Bubble nest habitat characteristics of wild Siamese fighting fish

Jaroensutasinee, Mullica

doi:10.1006/jfbi.2000.1538

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“…1986; Dugatkin & FitzGerald 1997). In addition, females should be choosy because of the important role that males play in raising offspring (Bronstein 1982; Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee 2001a,b, 2003). Despite the large number of studies focused on aggression in B. splendens , much less is known about the relationships among aggression, courtship behavior, and mate choice in this species.…”

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Mate Choice and Spawning Success in the Fighting FishBetta splendens: the Importance of Body Size, Display Behavior and Nest Size

2006

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Courtship displays should be exaggerated enough to attract mates and yet tempered so as not to deter them. We tested this hypothesis in the fighting fish Betta splendens by studying courtship displays and body size and their relationships with male parental quality and female fecundity, as well as the effects of display behavior and body size on mate choice decisions and spawning success. Because of their high degree of parental investment, males are expected to be discriminating in their choice of mates. Males who displayed more frequently built larger nests, a measure of parental quality, but larger males did not. When females were paired with males with high display rates, however, the pair had fewer eggs in their nest, even when accounting for female body mass. In a mate choice test using computer‐generated male stimuli that differed only in display behavior, females showed no preferences for displaying males vs. non‐displaying males, or for males with higher display rates vs. lower display rates. In similar tests in which the computer‐generated males differed only in size, females preferred larger males, but also preferred males that differed with respect to body size (negative assortative mating). Males preferred computer‐generated females that performed courtship displays over non‐displaying females, but showed no preferences for female body size. Neither a female's body size nor her display behavior was a significant predictor of her fecundity as estimated by the number of eggs released during spawning. Thus, our results suggest that female B. splendens must balance male parental quality (nest size) with the risk of potentially disruptive or dangerous behavior during spawning, and that females may minimize these risks through negative size‐assortative mating. Female display behavior, while unrelated to fecundity in our study, may attract males because it indicates reproductive readiness or serves a species‐recognition function.

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Mate Choice and Spawning Success in the Fighting FishBetta splendens: the Importance of Body Size, Display Behavior and Nest Size

2006

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“…0, 0·48 and 0·96 cm). Male L S was 2·91 0·24 cm (mean .., n=70) and female L S 2·43 0·52 cm (n=70) (Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee, 2001). L S was measured as the distance from the anterior-most point of the upper jaw to the end of the caudal peduncle.…”

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“…Typical fighting fish habitats in Thailand are quiet freshwater ponds with muddy bottoms or flooded rice paddy fields (Gordon & Axelrod, 1968). Unlike domesticated fighting fish, wild fighting fish are small, inconspicuous, and dull brown or green in colour (Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee, 2001). They hide beneath water plants, presumably to minimize predation from turtles, snakes, fish-eating egrets, herons and kingfishers.…”

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“…Fighting usually involves physical damage and can result in death. Females are duller in colour and usually smaller than males (Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee, 2001). After the females finish laying eggs, the males chase the mated females out of the bubble nest areas and solely provide parental care for developing eggs and fry.…”

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“…: +66 75 672005; fax: +66 75 672004; email: jmullica@wu.ac.th During the breeding season, male Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens Regan establish and defend territories in the water column near the surface which are centred on a bubble nest built by the males (Forselius, 1957). They construct their bubble nests in rice paddy fields, entice females to spawn in them and then care for the developing eggs and newly hatched fry (Gordon & Axelrod, 1968;Jaroensutasinee & Jaroensutasinee, 2001). The ability to compete for mates is therefore critical to the reproductive success of male Siamese fighting fish through male-male competition and possible direct benefits of female mate choice.…”

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Sexual size dimorphism and male contest in wild Siamese fighting fish

Jaroensutasinee

2001

Journal of Fish Biology

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Larger males of the wild Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens were more successful in male contests. There were no differences in fighting duration among treatments. Comparing agonistic behaviour between large and small males in 1 and 2 .. treatments, larger males attacked, chased and performed total agonistic behaviour more than smaller males. There were no differences between larger and smaller males concerning other agonistic behaviour during fighting. Females presented with two potential mates of different sizes did not prefer larger males. 2001 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles

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Fighting Fish (Betta splendens) Bubble Nests Do Not Inhibit Microbial Growth

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Clotfelter

2012

J. Exp. Zool.

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Some organisms produce antimicrobial substances in nesting foam to favorably manipulate the environment to which their developing offspring are exposed. We tested if fighting fish Betta splendens foamy nest material, which is comprised of bubbles produced in the oral cavity of nesting males, has antimicrobial properties against a pathogenic bacteria (Edwardsiella tarda), a nonpathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli), or a pathogenic oomycete (Saprolegnia parasitica). We also tested if exposure to nest material increases larval survival by performing in vitro fertilizations and individually incubating eggs in bubble nest extract or tank water (control). Our results show no evidence of antimicrobial properties of bubble nests. On the contrary, bubble nests provided favorable microenvironments for the growth of Saprolegnia parasitica. Our results confirm earlier work citing the importance of male nest attendance, and suggest that the mechanism responsible for decreased survival in the absence of attending males is pathogenic microbes. J. Exp. Zool. 317A:481‐487, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Bubble nest habitat characteristics of wild Siamese fighting fish

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Mate Choice and Spawning Success in the Fighting FishBetta splendens: the Importance of Body Size, Display Behavior and Nest Size

Mate Choice and Spawning Success in the Fighting FishBetta splendens: the Importance of Body Size, Display Behavior and Nest Size

Sexual size dimorphism and male contest in wild Siamese fighting fish

Fighting Fish (Betta splendens) Bubble Nests Do Not Inhibit Microbial Growth

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