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Skinner M, Hazell M, Jameson J, Lougheed SC. Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler's gartersnakes ( Thamnophis butleri). Behav Ecol 2024; 35:arad095. [PMID: 38193014 PMCID: PMC10773305 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arad095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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Sex- and age-based social structures have been well documented in animals with visible aggregations. However, very little is known about the social structures of snakes. This is most likely because snakes are often considered non-social animals and are particularly difficult to observe in the wild. Here, we show that wild Butler's Gartersnakes have an age and sex assorted social structure similar to more commonly studied social animals. To demonstrate this, we use data from a 12-year capture-mark-recapture study to identify social interactions using social network analyses. We find that the social structures of Butler's Gartersnakes comprise sex- and age-assorted intra-species communities with older females often central and age segregation partially due to patterns of study site use. In addition, we find that females tended to increase in sociability as they aged while the opposite occurred in males. We also present evidence that social interaction may provide fitness benefits, where snakes that were part of a social network were more likely to have improved body condition. We demonstrate that conventional capture data can reveal valuable information on social structures in cryptic species. This is particularly valuable as research has consistently demonstrated that understanding social structure is important for conservation efforts. Additionally, research on the social patterns of animals without obvious social groups provides valuable insight into the evolution of group living.
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- Morgan Skinner
- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Queen’s University, 99 University Ave, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- WSP, 1600 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West, 11th floor, Montreal, QC H3H 1P9, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Queen’s University, 99 University Ave, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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Do MS, Son SJ, Jung JH, Lee SC, Choi G, Nam HK. Effects of environmental factors and intraspecific niche overlap on the body and ecological characteristics of red-tongued pit vipers (Gloydius ussuriensis). Sci Rep 2023; 13:21310. [PMID: 38042889 PMCID: PMC10693586 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48707-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/04/2023] Open
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The body condition of a snake species provides important physiological, morphological, and ecological information that elucidates its habits, life cycle, and competitive relationships. We measured the body size and condition of the wild Gloydius ussuriensis population in South Korea from 2018 to 2022, analyzed the degree of intraspecific niche overlap, and identified the geographic and climatic factors affecting their body condition. We found that the females were longer than the males. The body condition index (BCI) of G. ussuriensis differed depending on sex and season; the BCI of the females and males was highest in August and October, respectively. Environmental factors related to altitude and temperature affected the body condition of G. ussuriensis; BCI increased as the mean annual temperature and winter temperature increased; however, it increased when the annual temperature range decreased. The mean Pinaka index was 0.96, indicating a high degree of niche overlap; however, the niche overlap among the neonates was less than that among the adults and juveniles. To elucidate the causes of niche overlap and mechanisms behind the intraspecific competition among G. ussuriensis individuals, the habitat and utilization of food resources at different development stages of G. ussuriensis should be further investigated.
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- Min Seock Do
- National Institute of Biological Resources, Seo-gu, Incheon, 22689, South Korea
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- National Science Museum, Daejeon, 34143, Republic of Korea
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- Honam National Institute of Biological Resources, 99 Gohadoan-gil, Mokpo, 58762, South Korea
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- Department of Biology, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012, South Korea
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- MEET GREEN, Seocheon, 33646, Republic of Korea
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- National Institute of Biological Resources, Seo-gu, Incheon, 22689, South Korea.
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Shine R, Shine TG, Brown GP, Udyawer V. Sexual dimorphism in aipysurine sea snakes (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae). ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2023; 10:231261. [PMID: 38094274 PMCID: PMC10716647 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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The transition from terrestrial to aquatic life by hydrophiine elapid snakes modified targets of natural selection and likely affected sexual selection also. Thus, the shift to marine life also might have affected sexual dimorphism. Our measurements of 419 preserved specimens of six species of aipysurine snakes (genera Emydocephalus and Aipysurus) revealed sexual dimorphism in mean adult snout-vent length (SVL), body width relative to SVL, lengths and widths of heads and tails relative to SVL, and eye diameter relative to head length. Females averaged larger than males in all taxa, and generally were wider-bodied with shorter and wider tails and smaller eyes. For other traits, sexual dimorphism varied among species: for example, relative head length ranged from male-biased to female-biased, and head shape (width relative to length) was highly dimorphic only in A. laevis. The transition to marine life may have eliminated male-male combat (reducing selection for large males) and favoured visual rather than pheromone-based mate-searching (favouring larger eyes in males). Variation in head-size dimorphism may reflect intersexual niche partitioning, with different taxa following different trajectories. Repeated evolutionary transitions from terrestrial to aquatic life in snakes provide a powerful opportunity to explore selective forces on sexually dimorphic traits.
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- R. Shine
- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, Northern Territory 0810, Australia
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Rose JP, Kim R, Schoenig EJ, Lien PC, Halstead BJ. Comparing reintroduction strategies for the endangered San Francisco gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) using demographic models. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0292379. [PMID: 37796777 PMCID: PMC10553336 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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For endangered species persisting in a few populations, reintroductions to unoccupied habitat are a popular conservation action to increase viability in the long term. Identifying the reintroduction strategy that is most likely to result in viable founder and donor populations is essential to optimally use resources available for conservation. The San Francisco gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is an endangered sub-species that persists in a small number of populations in a highly urbanized region of California. Most of the extant populations of San Francisco gartersnakes have low adult abundance and effective population size, heightening the need for establishment of more populations for insurance against the risk of extinction. We used simulations from demographic models to project the probability of quasi-extinction for reintroduced populations of San Francisco gartersnakes based on the release of neonate, juvenile, adult, or mixed-age propagules. Our simulation results indicated that the release of head-started juveniles resulted in the greatest viability of reintroduced populations, and that releases would need to continue for at least 15 years to ensure a low probability of quasi-extinction. Releasing captive-bred juvenile snakes would also have less effect on the viability of the donor population, compared to strategies that require more adult snakes to be removed from the donor population for translocation. Our models focus on snake demography, but the genetic makeup of donor, captive, and reintroduced populations will also be a major concern for any proposed reintroduction plan. This study demonstrates how modeling can be used to inform reintroduction strategies for highly imperiled species.
