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Pilakouta N, Baillet A. Effects of temperature on mating behaviour and mating success: A meta-analysis. J Anim Ecol 2022; 91:1642-1650. [PMID: 35811382 PMCID: PMC9541322 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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In light of global climate change, there is a pressing need to understand how populations will respond to rising temperatures. Understanding the effects of temperature changes on mating behaviour is particularly important, given its implications for population viability. To this end, we performed a meta-analysis of 53 studies to examine how temperature changes influence mating latency, choosiness and mating success. We hypothesized that if higher temperatures make mate searching and mate assessment more costly due to an elevated metabolism, this may lead to a reduction in mating latency and choosiness, thereby increasing overall mating success. We found no evidence for an overall effect of temperature on mating latency, choosiness, or mating success. There was an increase in mating success when animals were exposed to higher temperatures during mating trials but not when they were exposed before mating trials. In addition, in a subset of studies that measured both mating latency and mating success, there was a strong negative relationship between the effect sizes for these traits. This suggests that a decrease in mating latency at higher temperatures was associated with an increase in mating success and vice versa. In sum, our meta-analysis provides new insights into the effects of temperature on mating patterns. The absence of a consistent directional effect of temperature on mating behaviours and mating success suggests it may be difficult to predict changes in the strength of sexual selection in natural populations in a warming world. Nevertheless, there is some evidence that (a) higher temperatures during mating may lead to an increase in mating success and that (b) an increase in mating success is associated with a decrease in mating latency.
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeenUK
- Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR)Université de RennesRennesFrance
- Department of Wood and Forest SciencesLaval UniversityQuebecQCCanada
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Yukilevich R, Aoki F. Evolution of choosiness dictates whether search costs of mate choice enhance speciation by sexual selection. J Evol Biol 2022; 35:1045-1059. [PMID: 35830473 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.14036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The role of sexual selection in speciation is implicated in both empirical case studies and larger comparative works. However, sexual selection faces two major problems in driving speciation. First, because females with novel preferences search for their initially rare males, search costs are expected to curtail initial sexual divergence. Second, if these populations come back into sympatry, sexual divergence may be erased due to hybridization. A major goal is to understand which conditions increase the likelihood of overcoming these problems. Here we generated a diploid population genetic model of how female search costs and evolution of female 'choosiness' (i.e. preference strength) interact to drive speciation in allopatry and secondary contact. We studied the model using numerical simulations in the context of two different male traits, ecologically 'arbitrary' versus 'magic' traits. First, in allopatry, without female search costs only minor and fluctuating sexual isolation evolved. In contrast, with female search costs, sexual isolation was highly curtailed with arbitrary male traits but was greatly facilitated with magic traits. However, because search costs selected for reduced choosiness, sexual isolation with magic traits was eventually eroded, the rate determined by the genetic architecture of choosiness. These factors also played a key role in secondary contact; with evolvable choosiness and female search costs, pure sexual selection models collapsed upon secondary contact. However, when we added selection against hybrids (i.e. reinforcement) to this model, we found that speciation could be maintained under a wide range of conditions with arbitrary male traits, but not with magic male traits. This surprisingly suggests that arbitrary male traits are in some cases more likely to aid speciation than magic male traits. We discuss these findings and relate them to empirical literature on female choosiness within species and in hybrids.
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- Roman Yukilevich
- Department of Biology, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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Feagles O, Höbel G. Mate preferences and choosiness are distinct components of mate choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor). Am Nat 2022; 200:506-517. [DOI: 10.1086/720730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Sarmiento-Ponce EJ, Rogers S, Hedwig B. Does the choosiness of female crickets change as they age? J Exp Biol 2021; 224:jeb241802. [PMID: 34114627 PMCID: PMC8214831 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.241802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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For crickets, which approach singing males by phonotaxis, the female choosiness hypothesis postulates that young females should be more selective of male calling song patterns than older individuals. However, there is no information about the behavioural preferences of females over their complete adulthood. We analysed phonotaxis in female Gryllus bimaculatus throughout their entire adult lifetime and measured the impact of sound amplitude, carrier frequency and the temporal pattern of test songs on their auditory response. Females of all ages demonstrated their best responses to male calling songs with a pulse period of 34-42 ms, a carrier frequency of 4.5 kHz and a sound pressure level of 75 dB. The response profile to somewhat less optimal song types did vary with age, but not in a manner consistent with a simple loosening of selectiveness in older females. Age, however, had an effect on the overall strength of phonotaxis, as very old females showed an overall diminishing response to all song types. Our data suggest that although there are minor changes in the relative preferences of crickets to individual song elements as they age, the breadth of song patterns to which they will perform phonotaxis remains similar across age groups.
