Finding the one: optimal choosiness under sequential mate choice

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 1193-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Henshaw
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Sequential Mate Choice ◽  
The One

Male fiddler crabs prefer conspecific females during simultaneous, but not sequential, mate choice

2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isobel Booksmythe ◽  
Michael D. Jennions ◽  
Patricia R.Y. Backwell
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Fiddler Crabs ◽  
Sequential Mate Choice

Density-dependent plasticity of sequential mate choice in a bushcricket (Orthoptera:Tettigoniidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerlind U. C. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
High Density ◽  
High Population Density ◽  
Mating Period ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Accessory Glands ◽  
Sequential Mate Choice ◽  
Mate Sampling ◽  
Copulation Attempt

Mate choice is a common phenomenon in animals and several factors have been proposed as being involved in the acceptance or rejection of a partner. I investigated the effect of population density on the mate-sampling behaviour of female Xederra charactus (bushcrickets). In my study, female bushcrickets adjusted the tactic of sequential mate sampling in response to mate density, visiting a series of up to five different males per night. Under low-density conditions, females visited fewer males in a night and were less likely to reject a copulation attempt than females under high-density conditions. Rejection of a male occurred during 29% of copulations in areas of high population density, but during only 8% in areas of low population density. Moreover, at low densities, females were less likely to reject mates later in the night, which can be interpreted as a reaction to the time constraints of a finite nightly mating period. Females in high-density populations also more often chose males with a higher mass of the spermatophore-producing accessory glands. Due to such choice, females might receive a larger nuptial gift at mating. These results are consistent with tactical models of search behaviour in which females adjust their behaviour to the number of potential mates and the length of the mating period.

Mate choice copying in two species of darters (Percidae: Etheostoma)

Behaviour ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 150 (11) ◽  
pp. 1255-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel L. Moran ◽  
Carl N. von Ende ◽  
Bethia H. King
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Nest Site ◽  
Etheostoma Flabellare ◽  
Mate Choice Copying ◽  
Filamentous Green Algae ◽  
The One ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
The Relationship

Mate choice copying is a form of social learning that is defined as the increased likelihood of an individual choosing a particular mate after observing another individual choosing that mate. Mate choice copying has been demonstrated in a range of taxonomic groups, but not usually for both sexes. Mate choice copying experiments were performed here using two congeneric sympatric darters, Etheostoma flabellare and E. zonale. In E. flabellare, males guard a nest site under a rock and care for developing eggs. In E. zonale, eggs are attached to filamentous green algae and neither sex provides parental care. Our results provide the first evidence that mate choice copying occurs in darters. Previously it was hypothesised that copying might be more common in species and sexes that provide parental care, the reasoning being that the costs of choosing poorly may be higher. However, mate choice copying was found in both sexes of E. zonale (no parental care) and in male but not female E. flabellare (male only parental care). Thus, the only group that did not mate choice copy was the one whose mate would be providing care, and even E. flabellare females copy the mate choice of other females by some definitions. The relationship, if any, between which sex provides parental care and whether copying occurs remains unclear, and the number of species for which such data are available is limited.

Sequential mate choice and sexual isolation in threespine stickleback species

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Kozak ◽  
M. L. Head ◽  
A. C. R. Lackey ◽  
J. W. Boughman
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Threespine Stickleback ◽  
Sequential Mate Choice

Adaptive Search and Information Updating in Sequential Mate Choice

1996 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Mazalov ◽  
N. Perrin ◽  
Y. Dombrovsky
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Adaptive Search ◽  
Information Updating ◽  
Sequential Mate Choice

On Adaptive Search and Optimal Stopping in Sequential Mate Choice

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Dombrovsky ◽  
N. Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Optimal Stopping ◽  
Adaptive Search ◽  
Sequential Mate Choice
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