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- Jonathan P. Rose
- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon, California, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon, California, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon, California, United States of America
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon, California, United States of America
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Khouri RS, Almeida-Santos SM, Fernandes DS. Reproductive maturity and sexual dimorphism of a population of Amerotyphlops brongersmianus from a Restinga area in southeastern Brazil (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2023; 306:2610-2620. [PMID: 36883757 DOI: 10.1002/ar.25191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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Natural history data are important for a better understanding of distinct aspects of snake biology, and this information in scarce on Scolecophidia. Here we focus on sexual maturity and sexual dimorphism within a population of Amerotyphlops brongersmianus from the Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. The smallest sexually active male and female showed snout-vent length of 117.5 and 158.4 mm, respectively. Females had statistically significant larger body and head length sizes, whereas males had longer tails. Juveniles showed no sexual dimorphism for any analyzed feature. Secondary vitellogenic follicles had a more opaque, yellowish/darker aspect, being larger than 3.5 mm. We reinforce that in addition to traditional features for determining sexual maturity, morphological and histological characteristics of kidneys should be evaluated in males, as well as the morphology of the infundibulum in females. Histological data show development of seminiferous tubules and presence of spermatozoa in males, and infundibulum receptacles and uterine glands in females as a sign of sexual maturity. This type of information is essential for a more accurate description of data on sexual maturity, allowing access to information on the development of reproductive structures that are not available macroscopically.
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- Rebeca Stella Khouri
- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
- Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil
- Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
- Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Huo QB, Zhu BQ, Murányi D, Tierno de Figueroa JM, Zhao MY, Xiang YN, Yang YB, Du YZ. The First Study of Mating Mistakes in Stoneflies (Plecoptera) from China, with Remarks on Their Biological Implications. INSECTS 2022; 13:1102. [PMID: 36555012 PMCID: PMC9781399 DOI: 10.3390/insects13121102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Revised: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Currently, information on the biology of Plecoptera from China is scarce, particularly on mating behavior. In this paper, the existence of mating mistakes (erroneous mating attempts) involving 13 Chinese stonefly species (belonging to nine genera and three families) is reported. These erroneous mating behaviors can be included into three different categories: mating attempts between conspecific males (including the formation of erroneous mating balls), mating attempts between different taxa (including displacement attempts during copulation), and mating-related behaviors with non-living objects. From these behaviors, some aspects of stoneflies during mating, such as the physical competition between males, the sensorial mechanisms implied in triggering a mating behavior, the conditions favoring the mating mistakes, and the possible consequences of interspecific mating in the hybrid production, are discussed.
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- Qing-Bo Huo
- School of Horticulture and Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Leányka u. 6, H-3300 Eger, Hungary
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- Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing 210042, China
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- Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Leányka u. 6, H-3300 Eger, Hungary
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- School of Horticulture and Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- School of Horticulture and Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- School of Horticulture and Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- School of Horticulture and Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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Fukuyama R, Itoigawa A, Mori A. Multimale breeding aggregations by “many-friends” snakes: courtship behaviours by Malagasy Pseudoxyrhophiine snakes, Dromicodryas bernieri and D. quadrilineatus, and their sexual size dimorphism. HERPETOZOA 2022. [DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.35.e91579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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When several male snakes dispute over one female in the breeding season, two major male-male rivalries are known to occur: male-male combat and multimale breeding aggregation. The roles of male body size and the degree of sexual size dimorphism are different between these rivalries. We report field observations of mating behaviour including a multimale breeding aggregation of pseudoxyrhophiins, Dromicodryas bernieri and D. quadrilineatus, in northwestern Madagascar, which have a local name, “Maro longo”, meaning “many friends”. To examine the relationships between sexual size dimorphism and mating strategies of males, we also analysed the body size of the two species of Dromicodryas and two other pseudoxyrhophiins, Leioheterodon madagascariensis and L. modestus, which are known to exhibit the male-male combat. Our data obtained during a long-term field study showed that D. bernieri and D. quadrilineatus have female-biased sexual size dimorphism, whereas L. madagascariensis and L. modestus have male-biased sexual size dimorphism. This result conforms to the general tendency of the relationship between body size and male-male rivalry in snakes.
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Skinner M, Brown S, Kumpan LT, Miller N. Snake personality: Differential effects of development and social experience. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-022-03227-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Macartney EL, Bonduriansky R. Does female resistance to mating select for live-fast-die-young strategies in males? A comparative analysis in the genus Drosophila. J Evol Biol 2021; 35:192-200. [PMID: 34547153 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Female promiscuity is a pervasive selective force on male reproductive traits, and the strength of sexual selection is predicted to influence the trade-off between lifespan and reproduction. In species where sexual selection is intense, males are predicted to invest in sexual strategies that shorten their lifespan, potentially resulting in female-biased sexual dimorphism in longevity. However, comparative analyses have provided contrasting results, potentially due to the use of broad mating system categories or sexual size dimorphism as a proxy for sexual selection. Here, we used female remating rate (i.e. female promiscuity) as a more direct measure of sexual selection strength and conducted a phylogenetic comparative analysis of the relationship between female remating rate and sexual dimorphism in lifespan in 29 species of Drosophila. We did not find strong evidence that female remating rate was correlated with sexual dimorphism in lifespan. However, we found that male and female lifespans are positively correlated among species and that phylogeny and residual variance (i.e. variation in non-phylogenetic factors) are important in determining female remating rate, male and female lifespans separately, and the correlation between male and female lifespan. We suggest that variation in the nature of sexual competition and variation between studies could account for some of the unexplained variation among species in the relation between female remating rate and sexual dimorphism in lifespan.
