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Clint D. Kelly 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(6):855-871
A long-standing hypothesis in behavioural ecology posits that males with greater resource-holding potential (RHP) control
resource sites deemed more valuable by sexually-receptive females and, thereby, males controlling such sites accrue greater
reproductive success (RS). This hypothesis has historically been investigated using three separate but non-mutually exclusive
relationships (male RHP vs. resource value, resource value vs. male RS and male RHP vs. RS). The relationships between these
three variables are predicted to be strongly positive, however, due to measurement error and biological noise, perfect correlations
(r = 1.0) are rare in biology even for well-established relationships. Moreover, the inaccurate identification of either the
male trait(s) important to RHP or the resource characteristic sought by females will weaken the observed strength of the relationships.
Here, I use meta-analysis to quantitatively describe the general pattern of these relationships in animals. I predict that
the relationships between male RHP, resource-value and RS should be significantly positive (male RHP and resource-value should
explain a large amount of the variation in male RS). My meta-analysis supports this hypothesis; however, in the best case
scenario only ca. 20% of the variation in the response variable was explained. I conclude by identifying areas in which we
need to improve our investigations of resource-defence animals and recommending approaches to meet these needs.
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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G. W. Uetz William J. McClintock Douglas Miller Elizabeth I. Smith Kristina K. Cook 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1996,38(4):253-257
Males of the brush-legged wolf spider Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz) have conspicuously decorated forelegs used in courtship and agonistic displays. Approximately one in five juvenile
males has a missing or regenerating foreleg, and regeneration of a leg lost during development usually results in the absence
of a decorative tuft on that leg. The subsequent asymmetry in this male secondary character significantly decreases success
in both courtship of females and male-male agonistic interactions. Experimental removal of tufts from one leg of previously
successful symmetric males produces similar results. As a test for concomitant behavioral effects, female spiders were shown
video images of a courting male with symmetric tufts and the same video image altered to have asymmetric tufts. Female receptivity
to the asymmetric video image was lower. In contrast to fluctuating asymmetry resulting from developmental instability, leg
tuft asymmetry in S. ocreata most likely arises from a single event during ontogeny – possibly leg loss from an aggressive or predator encounter – and
may serve as a quality indicator in female mate choice.
Received: 27 July 1995/ Accepted after revision: 19 November 1995 相似文献
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José P. Veiga 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1996,39(5):345-352
In many bird species the cryptic winter plumage is due to the presence of light feather tips that conceal conspicuous colorations.
The gradual abrasion of these tips that makes sexual traits visible has been interpreted as a strategy to improve mating success
(here referred as the permanent exhibition hypothesis). However, under some circumstances, the maintenance of a full plumage
that facultatively enables the bird to exhibit or cover aggression-inducing traits has proved to be advantageous (the coverable
badge hypothesis). In a population of house sparrows where black throat patches (here called badges) are used in intrasexual
competition, the degree of abrasion of dull feather tips that conceal bright colour early in the breeding season correlated
neither with badge size nor with traits indicating morphology and body condition. These results are only in accordance with
predictions of the coverable badge hypothesis. In 1992 experimental clipping of badge feather tips, which forced permanent
exposure of badges, negatively affected birds with the largest badges in terms of nest acquisition, but an opposite trend
was indicated for birds with the smallest badges. In 1993, when more novel birds in the study area were competing for nesting
sites than in 1992, only badge size, but not the experimental manipulation, affected nesting success. These results suggest
that the loss of the ability to conceal badges was disadvantageous, and more so if most competing individuals had already
been resident in the colony in previous years and the larger their badges were. There is a striking contrast between the results
reported for this study population, where badges mainly signal fighting ability, and those reported for another house sparrow
population, where badges are mainly used in mate choice. In this last population, tip abrasion is advantageous for dominant
individuals showing the largest badges. This suggests that the trade-off between conserving versus wearing off the feathers
that conceal ornaments could have different optimal resolutions depending on the relative importance of inter and intrasexual
selection on indicator traits.
