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Sánchez-Hernández P, Suárez-Rancel MM, Molina-Borja M. Intersexual behaviour and effect of male and female intruders in the Tenerife skink (Chalcides viridanus). Is there any mate guarding? BEHAVIOUR 2021. [DOI: 10.1163/1568539x-bja10100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Individuals avoid potential competitors accessing mates during reproductive periods staying close to the mate and chasing same-sex intruders. We studied intersexual relationships and the effect of intruders of each sex in male-female pairs of Chalcides viridanus. We analysed: (1) behaviour patterns of each pair member and the time they spent together during three successive days in March, April and May; and (2) interactions of intruder-resident of the same sex, during each of the three months. Sexual and monthly differences appeared in intersexual behaviour as the breeding season progressed. In each month, time together was significantly larger on the third trial day than in the two previous days but did not significantly change between months. Sexes did not significantly differ in intruder-resident behaviours, but male aggressive interactions were significantly larger in May. Intruder females performed higher frequencies of non-agonistic behaviours than residents. We discuss all these results considering the predictions of mate guarding hypothesis.
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- Paula Sánchez-Hernández
- Grupo de investigación “Etología y Ecología del Comportamiento”, Depto. Biología Animal, Fac. Ciencias, Sección Biología, Univ. La Laguna, Spain
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- Departamento de Matemáticas, Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Grupo de investigación “Etología y Ecología del Comportamiento”, Depto. Biología Animal, Fac. Ciencias, Sección Biología, Univ. La Laguna, Spain
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Reproductive behavior of Spix’s Whiptails in the wild: understanding the costs and benefits of mate-guarding. Acta Ethol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10211-020-00360-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Use of Space and Its Relationship with Sex, Body Size, and Color Polymorphism in Liolaemus xanthoviridis (Iguania: Liolaemini) in Patagonia. J HERPETOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1670/18-024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Rico-Guevara A, Hurme KJ. Intrasexually selected weapons. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2019; 94:60-101. [PMID: 29924496 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2017] [Revised: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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We propose a practical concept that distinguishes the particular kind of weaponry that has evolved to be used in combat between individuals of the same species and sex, which we term intrasexually selected weapons (ISWs). We present a treatise of ISWs in nature, aiming to understand their distinction and evolution from other secondary sex traits, including from 'sexually selected weapons', and from sexually dimorphic and monomorphic weaponry. We focus on the subset of secondary sex traits that are the result of same-sex combat, defined here as ISWs, provide not previously reported evolutionary patterns, and offer hypotheses to answer questions such as: why have only some species evolved weapons to fight for the opposite sex or breeding resources? We examined traits that seem to have evolved as ISWs in the entire animal phylogeny, restricting the classification of ISW to traits that are only present or enlarged in adults of one of the sexes, and are used as weapons during intrasexual fights. Because of the absence of behavioural data and, in many cases, lack of sexually discriminated series from juveniles to adults, we exclude the fossil record from this review. We merge morphological, ontogenetic, and behavioural information, and for the first time thoroughly review the tree of life to identify separate evolution of ISWs. We found that ISWs are only found in bilateral animals, appearing independently in nematodes, various groups of arthropods, and vertebrates. Our review sets a reference point to explore other taxa that we identify with potential ISWs for which behavioural or morphological studies are warranted. We establish that most ISWs come in pairs, are located in or near the head, are endo- or exoskeletal modifications, are overdeveloped structures compared with those found in females, are modified feeding structures and/or locomotor appendages, are most common in terrestrial taxa, are frequently used to guard females, territories, or both, and are also used in signalling displays to deter rivals and/or attract females. We also found that most taxa lack ISWs, that females of only a few species possess better-developed weapons than males, that the cases of independent evolution of ISWs are not evenly distributed across the phylogeny, and that animals possessing the most developed ISWs have non-hunting habits (e.g. herbivores) or are faunivores that prey on very small prey relative to their body size (e.g. insectivores). Bringing together perspectives from studies on a variety of taxa, we conceptualize that there are five ways in which a sexually dimorphic trait, apart from the primary sex traits, can be fixed: sexual selection, fecundity selection, parental role division, differential niche occupation between the sexes, and interference competition. We discuss these trends and the factors involved in the evolution of intrasexually selected weaponry in nature.
