A Large Cost of Female Mate Sampling in Pronghorn

2005 ◽  
Vol 166 (6) ◽  
pp. 661-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Byers ◽  
Patryce A. Wiseman ◽  
Lee Jones ◽  
Thomas J. Roffe
Keyword(s):  
Female Mate ◽  
Mate Sampling

A Large Cost of Female Mate Sampling in Pronghorn

2005 ◽  
Vol 166 (6) ◽  
pp. 661
Author(s):  
Byers ◽  
Wiseman ◽  
Jones ◽  
Roffe
Keyword(s):  
Female Mate ◽  
Mate Sampling

scholarly journals Female fiddler crabs, Austruca lactea (Decapoda: Ocypodidae), adjust their rate of mate sampling based on remaining days until oviposition under a size-dependent temperature constraint

2020 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
pp. 966-972
Author(s):  
Fumio Takeshita
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Environmental Temperature ◽  
Sampling Rate ◽  
Convex Curve ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Size Dependent ◽  
Female Body Size ◽  
Temperature Constraint ◽  
Mate Sampling

Abstract Rate of mate sampling is one of the critical components associated with sampling costs in female mate choice. In ectotherms, environmental temperature generally constrains locomotion performance. In addition, females will adjust the mate sampling rate depending on their breeding schedule because of the risk of remaining unfertilized eggs or a loss of benefits related to mating, if they lose the opportunity to copulate. This study investigated how these effects influence the rate of female mate sampling in the temperate fiddler crab (Austruca lactea) in the field. The number of sampled males per searching duration formed a convex curve against environmental temperature. The optimal environmental temperature increased with the female body size. These results suggest that mate sampling rate is under a size-dependent temperature constraint, and sampling costs are lower for larger females than smaller individuals under high-temperature conditions. Furthermore, when there were fewer remaining days, the mate sampling rate increased. Females would hasten the sampling rate to ensure a suitable burrow for breeding. Mate sampling rate in female A. lactea is therefore associated with environmental temperature, female body size and remaining days until oviposition.

Black Grouse leks on ice: Female mate sampling by incitation of male competition?

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
M. Hovi ◽  
Rauno V. Alatalo ◽  
Pirkko Siikam�ki
Keyword(s):  
Male Competition ◽  
Black Grouse ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Mate Sampling

Black Grouse leks on ice: Female mate sampling by incitation of male competition?

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Hovi ◽  
Rauno V. Alatalo ◽  
Pirkko Siikamäki
Keyword(s):  
Male Competition ◽  
Black Grouse ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Mate Sampling

Female Choice in Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella Ochotensis)

The Auk ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Female Choice ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Food Abundance ◽  
Territory Size ◽  
Territory Quality ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Nest Sites ◽  
Grasshopper Warbler

Abstract Morphological and territorial factors that influence female mate choice were examined in the monogamous Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ochotensis) on an islet near Fukuoka, Japan. I assumed that pairing date corresponded with female mate choice. Pairing date was correlated with both territory size and food abundance but was not correlated with selected morphological characteristics of males. Territorial quality was assumed to be correlated with territory size because preferable food resources and nest sites were distributed randomly. I conclude that female mate choice was influenced by territory quality rather than by the morphological characteristics of males.

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