Frequency Dependence and Mating Behavior in Tribolium castaneum

MALE RARITY OR NOVELTY, FEMALE CHOICE BEHAVIOR, AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE GUPPY,POECILIA RETICULATAPETERS (PISCES: POECILIIDAE)

“…In frequency-dependent selection, females prefer to mate with rare males in a population, the result being establishment of new types in a population and maintenance of a polymorphism among males. This phenomenon has been shown to exist in many species of Drosophila (Petit, 1958;Petit and Ehrman, 1969;Ehrman and Spiess, 1969), in Tribolium castaneum (Sinnock, 1970), and in a wasp, Mormoniella vitripennis (Grant et al, 1974). While it has not been demonstrated in a vertebrate species, there are two examples which suggest it may be a factor.…”

OLFACTORY CUES AS A FACTOR IN FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT MATE SELECTION INMORMONIELLA VITRIPENNIS

“…The advantage of the rare male has since been described in eight more species of the genus Drosophila; D. equinoxialis, D. junebris, D. gaucha, D. immigrans, D. pavani, D. persimilis, D. tropicalis, and D. willistoni (Ehrman and Petit, 1968;Ehrman, 1966Ehrman, , 1972bEhrman et al, 1972;Spiess, 1968;Spiess and Spiess, 1969;and Borisov, 1970); the parasitic wasp Mormoniella vitripennis (Grant et al, 1974); and suggested in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Sinnock, 1970). Females have been shown to possess the ability to distinguish a variety of differences among conspecific males, e.g., strains of males carrying different chromosomal inversions, of different geographic origins, reared at different temperatures, and wild versus mutant types (Ehrman, 1967(Ehrman, , 1970bPetit and Ehrman, 1969).…”

SOCIAL FACILITATION OF MALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, INTRASEXUAL COMPETITION, AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE GUPPY,POECILIA RETICULATA(PISCES: POECILIIDAE)

“…One type of interstrain competition, frequencydependent selection (i.e. rare male advantage), has been demonstrated conclusively in several speceis of Drosophila (Petit, 1958;Petit and Ehrman, 1969), and shown possibly to occur in Tribolium (Sinnock, 1970) and a wasp, Mormoniella (Grant et aI., 1974). Gadgil (1972) mentioned several examples of sexual dimorphisms which might be maintained by sexual selection.…”