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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Dougherty LR. Meta-analysis shows the evidence for context-dependent mating behaviour is inconsistent or weak across animals. Ecol Lett 2021; 24:862-875. [PMID: 33471386 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Revised: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Animals often need to invest significantly in mating behaviour in order to successfully mate. However, the expression of mating behaviour can be costly, especially in unfavourable environments, so animals are expected to adjust their behaviour in a context-dependent way to mitigate these costs. I systematically searched the literature for studies measuring animal mating behaviour (sexual signalling, response to sexual signals or the strength of mate choice) in more than one environment, and used a phylogenetically controlled meta-analysis to identify environmental factors influencing these behaviours. Across 222 studies, the strength of mate choice was significantly context-dependent, and most strongly influenced by population density, population sex ratio and predation risk. However, the average effect sizes were typically small. The amount of sexual signalling and the strength of response to sexual signals were not significantly related to the environment. Overall, this suggests that the evidence for context-dependent mating behaviour across animals is surprisingly weak.
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- Liam R Dougherty
- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7RB, UK
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Makowicz AM, Daniel MJ, Jones BC, Rivers PR, Dye M, Kuzel MR, Guerrera AG, Kettelkamp S, Whitcher C, DuVal EH. Foundations and Frontiers in Mate Choice Review of: Rosenthal, G. 2017. Mate Choice: The Evolution of Sexual Decision Making from Microbes to Humans. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 648 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐691‐15067‐3; $US55.00 HB. Evolution 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.14018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Amber M. Makowicz
- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida State University Tallahassee Florida 32306
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Dougherty LR. Designing mate choice experiments. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2020; 95:759-781. [PMID: 32022418 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The important role that mate choice plays in the lives of animals is matched by the large and active research field dedicated to studying it. Researchers work on a wide range of species and behaviours, and so the experimental approaches used to measure animal mate choice are highly variable. Importantly, these differences are often not purely cosmetic; they can strongly influence the measurement of choice, for example by varying the behaviour of animals during tests, the aspects of choice actually measured, and statistical power. Consideration of these effects are important when comparing results among studies using different types of test, or when using laboratory results to predict animal behaviour in natural populations. However, these effects have been underappreciated by the mate choice literature to date. I focus on five key experimental considerations that may influence choice: (i) should mating be allowed to occur, or should a proxy behavioural measure of preference be used instead? (ii) Should subjects be given a choice of options? (iii) Should each subject be tested more than once, either with the same or different stimuli? (iv) When given a choice, how many options should the subject choose between? (v) What form should the experimental stimuli take? I discuss the practical advantages and disadvantages of common experimental approaches, and how they may influence the measurement of mate choice in systematic ways. Different approaches often influence the ability of animals to perceive and compare stimuli presented during tests, or the perceived costs and benefits of being choosy. Given that variation in the design of mate choice experiments is likely unavoidable, I emphasise that there is no single 'correct' approach to measuring choice across species, although ecological relevance is crucial if the aim is to understand how choice acts in natural populations. I also highlight the need for quantitative estimates of the sizes of potentially important effects, without which we cannot make informed design decisions.
