantly
reduced their participation in incubation and fed nestlings significantly less often than C-males. Females paired to T-treated
males did not compensate for their mate’s lower paternal effort. The observed reduction in a male’s investment in incubating
the eggs was accompanied by an increased investment in typical female-attracting behaviours: T-males spent a significantly
higher proportion of their time singing to attract additional females. They also occupied more additional nestboxes than C-males,
although the differences just failed to be significant, and carried significantly more green nesting materials into an additional
nestbox (a behaviour previously shown to serve a courtship function). T-males also behaved significantly more aggressively
than C-males. During the nestling period, the frequency of mate-attracting behaviours by T-treated and control males no longer
differed significantly. Despite the reduced paternal effort by T-males and the lack of compensation behaviour by females,
hatching and breeding success did not differ significantly between T- and C-pairs.
Received: 7 February 2000 / Revised: 10 August 2000 / Accepted: 3 September 2000 相似文献
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Male willow warblers have song repertoires which vary in complexity along several dimensions. We examined whether female choice,
as measured by date of pairing, was based on these song characteristics in 4 different years. Pairing date was negatively
correlated with song repertoire size in 1 year, and with song versatility in another year, but there was no consistent effect
of any song characteristic on pairing throughout the years or in the pooled sample. The variable that best explained how soon
a male pairs is male arrival date (only males that had settled territories before the first female arrived were considered
in the analysis). This correlation is consistently significant in all years. This is most parsimoniously interpreted as females
choosing some habitat characteristic in the same way that males do. A small percentage of males (8.3%) attracted and paired
with a second female. The likelihood of becoming polygynous was not explained by any measured song characteristic, but it
was related to arrival date: early males were more likely to pair with two females. Males with large repertoires fledged more
young in their primary nests, and there was a trend for the offspring of these males to have a greater probability of being
recruited into the population. In conclusion, the results show that in most years there is no sexual selection by female preference
on song characteristics, although the data on reproductive success is consistent with the idea of repertoire size being an
indicator of male quality.
Received: 4 June 1999 / Received in revised form: 1 December 1999 / Accepted: 31 December 1999 相似文献
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Coalitionary mate guarding by male chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
David P. Watts 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1998,44(1):43-55
Cooperative mate guarding by males is unusual in mammals and birds, largely because fertilizations are non-shareable. Chimpanzees
live in fission-fusion communities that have cores of philopatric males who cooperate in inter-group aggression and in defending
access to the females in their community. Male contest mating competition is restrained within communities, but single high-ranking
males sometimes try to mate guard estrous females. Data from an unusually large chimpanzee commmunity at Ngogo, Kibale National
Park, Uganda, that contains more males than any previously studied community show new variation in chimpanzee mate-guarding
behavior. Contrary to expectation given the large number of males, mate guarding was as common as, or more common than, at
other sites, and males other than the alpha male guarded more often. More strikingly, pairs or trios of top-ranking males
sometimes engaged in cooperative aggression to prevent estrous females from mating with other males, but tolerated each other's
mating activities. Both single males and coalitions mostly guarded periovulatory females. Mate-guarding coalitions were previously
unknown in chimpanzees. Coalitions occurred in large mating parties, seemingly because these often contained too many males
for single males to maintain exclusive access to estrous females. Coalition members gained higher shares of copulations than
they could have expected from solo mate guarding, and suffered lower per capita costs of guarding (as inferred from aggression
rates). Two males who most often participated in coalitions formed two-male coalitions at about the point where the number
of males present made it unlikely that either could get 50% or more of total copulations on his own, and formed trios when
this value dropped below 33%. Kin selection could be a factor in cooperation among male chimpanzees, but coalition members
were not necessarily close relatives and the apparent structure of payoffs fit that of mutualism. Furthermore, reliance of
male chimpanzees on support from allies to maintain high rank could have led to trading of mating exclusivity for support
against mating competitors.
Received: 28 May 1997 / Accepted after revision: 16 May 1998 相似文献