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- Erin L Macartney
- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Friesen CR, Mason RT, Uhrig EJ. Postcopulatory sexual selection as a driver of sex- and population-specific kidney mass in garter snakes? Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In lizards and snakes, the kidneys produce seminal fluid in addition to having osmoregulatory functions. Therefore, in response to polyandry, kidney mass should be under selection regimes such as those influencing testes. Male red-sided garter snakes deposit a kidney-derived copulatory plug that functions in sperm competition. We first tested for intersexual differences in kidney mass and allometry in one population and found that males had kidneys twice as heavy as those of females, consistent with stronger selection on male kidney mass. Previous studies have shown that male size enhances mating success in one-on-one competition prevalent in small mating aggregations. We then examined the relationship between body size, kidney mass and testes mass in two populations with low (LD) and high (HD) mating aggregation densities. Males from the HD population had heavier testes and heavier kidneys compared with males from the LD population; HD males were also smaller in body size. Our results suggest that the strength of sexual selection, and possibly the balance between pre- and postcopulatory selection, varies in response to population size or density. However, more replication is needed to confirm the generality of these results within red-sided garter snakes and other squamate reptiles.
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- Christopher R Friesen
- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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Rodríguez-Ruiz G, Ortega J, Cuervo JJ, López P, Salvador A, Martín J. Male rock lizards may compensate reproductive costs of an immune challenge affecting sexual signals. Behav Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Sexual signals can be evolutionarily stable if they are condition dependent or costly to the signaler. One of these costs may be the trade-off between maintaining the immune system and the elaboration of ornaments. Experimental immune challenges in captivity show a reduction in the expression of sexual signals, but it is not clear whether these detrimental effects are important in nature and, more importantly, whether they have reproductive consequences. We designed a field experiment to challenge the immune system of wild male Carpetan rock lizards, Iberolacerta cyreni, with a bacterial antigen (lipopolysaccharide). The immune challenge decreased relative reflectance of ultraviolet structural and melanin-dependent sexual coloration in the throat and the lateral ocelli, whereas the carotenoid-dependent dorsal green coloration was not affected. Immune activation also decreased proportions of ergosterol and cholesta-5,7-dien-3-ol in femoral secretions. These results support a trade-off between the immune system and both visual and chemical sexual ornaments. Moreover, the reproductive success of males, estimated with DNA microsatellites, depended on the expression of some color and chemical traits. However, the immune challenge did not cause overall differences in reproductive success, although it increased with body size/age in control but not in challenged males. This suggests the use of alternative reproductive strategies (e.g., forced matings) in challenged males, particularly in smaller ones. These males might consider that their survival probabilities are low and increase reproductive effort as a form of terminal investment in spite of their “low-quality” sexual signals and potential survival costs.
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- Gonzalo Rodríguez-Ruiz
- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, Spain
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Sidari MJ, Lee AJ, Murphy SC, Sherlock JM, Dixson BJW, Zietsch BP. Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Body Characteristics Revealed in a Large Sample of Speed Daters. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/1948550619882925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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While hundreds of studies have investigated the indices that make up attractive body shapes, these studies were based on preferences measured in the laboratory using pictorial stimuli. Whether these preferences translate into real-time, face-to-face evaluations of potential partners is unclear. Here, 539 (275 female) participants in 75 laboratory-based sessions had their body dimensions measured before engaging in round-robin speed dates. After each date, they rated each other’s body, face, personality, and overall attractiveness and noted whether they would go on a date with the partner. Women with smaller waists and lower waist-to-hip ratios were found most attractive, and men with broader shoulders and higher shoulder-to-waist (or hips) ratios were found most attractive. Taller individuals were preferred by both sexes. Our results show that body dimensions associated with greater health, reproductive value (in women), and formidability (in men) influence face-to-face evaluations of attractiveness, consistent with a role of intersexual selection in shaping human bodies.
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- Morgan J. Sidari
- Centre for Psychology and Evolution, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Division of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Psychology and Evolution, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Psychology and Evolution, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Psychology and Evolution, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Wiens JJ, Tuschhoff E. Songs versus colours versus horns: what explains the diversity of sexually selected traits? Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2020; 95:847-864. [PMID: 32092241 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2019] [Revised: 01/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Papers on sexual selection often highlight the incredible diversity of sexually selected traits across animals. Yet, few studies have tried to explain why this diversity evolved. Animals use many different types of traits to attract mates and outcompete rivals, including colours, songs, and horns, but it remains unclear why, for example, some taxa have songs, others have colours, and others horns. Here, we first conduct a systematic survey of the basic diversity and distribution of different types of sexually selected signals and weapons across the animal Tree of Life. Based on this survey, we describe seven major patterns in trait diversity and distributions. We then discuss 10 unanswered questions raised by these patterns, and how they might be addressed. One major pattern is that most types of sexually selected signals and weapons are apparently absent from most animal phyla (88%), in contrast to the conventional wisdom that a diversity of sexually selected traits is present across animals. Furthermore, most trait diversity is clustered in Arthropoda and Chordata, but only within certain clades. Within these clades, many different types of traits have evolved, and many types appear to have evolved repeatedly. By contrast, other major arthropod and chordate clades appear to lack all or most trait types, and similar patterns are repeated at smaller phylogenetic scales (e.g. within insects). Although most research on sexual selection focuses on female choice, we find similar numbers of traits (among sampled species) are involved in male contests (44%) and female choice (55%). Overall, these patterns are largely unexplained and unexplored, as are many other fundamental questions about the evolution of these traits. We suggest that understanding the diversity of sexually selected traits may require a shift towards macroevolutionary studies at relatively deep timescales (e.g. tens to hundreds of millions of years ago).