Received: 29 September 1995/Accepted after revision: 14 July 1996 相似文献
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Growth rate is a life-history trait often linked to various fitness components, including survival, age of first reproduction, and fecundity. Here we present an analysis of growth-rate variability in a wild population of savannah baboons (Papio cynocephalus). We found that relative juvenile size was a stable individual trait during the juvenile period: individuals generally remained consistently large-for-age or small-for-age throughout development. Resource availability, which varied greatly in the study population (between completely wild-foraging and partially food-enhanced social groups), had major effects on growth. Sexual maturity was accelerated for animals in the food-enhanced foraging condition, and the extent and ontogeny of sexual dimorphism differed with resource availability. Maternal characteristics also had significant effects on growth. Under both foraging conditions, females of high dominance rank and multiparous females had relatively large-for-age juveniles. Large relative juvenile size predicted earlier age of sexual maturation for both males and females in the wild-feeding condition. This confirmed that maternal effects were pervasive and contributed to differences among individuals in fitness components.Communicated by J. Setchell 相似文献
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Mate sampling behaviour of black grouse females (Tetrao tetrix) 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Pekka T. Rintamäki Rauno V Alatalo Jacob Höglund Arne Lundberg 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1995,37(3):209-215
We studied female mate sampling behaviour in lekking black grouse (Tetrao tetrix). Females mainly visited males occupying territories in the centre of the lek with relatively large territories. They were also more likely to visit males that had high attendance. The same factors were also correlated with male mating success. A multiple regression model including these factors explained more of the variance in female visits per male (53%) than in mating success (33%). The pattern of female sampling conformed with a pool comparison (best-of-n) tactic. Such a tactic is expected if the costs of sampling are low. Females of high body mass visited more males than lighter females, however, which indicates that females may vary in their search tactics and suggests that there may be search costs. The existence of costs is further suggested by the fact that if the mate from a previous year was still present, females always mated with the same male in the following year. Though search costs were not measured directly, our findings suggest that some costs are negligible (e.g. energetic exhaustion or predation) whereas others (timing of mating) may be more important. 相似文献
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Several sexual selection theories assume certain benefits of female mate preference. The direct benefit, i.e., the direct contribution from males to their offspring and females, has been well tested empirically. However, the indirect benefit, i.e., the male's genetic contribution to their offspring, has been poorly demonstrated. Female preference for males' carotenoid-based coloration is known in some animals. Since animals must acquire carotenoids through foods, it is often hypothesized that the brightness of the carotenoid-based coloration is a reliable indicator of the male's foraging ability. Hence, females' indirect benefits, such as greater foraging ability in their offspring, through mate preference for the carotenoid-based coloration are assumed. However, the heritability of the foraging ability for foods that serve as carotenoid resources has not been tested. In this study, a maze experiment was performed in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) to examine the heritability of the foraging ability for algae, carotenoid resources in nature. The latency for completing algal-foraging tasks in this experiment showed high individual variation. Heritable estimates of the foraging ability were substantial (h
2 = 0.57 – 0.66) and significant, suggesting a genetic contribution to the foraging ability from fathers to their offspring. This result may support the hypothesis that indirect benefits influence the evolution of female choice. 相似文献
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Joris M. Koene Kora Montagne-Wajer Andries Ter Maat 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,60(3):332-338
Simultaneous hermaphrodites have the opportunity to control the allocation of resources to the male and female function depending on the circumstances. Such flexibility also provides the possibility to influence sex allocation in the mating partner. To investigate this idea, we measured egg production (female investment) and sperm production as well as prostate gland size (both are part of male investment) under different mating regimes in the great pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. We find no evidence for the prediction from sex allocation theory that sperm production increases with mating frequency. However, we do find that animals with more mating opporunities develop smaller prostate glands, in which seminal fluid is produced. Moreover, repeated mating increases egg production, thus shifting allocation towards the female function, and probably decreases growth. So, our data hint at a three-way trade-off between part of the male function (prostate gland), female function, and growth. Interestingly, sex allocation seems to be shifted in the opposite direction from the one predicted by theory. We discuss how this feminization is suggestive of a direct manipulation by the sperm donor, probably to stimulate immediate sperm use. 相似文献
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Bo Terning Hansen Lars Erik Johannessen Tore Slagsvold 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(8):1203-1209
Imprinting plays a key role in the development of species recognition, with young imprinting upon the morphological characters
of their parents. However, the potential role that cultural transmission might play in species recognition remains largely
uninvestigated. Great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) do not normally perceive each other as sexual competitors or potential partners. However, after reciprocal interspecific
cross-fostering, both species may perceive individuals of the foster species as potential rivals or mates. Although the experience
of being raised by heterospecifics clearly has affected the species recognition of cross-fostered birds, some of them breed
naturally with conspecifics. The offspring of such cross-fostered birds (OCF) are hence raised by parents that look like ordinary
conspecifics but display deviant species recognition as compared to controls in terms of aggressive response towards rivals.
