Sexual voyeurs and copiers: social copying and the audience effect on male mate choice in the guppy

Auld, Heather L.; Godin, Jean‐Guy J.

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“…We asked if individual focal males would spend more time associating with the previously rejected female of a pair of stimulus females after focal males had been able to observe another (model) male consort the rejected female. Previous studies confirmed that information obtained during MCC can indeed weaken or override intrinsic preferences for certain phenotypes during female [26,[36][37][38] and male mate choice [14,[31][32][33][34].…”

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“…More recent studies, however, have started to acknowledge that also males copy the mate choice of other males [9]. Examples of male MCC come from an array of species, including a sex-role reversed pipefish, sticklebacks, darters and especially live bearing fishes [14,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We investigated so-called 'audience effects' [43,44] during which males alter their mate choice behavior strategically in response to rival presence [45][46][47]. Poeciliid males, when faced with a rival male during their mate choice (which may observe and later copy their mating decisions) lower their sexual effort and conceal their mate preference, or they even trick their observers by interacting with the previously non-preferred female [32,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54].…”

Section: Copying Tendencies-part Of a Social Responsiveness Syndrome?mentioning

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Does Individual Variation in Male Mate Choice Copying Reflect Differences in Social Responsiveness?

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Li²,

Chen³

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Does Individual Variation in Male Mate Choice Copying Reflect Differences in Social Responsiveness?

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Chen³

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“…Jirotkul 1999) and presence of sexual competitors (e.g. Auld and Godin 2015). A lack of focus on these important factors in salmonid mate choice and reproductive success studies could account for our limited understanding about fitness differences between wild and hatchery fish populations (e.g.…”

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Advancing mate choice studies in salmonids

Auld

Noakes

Banks

2019

Rev Fish Biol Fisheries

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Mate choice in most organisms is not random, but determined by a suite of interacting traits and environmental factors. While the selective pressures underlying differences in mate choice between species, populations, individuals and even within individuals has been gaining interest, there still remains unexplained variation in mate preferences especially in non-model systems. Despite being of social, environmental and economic importance there is comparatively little known about how salmonids and other tetraploids make mate choice decisions in the wild and the resultant reproductive success (i.e. the number of offspring which survive to sexual maturity). Resolving questions related to salmonid mate choice is of particular importance given that humans have been supplementing salmon populations through aquaculture for decades. Despite these efforts, hatchery produced fish have lower reproductive success relative to their wild counterparts and salmon populations are declining. Most studies on mate choice and reproductive success in salmonids focus on body size and major histocompatibility complex based choice. However, mate choice can also be affected by other factors including other genetic factors, predation risk and social environment. Here, we (a) synthesize what is presently known about mate choice and reproductive success in salmonids, (b) identify gaps in knowledge and areas where there is a lack of consensus in results, and (c) suggest interdisciplinary ways of advancing our understanding of mate choice in salmonids and other polyploids.

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“…Mate‐choice copying occurs when an individual is altering his or her mate choice decision due to an observed mate choice decision of conspecifics. In P. reticulata , it has been shown that females as well as males copy the mate choice of same sex conspecifics (Auld & Godin, ; Dugatkin, , , ). Likewise, P. mexicana and P. latipinna use public information during mate choice (Gierszewski et al, ; Heubel et al, ; Schlupp et al, ; Schlupp & Ryan, ; Witte et al, ; Witte & Ryan, ; Witte & Ryan, ) as well as P. formosa , which copies the mate choice of other females as well (Heubel et al, ).…”

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It's in the eye of the beholder: visual lateralisation in response to the social environment in poeciliids

Fuss

Nöbel

Witte

2019

Journal of Fish Biology

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The social environment offers fish complex information about the quality, performance, personality and other cues of potential mates and competitors simultaneously. It is likely, therefore, that the environmental information regarding the context of mate choice is perceived and processed differently in species and sexes in respect to lateralisation. The present study comparatively assessed visual lateralisation behaviour in response to different social or sexual stimuli in three closely related poeciliid species (P. latipinna, P. mexicana, P. formosa) in comparison to a more distantly related species (P. reticulata). Individuals were presented with four different social or sexual stimuli that were tested against a control stimulus; (a) a conspecific male, (b) a conspecific female, (c) a heterosexual conspecific pair, (d) three conspecific females (shoal). In order to approach a target stimulus, focal fish had to perform detours to the right or left of a vertically straight-shaped barrier. The three closely related poeciliid species, P. latipinna,

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Sexual voyeurs and copiers: social copying and the audience effect on male mate choice in the guppy

Cited by 42 publications

References 69 publications

Does Individual Variation in Male Mate Choice Copying Reflect Differences in Social Responsiveness?

Does Individual Variation in Male Mate Choice Copying Reflect Differences in Social Responsiveness?

Advancing mate choice studies in salmonids

It's in the eye of the beholder: visual lateralisation in response to the social environment in poeciliids

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