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- John J Wiens
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0088, U.S.A
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0088, U.S.A
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Levine BA, Douglas MR, Yackel Adams AA, Lardner B, Reed RN, Savidge JA, Douglas ME. Genomic pedigree reconstruction identifies predictors of mating and reproductive success in an invasive vertebrate. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:11863-11877. [PMID: 31695893 PMCID: PMC6822066 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The persistence of an invasive species is influenced by its reproductive ecology, and a successful control program must operate on this premise. However, the reproductive ecology of invasive species may be enigmatic due to factors that also limit their management, such as cryptic coloration and behavior. We explored the mating and reproductive ecology of the invasive Brown Treesnake (BTS: Boiga irregularis) by reconstructing a multigenerational genomic pedigree based on 654 single nucleotide polymorphisms for a geographically closed population established in 2004 on Guam (N = 426). The pedigree allowed annual estimates of individual mating and reproductive success to be inferred for snakes in the study population over a 14-year period. We then employed generalized linear mixed models to gauge how well phenotypic and genomic data could predict sex-specific annual mating and reproductive success. Average snout-vent length (SVL), average body condition index (BCI), and trappability were significantly related to annual mating success for males, with average SVL also related to annual mating success for females. Male and female annual reproductive success was positively affected by SVL, BCI, and trappability. Surprisingly, the degree to which individuals were inbred had no effect on annual mating or reproductive success. When juxtaposed with current control methods, these results indicate that baited traps, a common interdiction tool, may target fecund BTS in some regards but not others. Our study emphasizes the importance of reproductive ecology as a focus for improving BTS control and promotes genomic pedigree reconstruction for such an endeavor in this invasive species and others.
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- Brenna A. Levine
- University of ArkansasFayettevilleArkansas
- Present address:
University of TulsaTulsaOklahoma
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Smolla M, Rosher C, Gilman RT, Shultz S. Reproductive skew affects social information use. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2019; 6:182084. [PMID: 31417699 PMCID: PMC6689588 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.182084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Individuals vary in their propensity to use social learning, the engine of cultural evolution, to acquire information about their environment. The causes of those differences, however, remain largely unclear. Using an agent-based model, we tested the hypothesis that as a result of reproductive skew differences in energetic requirements for reproduction affect the value of social information. We found that social learning is associated with lower variance in yield and is more likely to evolve in risk-averse low-skew populations than in high-skew populations. Reproductive skew may also result in sex differences in social information use, as empirical data suggest that females are often more risk-averse than males. To explore how risk may affect sex differences in learning strategies, we simulated learning in sexually reproducing populations where one sex experiences more reproductive skew than the other. When both sexes compete for the same resources, they tend to adopt extreme strategies: the sex with greater reproductive skew approaches pure individual learning and the other approaches pure social learning. These results provide insight into the conditions that promote individual and species level variation in social learning and so may affect cultural evolution.
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- Marco Smolla
- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Department of Ecology & Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Singh P, Mishra G, Omkar. Influence of body size and familiarity on mating and reproductive parameters in the zig-zag ladybird beetle, Menochilus sexmaculatus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). CAN J ZOOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2017-0344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Body size often indicates an individual’s quality and so mate selection is typically for larger individuals, including in ladybirds (Coccinellidae). Many organisms including ladybirds are also are known to refuse mating attempts with familiar individuals, but whether at the expense of mating with larger individuals is not clear. We assessed the cumulative effect of body size and familiarity on mating and reproductive behaviour in the zig-zag ladybird beetle (Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius, 1781) = Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius, 1781)). For this study, individuals were separated into small- and large-bodied individuals and allowed to mate in all possible combinations. Furthermore, following the first mating, an immediate second mating was provided to the males, with either a familiar (same as in the first mating) or an unfamiliar (new female with the same mating status) female. Mating and reproductive parameters were recorded. The mating duration was longer with familiar partners than unfamiliar individuals. Mating duration was shorter for the second mating, suggesting that mating and ejaculate transfer are costly, to assure higher reproductive success. In this ladybird beetle, familiarity modified mating duration, whereas fecundity and egg viability were influenced by body size.
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- Priya Singh
- Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007, India
- Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007, India
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- Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007, India
- Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007, India
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- Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007, India
- Ladybird Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007, India
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Phillips JA, Peacock SJ, Bateman A, Bartlett M, Lewis MA, Krkošek M. An asymmetric producer-scrounger game: body size and the social foraging behavior of coho salmon. THEOR ECOL-NETH 2018; 11:417-431. [PMID: 30931016 PMCID: PMC6405016 DOI: 10.1007/s12080-018-0375-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A tension between cooperation and conflict characterizes the behavioral dynamics of many social species. The foraging benefits of group living include increased efficiency and reduced need for vigilance, but social foraging can also encourage theft of captured prey from conspecifics. The payoffs of stealing prey from others (scrounging) versus capturing prey (producing) may depend not only on the frequency of each foraging strategy in the group but also on an individual’s ability to steal. By observing the foraging behavior of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), we found that, within a group, relatively smaller coho acted primarily as producers and took longer to handle prey, and were therefore more likely to be targeted by scroungers than relatively larger coho. Further, our observations suggest that the frequency of scrounging may be higher when groups contained individuals of different sizes. Based on these observations, we developed a model of phenotype-limited producer-scrounger dynamics, in which rates of stealing were structured by the relative size of producers and scroungers within the foraging group. Model simulations show that when the success of stealing is positively related to body size, relatively large predators should tend to be scroungers while smaller predators should be producers. Contrary to previous models, we also found that, under certain conditions, producer and scrounger strategies could coexist for both large and small phenotypes. Large scroungers tended to receive the highest payoff, suggesting that producer-scrounger dynamics may result in an uneven distribution of benefits among group members that—under the right conditions—could entrench social positions of dominance.