Comparing the aggressive behavior of OCF, cross-fostered birds and controls towards territorial intruders may thus help tease
apart the influence of morphological vs behavioral cues of parents in the development of offspring species recognition. To
this end, we compared birds from all three treatments with respect to their aggressive response to territorial intruders of
both species during the breeding season. OCF and controls did not differ in their pattern of response towards heterospecific
and conspecific stimuli. Compared to cross-fostered birds, OCF and controls showed less aggression towards heterospecific
intruders, while the response towards conspecific intruders did not differ between treatments. These results demonstrate that
both tit species imprint on the morphological characters of their parents, but that parental behavior is not important for
the development of species recognition in terms of aggressive response towards territorial intruders. 相似文献
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Peter D. Dijkstra Renske Hekman Rüdiger W. Schulz Ton G. G. Groothuis 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(4):599-609
The nature of the costs maintaining honesty of sexual signalling in inter- and intrasexual interactions remains a contentious
issue. For carotenoid-based colour ornaments, it has been hypothesized that the honesty of the signal is enforced when carotenoid
allocation to colour expression is traded off against carotenoid availability for immunocompetence. In addition, honesty is
enforced if androgens required for colour expression are immunosuppressive. We tested whether there is a trade-off between
colour expression and immunocompetence in a lek-breeding haplochromine cichlid fish, Pundamilia nyererei, from Lake Victoria with a carotenoid-based nuptial dress. First, we showed that expression of red nuptial colouration and
social rank in a group were positively correlated. We then successfully manipulated the level of colour advertisement by socially
stimulating individually housed males with a rival male: Stimulated males developed larger areas of red nuptial colouration
and had higher levels of circulating 11-ketotestosterone (11-KT) than non-stimulated males. We subsequently tested the humoral
immune response to a novel antigen (sheep red blood cells). There was no overall significant effect of social stimulation
on antibody production, but in the stimulated males, the degree of red colouration and the antibody response were negatively
correlated. This significant interaction between colour and treatment thus shows that the negative correlation between colouration
and antibody production is dependent on the (manipulated) social environment. This study provides correlational and experimental
evidence for a trade-off between expression of a sexual trait and one component of immune function in fish. We found no evidence
for a direct effect of 11-KT on antibody production, and we discuss alternative mechanisms that could mediate the trade-off. 相似文献
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Akiko Matsumoto-Oda Miya Hamai Hitosige Hayaki Kazuhiko Hosaka Kevin D. Hunt Eiiti Kasuya Kenji Kawanaka John C. Mitani Hiroyuki Takasaki Yukio Takahata 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(5):661-668
Although estrous synchrony has been reported in a number of mammalian species, most often among primates, methodological and
analytical problems make it difficult to interpret these results. We developed a novel estrous synchrony index and employed
a randomization procedure to analyze long-term observations of female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) estrous cycles at the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania. Our results revealed that female chimpanzees at Mahale avoid
synchronizing their estrous periods with each other. We also found that birthrates decreased as the breeding sex ratio increased.
We suggest that estrous asynchrony decreases female–female competition for mates. Asynchrony may also reduce the potential
for male sexual coercion by nonpreferred mating partners. 相似文献