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- Liam R Dougherty
- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7RB, UK
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Operational sex ratio does not influence the evolution of male mate choice in the Indian meal moth. J ETHOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10164-019-00616-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Charalabidis A, Dechaume-Moncharmont FX, Carbonne B, Bohan DA, Petit S. Diversity of foraging strategies and responses to predator interference in seed-eating carabid beetles. Basic Appl Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2019.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Neelon DP, Rodríguez RL, Höbel G. On the architecture of mate choice decisions: preference functions and choosiness are distinct traits. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20182830. [PMID: 30963823 PMCID: PMC6408907 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Mate choice is an important cause of sexual selection; it can drive the evolution of extravagant ornaments and displays, and promote speciation through the reproductive isolation generated by rapid divergence of sexual traits. Understanding mate choice requires knowledge of the traits involved in generating mate-choice decisions, and how those traits may interact with each other. It has been proposed that mate-choice decisions are the outcome of two components that vary independently: the preference function (the ranking of the attractiveness of prospective mates) and choosiness (the effort invested in mate assessment). Here we test this hypothesis by examining individual variation in female preference functions and choosiness in green treefrogs ( Hyla cinerea). We show that measures describing preference functions and choosiness are not correlated. We also show that both components are influenced differently by variation in female body size, and that preference function shape (closed and preferring intermediate values or open-ended and preferring extremes) has a strong influence on this relationship: function traits are positively correlated with body size only for individuals with closed functions, while choosiness is positively correlated with body size for individuals with open functions, but negatively for those with closed functions.
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- Daniel P. Neelon
- Behavioral and Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 3209 N Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
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Gomes ACR, Cardoso GC. Choice of high-quality mates versus avoidance of low-quality mates. Evolution 2018; 72:2608-2616. [PMID: 30421418 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Research in sexual selection assumes that individuals attempt to choose high-quality mates, and that sexual signals evolve to indicate high quality. But it may often be more important to instead discriminate and avoid low-quality mates, thus reducing the likelihood of large penalties in fitness. We show, using simulations, that avoidance of low-quality mates (i.e., rejecting low-quality and accepting either high- or medium-quality mates) evolves in socio-ecological circumstances such as monogamy with moderate opportunities for choice, costly choice, or abundant low-quality mates. We also show that this strategy is qualitatively different from choosing high-quality mates (i.e., preferring high-quality over medium- and low-quality mates). Rather than selecting signals that distinguish high- from low- and medium-quality mates, avoiding low-quality mates selects for signals or cues attuned at discriminating low-quality mates from the remaining (e.g., low-cost signals, absence of signaling mistakes). This may help explain the high diversity of sexual signals in nature, and their high evolutionary turnover with frequent losses and replacements (rather than reductions/increases of the same signal) over evolutionary time.
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- Ana Cristina R Gomes
- CIBIO/InBIO-Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
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- CIBIO/InBIO-Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal.,Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Scherer U, Schuett W. No male mate choice for female boldness in a bi-parental West African cichlid, the rainbow krib ( Pelvicachromis pulcher). PeerJ 2018; 6:e5373. [PMID: 30123707 PMCID: PMC6087618 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background In many species, males have a lower reproductive investment than females and are therefore assumed to increase their fitness with a high number of matings rather than by being choosy. However, in bi-parental species, also males heavily invest into reproduction. Here, reproductive success largely depends on costly parental care; with style and amount of parental effort in several cases being associated with personality differences (i.e., consistent between-individual differences in behaviour). Nonetheless, very little is known about the effect of personality differences on (male) mate choice in bi-parental species. Methods In the present study, we tested male mate choice for the level and consistency of female boldness in the rainbow krib, Pelviachromis pulcher, a bi-parental and territorial West African cichlid. Individual boldness was assumed to indicate parental quality because it affects parental defence behaviour. For all males and females, boldness was assessed twice as the activity under simulated predation risk. Mate choice trials were conducted in two steps. First, we let a male observe two females expressing their boldness. Then, the male could choose between these two females in a standard mate choice test. Results We tested for a male preference for behavioural (dis-)similarity vs. a directional preference for boldness but our data support the absence of effects of male and/or female boldness (level and consistency) on male mating preference. Discussion Our results suggest female personality differences in boldness may not be selected for via male mate choice.