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- Jessica A Phillips
- 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,2Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,3Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.,4Present Address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,3Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.,Salmon Coast Field Station, Simoom Sound, Echo Bay, Canada
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- 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- 3Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.,6Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Salmon Coast Field Station, Simoom Sound, Echo Bay, Canada
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Eskandarzadeh N, Rastegar-Pouyani N, Rastegar-Pouyani E, Todehdehghan F, Rajabizadeh M. Sexual Dimorphism in the Javelin Sand Boa, Eryx jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes: Erycidae), from Western Iran. CURRENT HERPETOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.5358/hsj.37.88] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Naeimeh Eskandarzadeh
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Razi University of Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Venomous Animals and Antivenin Production, Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, Karaj, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biodiversity, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran
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Rollings N, Uhrig EJ, Krohmer RW, Waye HL, Mason RT, Olsson M, Whittington CM, Friesen CR. Age-related sex differences in body condition and telomere dynamics of red-sided garter snakes. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 284:rspb.2016.2146. [PMID: 28381620 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Life-history strategies vary dramatically between the sexes, which may drive divergence in sex-specific senescence and mortality rates. Telomeres are tandem nucleotide repeats that protect the ends of chromosomes from erosion during cell division. Telomeres have been implicated in senescence and mortality because they tend to shorten with stress, growth and age. We investigated age-specific telomere length in female and male red-sided garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis We hypothesized that age-specific telomere length would differ between males and females given their divergent reproductive strategies. Male garter snakes emerge from hibernation with high levels of corticosterone, which facilitates energy mobilization to fuel mate-searching, courtship and mating behaviours during a two to four week aphagous breeding period at the den site. Conversely, females remain at the dens for only about 4 days and seem to invest more energy in growth and cellular maintenance, as they usually reproduce biennially. As male investment in reproduction involves a yearly bout of physiologically stressful activities, while females prioritize self-maintenance, we predicted male snakes would experience more age-specific telomere loss than females. We investigated this prediction using skeletochronology to determine the ages of individuals and qPCR to determine telomere length in a cross-sectional study. For both sexes, telomere length was positively related to body condition. Telomere length decreased with age in male garter snakes, but remained stable in female snakes. There was no correlation between telomere length and growth in either sex, suggesting that our results are a consequence of divergent selection on life histories of males and females. Different selection on the sexes may be the physiological consequence of the sexual dimorphism and mating system dynamics displayed by this species.
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- Nicky Rollings
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Heydon-Laurence Building (A08), New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.,Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Heydon-Laurence Building (A08), New South Wales 2006, Australia.,Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Heydon-Laurence Building (A08), New South Wales 2006, Australia
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Correlated evolution of sexually selected traits: interspecific variation in ejaculates, sperm morphology, copulatory mate guarding, and body size in two sympatric species of garter snakes. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2414-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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da Rocha SMC, Lima AP, Kaefer IL. Territory size as a main driver of male-mating success in an Amazonian nurse frog (Allobates paleovarzensis, Dendrobatoidea). Acta Ethol 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10211-017-0280-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Madelaire CB, Sokolova I, Gomes FR. Seasonal Patterns of Variation in Steroid Plasma Levels and Immune Parameters in Anurans from Brazilian Semiarid Area. Physiol Biochem Zool 2017; 90:415-433. [PMID: 28398155 DOI: 10.1086/691202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Elevated androgens and glucocorticoids displayed by males during the reproductive season have been proposed to mediate a possible trade-off between reproduction and immunocompetence. Anurans living in arid and semiarid environments display a strong seasonal reproduction, which could accentuate the variation in physiological, immunological, and behavioral parameters. We studied covariation between steroid plasma levels, morphometric variables associated with body condition and immunity, leukocyte profile, parasite load, and response to an immunological challenge across different phases of the annual life-history cycle of three anuran species from a Brazilian semiarid area. Our results showed a seasonal pattern of covariation among leukocyte parameters, kidney mass, and steroid plasma levels, with higher values measured during the reproductive season, particularly when males were sampled during calling activity. Moreover, these anurans showed a stronger response to an immunological challenge during the reproductive period. The immunosuppression during the dry period was particularly evident for the species that aestivate, indicating that the availability of energetic resources might be an important factor determining seasonal variation in inflammatory response. Intensity of the helminth infection was associated with eosinophil count but showed a more complex pattern with regard to androgens levels. These data emphasize that variations in the intensity of helminth infection might be more closely related to specific aspects of the immune response than to the general seasonal patterns of variation in steroid plasma levels, total circulating leukocytes, and inflammatory response.
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Loebens L, Rojas CA, Almeida-Santos SM, Cechin SZ. Reproductive biology ofPhilodryas patagoniensis(Snakes: Dipsadidae) in south Brazil: Female reproductive cycle. ACTA ZOOL-STOCKHOLM 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/azo.12200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Luiza Loebens
- Laboratory of Herpetology; Santa Maria Federal University; Santa Maria Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
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- Laboratory of Herpetology; Santa Maria Federal University; Santa Maria Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
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Interactions between the developmental and adult social environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Sci Rep 2017; 7:3574. [PMID: 28620201 PMCID: PMC5472581 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03505-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Developmental conditions can strongly influence adult phenotypes and social interactions, which in turn affect key evolutionary processes such as sexual selection and sexual conflict. While the implications of social interactions in phenotypically mixed populations at the individual level are increasingly well known, how these effects influence the fate of groups remains poorly understood, which limits our understanding of the broader ecological implications. To address this problem we manipulated adult phenotypes and social composition in Drosophila melanogaster – by experimentally manipulating the larval density of the group-members – and measured a range of group-level outcomes across the lifespan of groups. Adult groups composed of exclusively low larval-density individuals showed high courtship levels, and low early reproductive rates, group growth rates, offspring mass and offspring eclosion success, relative to high larval-density or mixed larval-density groups. Furthermore, high larval-density groups had lower survival. Offspring mass increased with time, but at a reduced rate in groups when male group members (but not females) were from a mixture of larval-densities; peak reproductive rates were also earlier in these groups. Our results suggest that that variation in developmental conditions experienced by adult group members can modify the reproductive output of groups.
