Unattractiveness of mated females to males in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

King, B. H.; Saporito, K. B.; Ellison, Jennie; Bratzke, R. M.

doi:10.1007/s00265-004-0863-9

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“…For example, males prefer virgin females because of their low preference (King, Saporito, Ellison, & Bratzke, 2005), high probability of fertilization (Bonduriansky, 2001) and advantage in sperm competition on the first copulation in some cases (Engqvist & Reinhold, 2006;Wedell, Gage & Parker, 2002). Males also prefer large females (Dosen & Montgomerie, 2004) because they produce more eggs than small females.…”

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Male guppies change courtship behaviour in response to their own quality relative to that of a rival male

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Keywords: female preference guppy male preference mate choice sexual selection Compared with female mate choice, male mate choice has been an important but minor topic in the past two decades. In the guppy, Poecilia reticulata, a male approaching a female abandons his courtship when a rival male appears next to the focal female; however, the effect of the relative quality of the males on this behavioural change is unknown. We show here that male guppies abandon their approach to a female only when the rival male is phenotypically superior. Both natural and artificially induced brightly coloured males continued to approach a female even when the rival male was brightly coloured, but both natural and induced dull-coloured males abandoned their approach to a female when the rival was brightly coloured. Males decided their behaviours on the basis of their own appearance, not on their genotypes, because artificially induced brightly and dull-coloured brothers differed in their behaviour. Our results show that male mate choice behaviour is finely tuned to maximize the probability of acceptance by the approached female.

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“…Male mate choice has been studied in few parasitoid species (King et al 2005), only one of them being an egg parasitoid. In general, males should favor females that bring them a larger fitness gain either because they live longer, are more fecund or can find or subdue better hosts.…”

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Reproduction and Immature Development of Egg Parasitoids

Boivin

2009

Egg Parasitoids in Agroecosystems With Emphasis on Trichogramma

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“…Males, for example, have to perceive female receptivity to concentrate efforts in potentially successful interactions (Bonduriansky 2001;King et al 2005) since courting a nonreceptive female would imply a waste of time and energy (Hoefler 2008). Females usually signal their receptivity by several ways, among which we may cite acoustic signals (e.g., Wirmer et al 2010), pheromones (e.g., Maxwell et al 2010), and mechanical signals (e.g., Waage 1984).…”

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Male and female interactions during courtship of the Neotropical damselfly Mnesarete pudica (Odonata: Calopterygidae)

Ferreira

Bispo

2012

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The courtship behavior in calopterygid damselflies is well documented; however, the behavior of the large Neotropical genus Mnesarete is still unknown. Thus, here we present the first description of male-female interactions in Mnesarete pudica, a common damselfly in the Neotropical Savanna. The male-female interactions were composed of courtship displays, mounting, and chasing. The courtship behavior lasted 5.23±1.65 s and is very different from other calopterygids, consisting of hovering flights and the cross display made in front of females rather than on the oviposition site. The arrival and presence of females on a male territory are not sufficient to initiate sexual interactions; the male usually interacts with the female only after a patrolling flight. The females may present three distinct behaviors in response to male approach: (a) warding off signal (31.53%), (b) escape (28.83%), (c) and wing flipping (39.64%), which seems to stimulate male courtship. Females also may sit still, which induces males to react as if females were signaling they are willing to mate. In this paper, we also suggest that male courtship behavior is mediated by female signals.

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Unattractiveness of mated females to males in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

Cited by 50 publications

References 28 publications

Male guppies change courtship behaviour in response to their own quality relative to that of a rival male

Male guppies change courtship behaviour in response to their own quality relative to that of a rival male

Reproduction and Immature Development of Egg Parasitoids

Male and female interactions during courtship of the Neotropical damselfly Mnesarete pudica (Odonata: Calopterygidae)

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