Experience Affects Female Responses to Male Song in the Variable Field Cricket <i>Gryllus lineaticeps</i> (Orthoptera, Gryllidae)

Wagner, William E.; Smeds, Matthew R.; Wiegmann, Daniel D.

doi:10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00700.x

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“…We minimized any habituation effects by performing phonotaxis trials just after the onset of sexual receptivity (Sakaluk 1982). Finally, the effects of recent exposure to song, 'prior male' effects, have been documented in other cricket species, and can influence subsequent mating decisions at least 20 min after exposure ( Wagner et al 2001). We therefore removed females from the Song environment and kept them acoustically isolated for a single light cycle; all crickets experienced a minimum of 16 hours of undisturbed silence prior to testing.…”

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Acoustic experience shapes female mate choice in field crickets

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Female choice can drive the evolution of extravagant male traits. In invertebrates, the influence of prior social experience on female choice has only recently been considered. To better understand the evolutionary implications of experience-mediated plasticity in female choice, we investigated the effect of acoustic experience during rearing on female responsiveness to male song in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. Acoustic experience has unique biological relevance in this species: a morphological mutation has rendered over 90 per cent of males on the Hawaiian island of Kauai silent in fewer than 20 generations, impeding females' abilities to locate potential mates. Females reared in silent conditions mimicking Kauai were less discriminating of male calling song and more responsive to playbacks, compared with females that experienced song during rearing. Our results to our knowledge, are the first demonstration of longterm effects of acoustic experience in an arthropod, and suggest that female T. oceanicus may be able to compensate for the reduced availability of long-range male sexual signals by increasing their responsiveness to the few remaining signallers. Understanding the adaptive significance of experience-mediated plasticity in female choice provides insight into processes that facilitate rapid evolutionary change and shape sexual selection pressure in natural populations.

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“…Females were tested only once. The cross-sectional design mitigated the known effects of immediate prior acoustic experience on female phonotaxis behaviour that would have confounded our measures of responsiveness if we repeatedly tested each individual ( Wagner et al 2001).…”

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Acoustic experience shapes female mate choice in field crickets

2008

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“…These results suggest that hormones affect the intercept, but probably not the slope of the UF. Plasticity in mating decisions has been found to be related not only to female reproductive stage, but also to female condition (Burley and Foster, 2006;Eraly et al, 2009;Fisher and Rosenthal, 2006;Fawcett and Johnstone, 2003a;Moskalik and Uetz, 2011;Poulin, 1994;Slagsvold et al, 1988), to age (Bateman et al, 2001;Kodric-Brown and Nicoletto, 2001;Moore and Moore, 2001), and to ecological (Booksmythe et al, 2008;Chaine and Lyon, 2008;Forsgren, 1992;Godin and Briggs, 1996;Gong and Gibson, 1996;Milner et al, 2010) and social conditions (Bailey andZuk, 2008, 2009;Collins, 1995;Hebets, 2003;Izzo and Gray, 2011;Lehmann, 2007;Rebar et al, 2011;Wagner et al, 2001). In particular, strong evidence for an effect of social experience on mating preferences has been provided by studies on the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus.…”

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“…Castellano et al / Behavioural Processes xxx (2012) xxx-xxx As mentioned above, however, variation in female choosiness may be due to a variation in the decision rule (DR) rather than in the decision variable (DV). Indeed, this pattern has been usually explained as evidence for a flexible threshold in decision rules (Wagner et al, 2001). Since the two hypotheses are not necessarily alternative to each other, it may not be easy to devise an empirical experiment able to contrast them.…”

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Computational mate choice: Theory and empirical evidence

Castellano

Cadeddu

Cermelli

2012

Behavioural Processes

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a b s t r a c tThe present review is based on the thesis that mate choice results from information-processing mechanisms governed by computational rules and that, to understand how females choose their mates, we should identify which are the sources of information and how they are used to make decisions. We describe mate choice as a three-step computational process and for each step we present theories and review empirical evidence. The first step is a perceptual process. It describes the acquisition of evidence, that is, how females use multiple cues and signals to assign an attractiveness value to prospective mates (the preference function hypothesis). The second step is a decisional process. It describes the construction of the decision variable (DV), which integrates evidence (private information by direct assessment), priors (public information), and value (perceived utility) of prospective mates into a quantity that is used by a decision rule (DR) to produce a choice. We make the assumption that females are optimal Bayesian decision makers and we derive a formal model of DV that can explain the effects of preference functions, mate copying, social context, and females' state and condition on the patterns of mate choice. The third step of mating decision is a deliberative process that depends on the DRs. We identify two main categories of DRs (absolute and comparative rules), and review the normative models of mate sampling tactics associated to them. We highlight the limits of the normative approach and present a class of computational models (sequential-sampling models) that are based on the assumption that DVs accumulate noisy evidence over time until a decision threshold is reached. These models force us to rethink the dichotomy between comparative and absolute decision rules, between discrimination and recognition, and even between rational and irrational choice. Since they have a robust biological basis, we think they may represent a useful theoretical tool for behavioural ecologist interested in integrating proximate and ultimate causes of mate choice.

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“…data). Presenting all females with the same average song in the first test ensured we would have the opportunity to detect differential responses to the test songs and that all females had exactly the same adult experience with song (experience with different song types is known to affect female responses in this species; Wagner et al 2001b). Second, the initial test provided a measure of female responsiveness to song that could be used to control for differences in female responsiveness in the preference test.…”

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The Relative Importance of Different Direct Benefits in the Mate Choices of a Field Cricket

Wagner

Basolo

2007

Evolution

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Discussions about the evolution of female mating preferences have often suggested that females should express multiple strong preferences when different male traits are correlated with different mating benefits, yet few studies have directly tested this hypothesis by comparing the strength of female preferences for male traits known to be correlated with different benefits. In the variable field cricket, Gryllus lineaticeps, females receive fecundity and fertility benefits from mating with males with higher chirp rates and life-span benefits from mating with males with longer chirp durations. Although females prefer higher chirp rates and longer chirp durations when the other trait is held constant, it is possible that they give priority to one of these song traits when both vary. In this study, we examined the relative importance of chirp rate and chirp duration in female mate choice using single-stimulus presentations of songs that varied in both chirp rate and chirp duration. Females expressed both directional and stabilizing preferences based on chirp rate, responding most strongly to a chirp rate approximately one standard deviation above the population mean. Females did not express preferences based on chirp duration, and did not express correlational preferences.These results suggest that females may give priority to the reproductive benefits provided by males that produce higher chirp rates.

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Experience Affects Female Responses to Male Song in the Variable Field Cricket Gryllus lineaticeps (Orthoptera, Gryllidae)

Cited by 87 publications

References 30 publications

Acoustic experience shapes female mate choice in field crickets

Acoustic experience shapes female mate choice in field crickets

Computational mate choice: Theory and empirical evidence

The Relative Importance of Different Direct Benefits in the Mate Choices of a Field Cricket

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