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Brown GP, Madsen TRL, Shine R. Resource availability and sexual size dimorphism: differential effects of prey abundance on the growth rates of tropical snakes. Funct Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Gregory P. Brown
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Sydney Heydon‐Laurence Building A08 Sydney NSW2006 Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences Deakin University Burwood VIC3217 Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Sydney Heydon‐Laurence Building A08 Sydney NSW2006 Australia
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Anderson AG, Hebets EA. Benefits of size dimorphism and copulatory silk wrapping in the sexually cannibalistic nursery web spider, Pisaurina mira. Biol Lett 2016; 12:20150957. [PMID: 26911340 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In sexually cannibalistic animals, male fitness is influenced not only by successful mate acquisition and egg fertilization, but also by avoiding being eaten. In the cannibalistic nursery web spider, Pisaurina mira, the legs of mature males are longer in relation to their body size than those of females, and males use these legs to aid in wrapping a female's legs with silk prior to and during copulation. We hypothesized that elongated male legs and silk wrapping provide benefits to males, in part through a reduced likelihood of sexual cannibalism. To test this, we paired females of random size with males from one of two treatment groups-those capable of silk wrapping versus those incapable of silk wrapping. We found that males with relatively longer legs and larger body size were more likely to mate and were less likely to be cannibalized prior to copulation. Regardless of relative size, males capable of silk wrapping were less likely to be cannibalized during or following copulation and had more opportunities for sperm transfer (i.e. pedipalpal insertions). Our results suggest that male size and copulatory silk wrapping are sexually selected traits benefiting male reproductive success.
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- Alissa G Anderson
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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REBELATO MARLUCIM, PONTES GLÁUCIAM, TOZETTI ALEXANDROM. Reproductive biology of Thamnodynastes hypoconia (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in Brazilian subtemperate wetlands. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 88:1699-1709. [DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765201620140569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2014] [Accepted: 11/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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ABSTRACT This study aimed to describe the reproductive biology of populations of Thamnodynastes hypoconia in subtemperate wetlands based on macroscopic analyses of their gonads. We analyzed 101 specimens from the southernmost regions of Brazil. The males had a greater snout-vent length, but the females reached sexual maturity with a greater body size. The reproductive cycle of the females was seasonal, with secondary vitellogenesis occurring between the winter and spring (May-October). Based on macroscopic analysis of gonads, data suggests that males have a continuous reproductive cycle. Parturition occurs between the late summer and early fall (January-April). The clutch size ranged between 4 and 16 embryos and showed no relationship with the female's body size. The recorded reproductive frequency of T. hypoconia is low (38 %) compared to other phylogenetically related species. Conversely, the studied populations appear to have a high reproductive success because it is an abundant species in the study site.
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Male-male competition drives sexual selection and group spawning in the Omei treefrog, Rhacophorus omeimontis. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2078-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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King RB, Stanford KM, Jones PC, Bekker K. Size Matters: Individual Variation in Ectotherm Growth and Asymptotic Size. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0146299. [PMID: 26730712 PMCID: PMC4712130 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 12/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Body size, and, by extension, growth has impacts on physiology, survival, attainment of sexual maturity, fecundity, generation time, and population dynamics, especially in ectotherm animals that often exhibit extensive growth following attainment of sexual maturity. Frequently, growth is analyzed at the population level, providing useful population mean growth parameters but ignoring individual variation that is also of ecological and evolutionary significance. Our long-term study of Lake Erie Watersnakes, Nerodia sipedon insularum, provides data sufficient for a detailed analysis of population and individual growth. We describe population mean growth separately for males and females based on size of known age individuals (847 captures of 769 males, 748 captures of 684 females) and annual growth increments of individuals of unknown age (1,152 males, 730 females). We characterize individual variation in asymptotic size based on repeated measurements of 69 males and 71 females that were each captured in five to nine different years. The most striking result of our analyses is that asymptotic size varies dramatically among individuals, ranging from 631-820 mm snout-vent length in males and from 835-1125 mm in females. Because female fecundity increases with increasing body size, we explore the impact of individual variation in asymptotic size on lifetime reproductive success using a range of realistic estimates of annual survival. When all females commence reproduction at the same age, lifetime reproductive success is greatest for females with greater asymptotic size regardless of annual survival. But when reproduction is delayed in females with greater asymptotic size, lifetime reproductive success is greatest for females with lower asymptotic size when annual survival is low. Possible causes of individual variation in asymptotic size, including individual- and cohort-specific variation in size at birth and early growth, warrant further investigation.
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- Richard B. King
- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America
- F. T. Stone Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Put-in-Bay, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Herpetology, The Toledo Zoo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
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Mayer M, Shine R, Brown GP. Bigger babies are bolder: effects of body size on personality of hatchling snakes. BEHAVIOUR 2016. [DOI: 10.1163/1568539x-00003343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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An animal’s susceptibility to risk may be partly dependent on its body size. But are larger individuals bolder? We assessed this question by measuring time to emerge from a shelter in repeated trials on hatchling keelback snakes (Tropidonophis mairii). Estimates of repeatability of emergence times suggested they measure some underlying personality dimension related to boldness. Larger hatchlings emerged from shelter sooner than small ones. Hatchling mass of keelbacks is substantially influenced both by maternal phenotype and by incubation conditions. Given the environmental basis of much of the variation in offspring size, the size-boldness association may reflect a facultative ability to adjust behavioural tactics to body size, as well as innate differences in personality traits between large versus small hatchlings. The link between size and boldness suggests that the survival advantage of larger offspring size in this population may be driven by snake behaviour as well as morphology.
