Correction: The Effect of Female Quality on Male Ejaculatory Expenditure and Reproductive Success in a Praying Mantid

Jayaweera, Anuradhi; Barry, Katherine L.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137814

PLoS ONE

2015

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137814

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Correction: The Effect of Female Quality on Male Ejaculatory Expenditure and Reproductive Success in a Praying Mantid

Anuradhi Jayaweera¹,

Katherine L. Barry²

Abstract: The Funding section is incorrect. The complete, correct Funding statement is: The Joyce W. Vickery Scientific Research Fund from the Linnean Society of NSW (http://linneansocietynsw. org.au/grants.html) funded this research. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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Males Become Choosier in Response to Manipulations of Female Wing Ornaments in Dry Season Bicyclus anynana Butterflies

Bhardwaj

Monteiro

2017

Journal of Insect Science

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Male investment towards reproduction is substantial in some species, and this leads to the evolution of choosy males. Male choice is often directed towards female phenotypes that are good indicators of fecundity such as body size, age, or virgin status, and often acts in the same direction as fecundity selection. In insects, only a few examples exist where male choice is directed towards female ornaments as proxies Butler of female quality. Here, we use dry season males of the sex-role reversed butterfly species Bicyclus anynana to test for differences in male choosiness and investment towards females of varying attractiveness using ornament-manipulations. Male reproductive investment in this species is in the form of a nuptial gift, a spermatophore, given to females upon mating. Males were placed in cages with either wild-type ornamented females or with nonornamented females (center of the dorsal forewing eyespots painted over), and time to mating, duration of mating, and longevity of males and females after a single mating were measured. Ornament manipulations consisted of blocking the UV-reflective scales in the center of the dorsal forewing eyespots of females, a known sexual ornament. Males displayed lower latency to mate and longer mating durations with ornamented females. The longer mating duration did not, however, translate in the transfer of a nuptial gift that increased female longevity or reduced male longevity. Instead, we propose that longer mating durations with ornamented females may represent increased mate guarding behavior or increased sperm transfer.

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Males Become Choosier in Response to Manipulations of Female Wing Ornaments in Dry Season Bicyclus anynana Butterflies

Bhardwaj

Monteiro

2017

Journal of Insect Science

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Correction: The Effect of Female Quality on Male Ejaculatory Expenditure and Reproductive Success in a Praying Mantid

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Males Become Choosier in Response to Manipulations of Female Wing Ornaments in Dry Season Bicyclus anynana Butterflies

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