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- Alejandro Rico-Guevara
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 3040 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, 94720, U.S.A.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Rd, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT, 06269, U.S.A.,Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Código Postal 11001, Bogotá DC, Colombia
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 3040 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, 94720, U.S.A.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Rd, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT, 06269, U.S.A
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Escudero PC, Tucker DB, Avila LJ, Sites JW, Morando M. Distribution of Genetic Diversity within a Population ofLiolaemus xanthoviridisand an Assessment of its Mating System, as Inferred with Microsatellite Markers. J HERPETOL 2017. [DOI: 10.2994/sajh-d-16-00037.1] [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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- Paula C. Escudero
- Grupo de Herpetología Patagónica. Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales. Centro Nacional Patagónico- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas. Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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- Department of Biology 4102 LSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
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- Grupo de Herpetología Patagónica. Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales. Centro Nacional Patagónico- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas. Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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- Department of Biology 4102 LSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
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- Grupo de Herpetología Patagónica. Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales. Centro Nacional Patagónico- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas. Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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Jacobs LE, Vega A, Dudgeon S, Kaiser K, Robertson JM. Local not vocal: assortative female choice in divergent populations of red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas(Hylidae: Phyllomedusinae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Leah E. Jacobs
- Department of Biology; California State University, Northridge; Northridge CA 91330-8303 USA
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- AMBICOR; 400 E., 75 S., 75 E. de la Municipalidad de Tibas Tibas Costa Rica
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- Department of Biology; California State University, Northridge; Northridge CA 91330-8303 USA
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- Department of Biology; California State University, Northridge; Northridge CA 91330-8303 USA
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- Department of Biology; California State University, Northridge; Northridge CA 91330-8303 USA
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Rocha S, Perera A, Silva A, Posada D, Harris DJ. Evolutionary history ofTrachylepisskinks in the Seychelles islands: introgressive hybridization, morphological evolution and geographic structure. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Sara Rocha
- CIBIO; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; Campus Agrário de Vairão; Rua Padre Armando Quintas; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
- Departamento de Bioquímica; Genética e Inmunología; Facultad de Biología; Universidad de Vigo; Vigo 36310 Spain
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- CIBIO; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; Campus Agrário de Vairão; Rua Padre Armando Quintas; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
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- CIBIO; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; Campus Agrário de Vairão; Rua Padre Armando Quintas; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Ciências; Rua do Campo Alegre FC4; 4169-007 Porto Portugal
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- Departamento de Bioquímica; Genética e Inmunología; Facultad de Biología; Universidad de Vigo; Vigo 36310 Spain
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- CIBIO; Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos; Campus Agrário de Vairão; Rua Padre Armando Quintas; 4485-661 Vairão Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Ciências; Rua do Campo Alegre FC4; 4169-007 Porto Portugal
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Cutuli G, Cannicci S, Vannini M, Fratini S. Influence of male courtship intensity and male-male competition on paternity distribution in Hermann's tortoise,Testudo hermanni hermanni(Chelonia: Testudinidae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Giulia Cutuli
- Department of Biology; University of Florence; via Madonna del Piano 6 I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
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- Department of Biology; University of Florence; via Madonna del Piano 6 I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
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- Department of Biology; University of Florence; via Madonna del Piano 6 I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
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- Department of Biology; University of Florence; via Madonna del Piano 6 I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
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Pérez i de Lanuza G, Font E, Carazo P. Color-assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lacertid lizard. Behav Ecol 2012. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ars164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Ribeiro LB, Gogliath M, Sales RFDD, Freire EMX. Mating behavior and female accompaniment in the whiptail lizard Cnemidophorus ocellifer (Squamata, Teiidae) in the Caatinga region of northeastern Brazil. BIOTA NEOTROPICA 2011. [DOI: 10.1590/s1676-06032011000400031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We report here a set of observations on mating behavior and female accompaniment by the whiptail lizard Cnemidophorus ocellifer in an area of Caatinga (xerophilous open forests) in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil. We observed a stationary male lizard performing repeated vibratory movements of the pelvis and tail base upon the sandy soil. Since that male was in front of a burrow in which a female of the same species was sheltered, we hypothesize that this behavior may be part of a courtship display. We continued the observation and later, when the female emerged from the burrow, the male climbed on her and the copulation occurred. The incident of accompaniment observed was characterized by one male continuously accompanying a female during foraging. Plausible functional explanations for a male accompany a female include mating guarding, post-copulatory courtship, and sperm loading. By accompanying females, males would be guaranteeing insemination by multiple copulation and stimulation of the female, and protecting their paternity by chasing away other males, diminishing the chances of extra-pair copulations.
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- Leonardo Barros Ribeiro
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil; Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Brasil
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Richmond JQ, Jockusch EL, Latimer AM. Mechanical reproductive isolation facilitates parallel speciation in western North American scincid lizards. Am Nat 2011; 178:320-32. [PMID: 21828989 DOI: 10.1086/661240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Mechanical reproductive barriers have been dismissed as a major driver of animal speciation, yet the extent to which such barriers cause reproductive isolation in most animal groups is largely unknown and rarely tested. In this study, we used hierarchical Bayesian modeling of mate compatibility experiments to show that body size divergence in lizards of the Plestiodon skiltonianus complex contributes to reproductive isolation in at least three ways: males preferably court females that are more similar in size, females reject males that are highly divergent in size, and the size difference of a male and female in copula constrains the ability to align the genitalia for intromission. We used a predictive model to estimate the contributions of behavioral and mechanical barriers to reproductive isolation between populations with differing degrees of size divergence. This model shows that the mechanical barrier is more important than behavioral barriers at small and intermediate degrees of size divergence, suggesting that it acts earlier during speciation when body morphology is more similar between diverging lineages. Given that correlated divergence in size and ecology is common in animals, similar constraints imposed by the geometry of the mating posture may apply to a variety of major animal lineages and merit further attention in speciation research.