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- Martin Mayer
- Department of Environmental and Health Studies, Telemark University College, P.O. Box 203, N-3901 Porsgrunn, Norway
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Heydon-Laurence Building A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Heydon-Laurence Building A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Friesen CR, Powers DR, Copenhaver PE, Mason RT. Size dependence in non-sperm ejaculate production is reflected in daily energy expenditure and resting metabolic rate. J Exp Biol 2015; 218:1410-8. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.120402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The non-sperm components of an ejaculate, such as copulatory plugs, can be essential to male reproductive success. But the costs of these ejaculate components are often considered trivial. In polyandrous species, males are predicted to increase energy allocation to the production of non-sperm components, but this allocation is often condition dependent and the energetic costs of their production have never been quantified. Red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) are an excellent model with which to quantify the energetic costs of non-sperm components of the ejaculate as they exhibit a dissociated reproductive pattern in which sperm production is temporally disjunct from copulatory plug production, mating and plug deposition. We estimated the daily energy expenditure and resting metabolic rate of males after courtship and mating, and used bomb calorimetry to estimate the energy content of copulatory plugs. We found that both daily energy expenditure and resting metabolic rate were significantly higher in small mating males than in courting males, and a single copulatory plug without sperm constitutes 5–18% of daily energy expenditure. To our knowledge, this is the first study to quantify the energetic expense of size-dependent ejaculate strategies in any species.
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- Christopher R. Friesen
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Heydon-Laurence Bldg AO8, Science Rd, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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- Department of Biology, George Fox University, Edwards-Holman Science Center, Newberg, OR 97132, USA
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- Department of Biology, George Fox University, Edwards-Holman Science Center, Newberg, OR 97132, USA
- Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Aven Nelson Building 130, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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Friesen CR, Kerns AR, Mason RT. Factors influencing paternity in multiply mated female red-sided garter snakes and the persistent use of sperm stored over winter. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-014-1749-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Griffiths SW, Orpwood JE, Ojanguren AF, Armstrong JD, Magurran AE. Sexual segregation in monomorphic minnows. Anim Behav 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Friesen CR, Uhrig EJ, Squire MK, Mason RT, Brennan PLR. Sexual conflict over mating in red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) as indicated by experimental manipulation of genitalia. Proc Biol Sci 2014; 281:20132694. [PMID: 24225467 PMCID: PMC3843848 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2013] [Accepted: 10/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Sexual conflict over mating can result in sex-specific morphologies and behaviours that allow each sex to exert control over the outcome of reproduction. Genital traits, in particular, are often directly involved in conflict interactions. Via genital manipulation, we experimentally investigated whether genital traits in red-sided garter snakes influence copulation duration and formation of a copulatory plug. The hemipenes of male red-sided garter snakes have a large basal spine that inserts into the female cloaca during mating. We ablated the spine and found that males were still capable of copulation but copulation duration was much shorter and copulatory plugs were smaller than those produced by intact males. We also anaesthetized the female cloacal region and found that anaesthetized females copulated longer than control females, suggesting that female cloacal and vaginal contractions play a role in controlling copulation duration. Both results, combined with known aspects of the breeding biology of red-sided garter snakes, strongly support the idea that sexual conflict is involved in mating interactions in this species. Our results demonstrate the complex interactions among male and female traits generated by coevolutionary processes in a wild population. Such complexity highlights the importance of simultaneous examination of male and female traits.
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- Christopher R. Friesen
- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Heydon-Laurence Building AO8, Science Road, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
- Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, 221 Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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Friesen CR, Mason RT, Arnold SJ, Estes S. Patterns of sperm use in two populations of Red-sided Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) with long-term female sperm storage. CAN J ZOOL 2014. [DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2013-0195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Long-term sperm storage may contribute to postcopulatory sexual selection because it enhances the commingling of sperm from different males within the female reproductive tract, which is the prerequisite for sperm competition. Long-term sperm storage and multiple paternity has been documented in snakes, but the identity of the last potential father is usually unknown in studies demonstrating multiple paternity. Here we present the first study in Red-sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (Say in James, 1832)) to use experimental population crosses to assess stored sperm usage, mate-order effects, and the potential for interpopulational gametic isolation. We found a high rate of multiple paternity indicative of ubiquitous long-term sperm storage in this system, and observed last-male sperm precedence in all families (n = 66). Postzygotic isolation was absent, and we observed only a weak asymmetry in pattern of sperm precedence in our population crosses.
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- Christopher R. Friesen
- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Heydon-Laurence Building AO8, Science Road, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cordley Hall 3029, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
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- Department of Biology, Portland State University, 1719 SW 10th Avenue, SRTC Room 246, Portland, OR 97201, USA
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Luo Z, Li C, Wang H, Zhao M, Gu Q, Gu Z, Liao C, Wu H. Mutual mate choice in the Asiatic toad, Bufo gargarizans, exerts stabilizing selection on body size. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-0005-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Scharf I, Meiri S. Sexual dimorphism of heads and abdomens: Different approaches to ‘being large’ in female and male lizards. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Inon Scharf
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences; Tel Aviv University; Klausner St.; Tel Aviv; 6997801; Israel
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences; Tel Aviv University; Klausner St.; Tel Aviv; 6997801; Israel
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Schneider JE, Wise JD, Benton NA, Brozek JM, Keen-Rhinehart E. When do we eat? Ingestive behavior, survival, and reproductive success. Horm Behav 2013; 64:702-28. [PMID: 23911282 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2013] [Revised: 07/21/2013] [Accepted: 07/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The neuroendocrinology of ingestive behavior is a topic central to human health, particularly in light of the prevalence of obesity, eating disorders, and diabetes. The study of food intake in laboratory rats and mice has yielded some useful hypotheses, but there are still many gaps in our knowledge. Ingestive behavior is more complex than the consummatory act of eating, and decisions about when and how much to eat usually take place in the context of potential mating partners, competitors, predators, and environmental fluctuations that are not present in the laboratory. We emphasize appetitive behaviors, actions that bring animals in contact with a goal object, precede consummatory behaviors, and provide a window into motivation. Appetitive ingestive behaviors are under the control of neural circuits and neuropeptide systems that control appetitive sex behaviors and differ from those that control consummatory ingestive behaviors. Decreases in the availability of oxidizable metabolic fuels enhance the stimulatory effects of peripheral hormones on appetitive ingestive behavior and the inhibitory effects on appetitive sex behavior, putting a new twist on the notion of leptin, insulin, and ghrelin "resistance." The ratio of hormone concentrations to the availability of oxidizable metabolic fuels may generate a critical signal that schedules conflicting behaviors, e.g., mate searching vs. foraging, food hoarding vs. courtship, and fat accumulation vs. parental care. In species representing every vertebrate taxa and even in some invertebrates, many putative "satiety" or "hunger" hormones function to schedule ingestive behavior in order to optimize reproductive success in environments where energy availability fluctuates.
