Indicators of recent mating success in the pipevine swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor) and their relationship to male phenotype

Sasaki, Nayuta; Konagaya, Tatsuro; Watanabe, Mamoru; Rutowski, Ronald L.

doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.11.002

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“…14.3 and 14.4). After Sasaki et al (2015) A plus sign means that the state of that component met the criteria we set for indicating the male recently mated. A minus sign means it did not meet the criteria.…”

Section: Mating Success Of Field-caught Malesmentioning

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Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

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Nijhout²

2017

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“…Fig. 14.1 A schematic representation of the internal reproductive organs of a B. philenor male (AfterSasaki et al 2015) …”

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Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

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Nijhout²

2017

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“…Recently, Sasaki et al (2015) developed a method to infer recent mating experiences of male butterflies. They found that the simplex (a part of the male reproductive organ) is shortened for 2 days after copulation in the pipevine swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor .…”

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Agonistic display or courtship behavior? A review of contests over mating opportunity in butterflies

Takeuchi

2016

J Ethol

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Male butterflies compete over mating opportunities. Two types of contest behavior are reported. Males of various butterfly species compete over a mating territory via aerial interactions until one of the two contestants retreats. Males of other butterfly species fly around larval food plants to find receptive females. Males of some species among the latter type can find a conspecific pupa, and they gather around it without expelling their rivals. Scramble competition over mating occurs when a female emerges from the pupa. Many studies have been performed on territorial species, and their contest resolution has often been understood from the point of view of contest models based on game theory. However, these models cannot explain why these butterflies perform contest displays despite the fact that they do not have the ability to attack their opponent. A recent study based on Lloyd Morgan’s Canon showed that territorial contests of male butterflies are better understood as erroneous courtship between sexually active males. In this paper, I review research on contests over mating opportunity in butterflies, and show that the erroneous courtship framework can explain not only territorial contests of butterflies but also why males do not determine the owner of a conspecific pupa.

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“…After Sasaki et al (2015) A plus sign means that the state of that component met the criteria we set for indicating the male recently mated. A minus sign means it did not meet the criteria.…”

Section: Mating Success Of Field-caught Malesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A minus sign means it did not meet the criteria. In later analysis, any group that met two or more of the criteria (Groups E to H) and males that met none of the criteria (Group A) were used as recently mated males and as not recently mated males, respectively Sasaki et al (2015) Significant correlation between intensity and chroma, chroma and hue, and chroma and age-class were found *p < 0.01 …”

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Estimating the Mating Success of Male Butterflies in the Field

Sasaki

Konagaya

Watanabe

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Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

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Sexual dimorphism in wing coloration is pervasive in butterflies and has been attributed to the process of sexual selection. However, this view has rarely been tested, partly owing to difficulties in estimating the mating success of males in the field. In the present study, we describe a method for assessing the mating success of male pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) butterflies, based on the appearance of their reproductive tracts. Laboratory experiments indicated that, in response to mating, components of the males' reproductive tracts become shorter, decrease in mass, and change in appearance, irrespective of age; and these changes persist for at least 2 days. Using these indicators of recent mating, we examined the reproductive tracts of 68 field-caught males and found that the color of the dorsal hindwing, a feature that females use in mate choice, was significantly greener in males that had recently mated than in males that had not.

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Indicators of recent mating success in the pipevine swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor) and their relationship to male phenotype

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

Diversity and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns

Agonistic display or courtship behavior? A review of contests over mating opportunity in butterflies

Estimating the Mating Success of Male Butterflies in the Field

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