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- Jonathan Q Richmond
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA.
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Ancona S, Drummond H, Zaldívar-Rae J. Male whiptail lizards adjust energetically costly mate guarding to male–male competition and female reproductive value. Anim Behav 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Fitze PS, Cote J, Clobert J. Mating order-dependent female mate choice in the polygynandrous common lizard Lacerta vivipara. Oecologia 2009; 162:331-41. [PMID: 19779935 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1463-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2009] [Accepted: 08/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Recent studies indicate that directional female mate choice and order-dependent female mate choice importantly contribute to non-random mating patterns. In species where females prefer larger sized males, disentangling different hypotheses leading to non-random mating patterns is especially difficult, given that male size usually correlates with behaviours that may lead to non-random mating (e.g. size-dependent emergence from hibernation, male fighting ability). Here we investigate female mate choice and order-dependent female mate choice in the polygynandrous common lizard (Lacerta vivipara). By sequentially presenting males in random order to females, we exclude non-random mating patterns potentially arising due to intra-sexual selection (e.g. male-male competition), trait-dependent encounter probabilities, trait-dependent conspicuousness, or trait-dependent emergence from hibernation. To test for order-dependent female mate choice we investigate whether the previous mating history affects female choice. We show that body size and body condition of the male with which a female mated for the first time were bigger and better, respectively, than the average body size and body condition of the rejected males. There was a negative correlation between body sizes of first and second copulating males. This indicates that female mate choice is dependent on the previous mating history and it shows that the female's choice criteria are non-static, i.e. non-directional. Our study therefore suggests that context-dependent female mate choice may not only arise due to genotype-environment interactions, but also due to other female mating strategies, i.e. order-dependent mate choice. Thus context-dependent female mate choice might be more frequent than previously thought.
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- Patrick S Fitze
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Calle José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
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Males Distinguish between Former Female Residents of Their Territories and Unfamiliar, Nonresident Females as Preferred Mating Partners in the Lizard Anolis sagrei. J HERPETOL 2008. [DOI: 10.1670/07-1931.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Zaldívar-Rae J, Drummond H, Ancona-Martínez S, Manríquez-Morán NL, Méndez-De La Cruz FR. Seasonal Breeding in the Western Mexican Whiptail Lizard Aspidoscelis costata on Isla Isabel, Nayarit, Mexico. SOUTHWEST NAT 2008. [DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2008)53[175:sbitwm]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Experimental assessment of ecological and phenotypic factors affecting male mating success and polyandry in northern watersnakes, Nerodia sipedon. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0026-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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López P, Martín J. Effects of female presence on intrasexual aggression in male lizards,Podarcis hispanicus. Aggress Behav 2002. [DOI: 10.1002/ab.10026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Reunion vigour: an experimental test of the mate guarding hypothesis in the monogamous sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa). J Zool (1987) 2002. [DOI: 10.1017/s0952836902000936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Shine R, O'connor D, Lemaster M, Mason R. Pick on someone your own size: ontogenetic shifts in mate choice by male garter snakes result in size-assortative mating. Anim Behav 2001. [DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Monogamy is relatively rarely reported in taxa other than birds. The reproductive system of many lizard species appears to involve multiple mating partners for both the male and the female. However, short-term monogamous relationships have been reported in some lizard species, either where the male defends a territory that is only occupied by a single adult female, or where males stay with females for a period of time after mating, apparently to guard against rival males. There are a few reported cases of more prolonged monogamous relationships in lizards, with the Australian sleepy lizard, Tiliqua rugosa, the best studied example. Adult males and females of this species form monogamous pairs for an extended period before mating each spring, and they select the same partner in successive years. The paper reviews possible functions of monogamy in this and other lizard species, and suggests that the additional perspective from studying lizards may enrich our overall understanding of monogamous behaviour.
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Harari AR, Handler AM, Landolt PJ. Size-assortative mating, male choice and female choice in the curculionid beetle Diaprepes abbreviatus. Anim Behav 1999; 58:1191-1200. [PMID: 10600139 DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In the beetle Diaprepes abbreviatus (L.) females are larger on average than males, as indicated by elytra length. Size-assortative matings were observed in wild populations in Florida and in laboratory mating experiments. We tested three mechanisms for this size-assortative mating: (1) mate availability; (2) mating constraints; and (3) mate choice. We found that mate choice influenced size-assortative mating by: (1) large and small males preferring to mate with large females; (2) large males successfully competing for large females, leaving small males to mate with small females; and (3) females accepting large males as mates more readily than small males. Males increased their reproductive success by mating with larger, more fecund females. They transferred protein to females during mating. Copyright 1999 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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