Mate choice in the polymorphic African swallowtail butterfly, Papilio dardanus: male-like females may avoid sexual harassment

Cook, Stephanie; Vernon, Jennifer G.; Bateson, Melissa; Guilford, Tim

doi:10.1006/anbe.1994.1053

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“…For example, one morph may be less attractive but more competitive than another, resulting in equal mating success (Kingston et al 2003; see also Cook et al 1994). In other words, different components of sexual selection (i.e.…”

Section: Mate-choice Rules In Polymorphic Speciesmentioning

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Sexual selection in genetic colour-polymorphic species: a review of experimental studies and perspectives

Roulin

Bize

2006

J Ethol

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Sexual selection theory has primarily focussed on the role of mating preferences for the best individuals in the evolution of condition-dependent ornaments, traits that signal absolute quality. Because the most suitable mate for one individual is not always the best for others, however, we argue that nondirectional mate choice can promote the evolution of alternative morphs that are not condition-dependent in their expression (i.e. genetic polymorphism). We list the different mate-choice rules (i.e. all individuals have the same preference; preference depends on the chooser's morph; individuals mate preferentially with conspecifics displaying an uncommon or the most frequent morph) and review experimental studies that investigated mate choice in natural populations of colour-polymorphic animals. Our review emphasises that although the experimental data support the idea that sexual selection plays an important role in the evolution of genetic colour polymorphism in many different ways, little is known about the adaptive value of each mate-choice strategy and about their implication in the evolutionary stability of colour polymorphism. One way of solving this problem is to determine the adaptive function of colour morphs, a worthwhile objective, because better understanding of mate-choice rules in polymorphic species should provide important insights into sexual-selection processes and, in turn, into the maintenance of genetic variation.

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Section: Mate-choice Rules In Polymorphic Speciesmentioning

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Sexual selection in genetic colour-polymorphic species: a review of experimental studies and perspectives

Roulin

Bize

2006

J Ethol

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“…Clutton-Brock et al 1992;Rowe et al 1994). Another adaptation in response to costly superfluous male mating attempts may be female-limited polymorphism, where one female morph may avoid recognition by males through resembling the male's phenotype (Robertson 1985;Cook et al 1994). Femalelimited color polymorphism is observed in a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, including birds (Galeotti et al 2003), fish (Turner et al 2001), lizards (Vercken et al 2007) and insects (Nielsen and Watt 2000).…”

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Differences in Mating Propensity Between Immature Female Color Morphs in the Damselfly Ischnura elegans (Insecta: Odonata)

2009

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Female-limited color polymorphisms occur in a variety of animal taxa where excessive male sexual harassment may explain the coexistence of multiple female color morphs. In the color polymorphic damselfly Ischnura elegans, mature and immature female color morphs coexist at the mating site where males are in search for suitable mating partners. Here, we study male preference and female mating propensity for the two immature female morphs. As would be expected, compared to mature morphs, both immature female morphs mate much less. Within immature females, one morph consistently mates more frequently compared to the other morph, a pattern that is similar for the ontogenetically corresponding mature female morphs. Preference experiments with the two differently colored immature female morphs, however, did not indicate male mate preference for either morph. Low mating frequencies of immature females at natural sites in combination with relatively high attractiveness of immature models in terms of male preference indicate that female behavior influences female mating success.

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“…In some species of butterflies (Cook et al, 1994) and damselflies (Fincke, 1994 and references therein) malemimicking females coexist with cryptic, ordinary females. This system of female polymorphism is probably stable because male-like females evade sexual harassment at high male concentrations but have lower mating chances when males are scarce (Hinnekint, 1987; for an alternative view see Johnson, 1975).…”

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Alternative reproductive tactics in females: the case of size polymorphism in winged ant queens

Rüppell¹,

Heınze²

1999

Insectes Sociaux

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Alternative reproductive tactics are common in males but rather rare in females. In this respect, ants are apparently an interesting exception. Ant queens can either start a new colony on their own or utilize the work force of existing colonies for dependent colony founding. As the success of these different options depends on body reserves of the queens, the finding of two different classes of alate queens in some ant species that differ only in size strongly suggests alternative modes of reproduction. Studies of queen size polymorphism from a number of ant species differ in scope and also in their results. Nevertheless, across taxa evidence exists that small queens found dependently while their larger conspecifics found colonies on their own. However, in most cases it is not clear whether the small queens exploit unrelated colonies (intraspecific "social parasitism") or return to their natal colonies. In some ant species the queen size polymorphism might constitute an evolutionary transition to either interspecific social parasitism or a morphologically more pronounced queen polymorphism linked to dispersal. In others, queen size polymorphism might be a stable phenomenon. Although it is important in this context whether queen size polymorphism is caused by a genetic polymorphism or phenotypic plasticity, so far no conclusive evidence about proximate mechanisms of size determination has been presented. Some considerations are made about the question why female alternative reproductive tactics correlated with morphological adaptations are comparatively widespread in ants.

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Mate choice in the polymorphic African swallowtail butterfly, Papilio dardanus: male-like females may avoid sexual harassment

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Sexual selection in genetic colour-polymorphic species: a review of experimental studies and perspectives

Sexual selection in genetic colour-polymorphic species: a review of experimental studies and perspectives

Differences in Mating Propensity Between Immature Female Color Morphs in the Damselfly Ischnura elegans (Insecta: Odonata)

Alternative reproductive tactics in females: the case of size polymorphism in winged ant queens

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