Male aggression, limited female choice and the ontogeny of mating behaviour in the flesh flySarcophaga crassipalpis

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dylan Shropshire ◽  
Darrell Moore ◽  
Edith Seier ◽  
Karl H. Joplin
Keyword(s):  
Female Choice ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Male Aggression

Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor

Ethology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron García‐Rosales ◽  
Barry P. Stephenson ◽  
Aurelio Ramírez‐Bautista ◽  
Javier Manjarrez ◽  
Numa P. Pavón
Keyword(s):  
Female Choice ◽  
Male Aggression ◽  
Sceloporus Minor

Mating Tactics in the Tropical Millipede Alloporus Uncinatus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae)

Behaviour ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 124 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Telford ◽  
J. Mark Dangerfield
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Mating System ◽  
Sperm Competition ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Female Choice ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Operational Sex Ratio ◽  
Mating Tactics ◽  
Mate Acquisition

AbstractField and laboratory observations of mating behaviour in a population of the tropical millipede Alloporus uncinatus were carried out over one breeding season. Males obtained mates through random encounters and by forming triplet associations with copula pairs. The occurrence of triplet associations in the field was coincident with a highly male biased operational sex ratio. Mate acquisition by males was apparently stochastic and direct physical competition did not occur. In laboratory experiments mating was size-selective probably as a consequence of female choice. We consider the possibility that sperm competition has contributed to the evolution of the mating system in this species.

Mating Behaviour and Its Relationship To Territoriality in Platycypha Caligata (Selys) (Odonata: Chlorocyphidae)

Behaviour ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh M. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Female Choice ◽  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Oviposition Site ◽  
Mountain Streams ◽  
Male Courtship ◽  
Territorial Defence ◽  
Central Sequence ◽  
Successful Mating ◽  
Calopteryx Maculata ◽  
Oviposition Sites

AbstractThe damselfly Platycypha caligata has males with abdomens coloured blue dorsally, and laterally expanded tibiae coloured white anteriorly and red posteriorly. The females are cryptically brown coloured. The males are strongly territorial and centre their territories around potential oviposition sites (driftwood or treeroots in the water). Territorial interactions involve a complex, hierarchical series of flights which include flash displays of the white and red surfaces of the tibiae. Most successful mating interactions followed a central sequence: (1) a male intercepts a female passing through his territory, (2) by displaying his blue abdomen behind him he attracts her to his oviposition site, (3) she lands and makes probing oviposition movements on it, apparently testing its suitability for oviposition (possibly on the basis of softness), while he courts her by displaying his white tibiae while hovering around her, (4) if she accepts the site she flies up slowly, perches, and they copulate, whereafter he returns her in tandem to the site to oviposit. Females apparently rejecting the site decamped rapidly. Sometimes males courting already ovipositing females were successful. All other interactions, especially those away from oviposition sites were unsuccessful (only 104 of 564 observed interactions led to copulation). This mating behaviour is compared with that of other Odonata, and especially Calopteryx maculata. It is speculated that the evolution of this female choice of oviposition site prior to mating and the elaborate male courtship resulted from male territorial defence of the only available suitable oviposition sites. The adaptation of Platycypha caligata to oviposition on driftwood and treeroots (the discreet, scarce, defendable sites invoked as the first step in this theory) may have been associated with their occupation of mountain streams which have no emergent vegetation.

TheDrosophilaKctd-family homologueKctd12-likemodulates male aggression and mating behaviour

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 2513-2526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Williams ◽  
Philip Goergen ◽  
Ganesh Phad ◽  
Robert Fredriksson ◽  
Helgi B. Schiöth
Keyword(s):  
Mating Behaviour ◽  
Male Aggression

Effects of bot fly, Cuterebra fontinella, parasitism on male aggression and female choice in Peromyscus leucopus

2007 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1419-1427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Cramer ◽  
Guy N. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Female Choice ◽  
Peromyscus Leucopus ◽  
Male Aggression ◽  
Bot Fly
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