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- Jill E Schneider
- Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
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Seasonal, Condition-Dependent, and Individual Variation in Testosterone in a Natricine Snake. J HERPETOL 2013. [DOI: 10.1670/12-001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Parker MR, Mason RT. How to make a sexy snake: estrogen activation of female sex pheromone in male red-sided garter snakes. J Exp Biol 2012; 215:723-30. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.064923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Vertebrates indicate their genetic sex to conspecifics using secondary sexual signals, and signal expression is often activated by sex hormones. Among vertebrate signaling modalities, the least is known about how hormones influence chemical signaling. Our study species, the red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), is a model vertebrate for studying hormonal control of chemical signals because males completely rely on the female sex pheromone to identify potential mates among thousands of individuals. How sex hormones can influence the expression of this crucial sexual signal is largely unknown. We created two groups of experimental males for the first experiment: Sham (blank implants) and E2 (17β-estradiol implants). E2 males were vigorously courted by wild males in outdoor bioassays, and in a Y-maze E2 pheromone trails were chosen by wild males over those of small females and were indistinguishable from large female trails. Biochemically, the E2 pheromone blend was similar to that of large females, and it differed significantly from Shams. For the second experiment, we implanted males with 17β-estradiol in 2007 but removed the implants the following year (2008; Removal). That same year, we implanted a new group of males with estrogen implants (Implant). Removal males were courted by wild males in 2008 (implant intact) but not in 2009 (removed). Total pheromone quantity and quality increased following estrogen treatment, and estrogen removal re-established male-typical pheromone blends. Thus, we have shown that estrogen activates the production of female pheromone in adult red-sided garter snakes. This is the first known study to quantify both behavioral and biochemical responses in chemical signaling following sex steroid treatment of reptiles in the activation/organization context. We propose that the homogametic sex (ZZ, male) may possess the same targets for activation of sexual signal production, and the absence of the activator (17β-estradiol in this case) underlies expression of the male phenotype.
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- M. Rockwell Parker
- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, 3029 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, 3029 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Uhrig EJ, Lutterschmidt DI, Mason RT, LeMaster MP. Pheromonal Mediation of Intraseasonal Declines in the Attractivity of Female Red-Sided Garter Snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis. J Chem Ecol 2012; 38:71-80. [DOI: 10.1007/s10886-011-0054-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2011] [Revised: 11/06/2011] [Accepted: 12/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Barker BS, Phillips PC, Arnold SJ. A TEST OF THE CONJECTURE THAT G-MATRICES ARE MORE STABLE THAN B-MATRICES. Evolution 2010; 64:2601-13. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Social behavior and pheromonal communication in reptiles. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2010; 196:729-49. [DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0551-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2010] [Revised: 05/14/2010] [Accepted: 06/13/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Winne CT, Willson JD, Whitfield Gibbons J. Drought survival and reproduction impose contrasting selection pressures on maximum body size and sexual size dimorphism in a snake, Seminatrix pygaea. Oecologia 2009; 162:913-22. [PMID: 19967417 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1513-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2009] [Accepted: 10/27/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The causes and consequences of body size and sexual size dimorphism (SSD) have been central questions in evolutionary ecology. Two, often opposing selective forces are suspected to act on body size in animals: survival selection and reproductive (fecundity and sexual) selection. We have recently identified a system where a small aquatic snake species (Seminatrix pygaea) is capable of surviving severe droughts by aestivating within dried, isolated wetlands. We tested the hypothesis that the lack of aquatic prey during severe droughts would impose significant survivorship pressures on S. pygaea, and that the largest individuals, particularly females, would be most adversely affected by resource limitation. Our findings suggest that both sexes experience selection against large body size during severe drought when prey resources are limited, as nearly all S. pygaea are absent from the largest size classes and maximum body size and SSD are dramatically reduced following drought. Conversely, strong positive correlations between maternal body size and reproductive success in S. pygaea suggest that females experience fecundity selection for large size during non-drought years. Collectively, our study emphasizes the dynamic interplay between selection pressures that act on body size and supports theoretical predictions about the relationship between body size and survivorship in ectotherms under conditions of resource limitation.
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- Christopher T Winne
- Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802, USA.
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MOORE JENNIFERA, DAUGHERTY CHARLESH, GODFREY STEPHANIES, NELSON NICOLAJ. Seasonal monogamy and multiple paternity in a wild population of a territorial reptile (tuatara). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01271.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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KING RICHARDB, JADIN ROBERTC, GRUE MICHAEL, WALLEY HARLAND. Behavioural correlates with hemipenis morphology in New World natricine snakes. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2009. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01270.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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