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- Ulrike Scherer
- Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.,School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Dhole S, Stern CA, Servedio MR. Direct detection of male quality can facilitate the evolution of female choosiness and indicators of good genes: Evolution across a continuum of indicator mechanisms. Evolution 2018. [PMID: 29528491 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The evolution of mating displays as indicators of male quality has been the subject of extensive theoretical and empirical research for over four decades. Research has also addressed the evolution of female mate choice favoring such indicators. Yet, much debate still exists about whether displays can evolve through the indirect benefits of female mate choice. Here, we use a population genetic model to investigate how the extent to which females can directly detect male quality influences the evolution of female choosiness and male displays. We use a continuum framework that incorporates indicator mechanisms that are traditionally modeled separately. Counter to intuition, we find that intermediate levels of direct detection of male quality can facilitate, rather than impede, the evolution of female choosiness and male displays in broad regions of this continuum. We examine how this evolution is driven by selective forces on genetic quality and on the display, and find that direct detection of male quality results in stronger indirect selection favoring female choosiness. Our results imply that displays maybe more likely to evolve when female choosiness has already evolved to discriminate perceptible forms of male quality. They also highlight the importance of considering general female choosiness, as well as preference, in studies of "good genes."
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- Sumit Dhole
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599.,Current Address: Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599.,Current Address: Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Manufacture des Tabacs, 21 Allée de Brienne, 31015 Toulouse Cedex 6, France
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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Kopp M, Servedio MR, Mendelson TC, Safran RJ, Rodríguez RL, Hauber ME, Scordato EC, Symes LB, Balakrishnan CN, Zonana DM, van Doorn GS. Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research. Am Nat 2018; 191:1-20. [DOI: 10.1086/694889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Charalabidis A, Dechaume-Moncharmont FX, Petit S, Bohan DA. Risk of predation makes foragers less choosy about their food. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0187167. [PMID: 29121652 PMCID: PMC5679636 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 10/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Animals foraging in the wild have to balance speed of decision making and accuracy of assessment of a food item's quality. If resource quality is important for maximizing fitness, then the duration of decision making may be in conflict with other crucial and time consuming tasks, such as anti-predator behaviours or competition monitoring. Individuals facing the risk of predation and/or competition should adjust the duration of decision making and, as a consequence, their level of choosiness for resources. When exposed to predation, the forager could either maintain its level of choosiness for food items but accept a reduction in the amount of food items consumed or it could reduce its level of choosiness and accept all prey items encountered. Under competition risk, individuals are expected to reduce their level of choosiness as slow decision making exposes individuals to a higher risk of opportunity costs. To test these predictions, the level of choosiness of a seed-eating carabid beetle, Harpalus affinis, was examined under 4 different experimental conditions of risk: i) predation risk; ii) intraspecific competition; iii) interspecific competition; and, iv) control. All the risks were simulated using chemical cues from individual conspecifics or beetles of different species that are predatory or granivorous. Our results show that when foraging under the risk of predation, H. affinis individuals significantly reduce their level of choosiness for seeds. Reductions in level of choosiness for food items might serve as a sensible strategy to reduce both the total duration of a foraging task and the cognitive load of the food quality assessment. No significant differences were observed when individuals were exposed to competition cues. Competition, (i.e opportunity cost) may not be perceived as risk high enough to induce changes in the level of choosiness. Our results suggest that considering the amount of items consumed, alone, would be a misleading metric when assessing individual response to a risk of predation. Foraging studies should therefore also take in account the decision making process.
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- Alice Charalabidis
- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
- Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UMR CNRS 6282 Biogéosciences, Evolutionary Ecology group, Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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Kilmer JT, Fowler‐Finn KD, Gray DA, Höbel G, Rebar D, Reichert MS, Rodríguez RL. Describing mate preference functions and other function‐valued traits. J Evol Biol 2017; 30:1658-1673. [DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2017] [Revised: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- J. T. Kilmer
- Behavioral & Molecular Ecology Group Department of Biological Sciences University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee WI USA
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- Department of Biology California State University Northridge Northridge CA USA
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- Behavioral & Molecular Ecology Group Department of Biological Sciences University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee WI USA
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- Department of Zoology University of Cambridge Cambridge UK
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science University College Cork Cork Ireland
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- Behavioral & Molecular Ecology Group Department of Biological Sciences University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee WI USA
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Campos SM, Strauss C, Martins EP. In Space and Time: Territorial Animals are Attracted to Conspecific Chemical Cues. Ethology 2017; 123:136-144. [PMID: 28413237 PMCID: PMC5390687 DOI: 10.1111/eth.12582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Territorial animals lay scent marks around their territories to broadcast their presence, but these olfactory signals can both attract and repel con-specifics. Attraction or aversion can have a profound impact in terms of space use and thereby influence an individual's access to resources and mates. Here, we test the impact of chemical signals on the long-term space use and activity of receivers, comparing the response of males and females, territory holders, and temporary visitors in Sceloporus undulatus lizards in the field. We placed either male femoral gland secretions (chemical) or blank (control) cues on resident male landmarks, repeatedly over 5 d, while monitoring the activity and location of all lizards in the vicinity. We found that resident males and females, but not non-resident males, were active on more days near landmarks treated with chemical cues than landmarks treated with control cues. Non-resident males remained closer to chemical than control cues. These results suggest that territorial scent marks are attractive to conspecifics and impact space use, but that the specific effects depend on receiver sex and residency status. Such subtle or gradual changes in behavior may frequently be overlooked by short-term choice experiments. Future studies investigating the behavioral significance of a communicative signal should consider these finer details of behavior for a more comprehensive assessment.
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- Stephanie M Campos
- Department of Biology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Biology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Biology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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Hitoshi Y, Ishikawa Y, Matsuo T. Inheritance Pattern of Female Receptivity inDrosophila prolongata. Zoolog Sci 2016; 33:455-460. [DOI: 10.2108/zs160047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Courtiol A, Etienne L, Feron R, Godelle B, Rousset F. The Evolution of Mutual Mate Choice under Direct Benefits. Am Nat 2016; 188:521-538. [PMID: 27788341 DOI: 10.1086/688658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In nature, the intensity of mate choice (i.e., choosiness) is highly variable within and between sexes. Despite growing empirical evidence of male and/or mutual mate choice, theoretical investigations of the joint evolution of female and male choosiness are few. In addition, previous approaches have often assumed an absence of trade-off between the direct benefits per mating and the lower mating rate that results from being choosy. Here we model the joint evolution of female and male choosiness when it is solely ruled by this fundamental trade-off. We show that this trade-off can generate a diversity of stable combinations of choosiness. Mutual mate choice can evolve only if both females and males exhibit long latency after mating. Furthermore, we show that an increase in choosiness in one sex does not necessarily prevent the evolution of mutual mate choice; the outcome depends on details shaping the trade-off: the life history, the decision rule for mate choice, and how the fecundity of a pair is shaped by the quality of both individuals. Last, we discuss the power of the sensitivity of the relative searching time (i.e., of the proportion of a lifetime spent searching for mates) as a predictor of the joint evolution of choosiness.
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Opportunity costs resulting from scramble competition within the choosy sex severely impair mate choosiness. Anim Behav 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Reichert MS, Höbel G. Modality interactions alter the shape of acoustic mate preference functions in gray treefrogs. Evolution 2015; 69:2384-98. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.12750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Revised: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michael S. Reichert
- Department of Biological Sciences; University of Wisconsin; 3209 N. Maryland Avenue Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201
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- Department of Biological Sciences; University of Wisconsin; 3209 N. Maryland Avenue Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201
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DuVal E, Kapoor J. Causes and consequences of variation in female mate search investment in a lekking bird. Behav Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Insect hearing: from physics to ecology. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2015; 201:1-4. [DOI: 10.1007/s00359-014-0966-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2014] [Revised: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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