Male traits under cryptic female choice in the spotted cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Tallamy, Douglas W.; Powell, Bradford E.; McClafferty, Julie

doi:10.1093/beheco/13.4.511

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“…First, females often accept their mates in less than 5 min and we did not want to bias our measurements against males that were particularly attractive by only quantifying males that were evaluated for longer periods. Furthermore, the stroking speed slows over time (Tallamy et al 2002) making it dif cult to accurately extrapolate stroking rate beyond that actually measured for beetles that are accepted quickly.…”

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Copulatory courtship signals male genetic quality in cucumber beetles

Tallamy

Darlington

Pesek

et al. 2003

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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In the spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), males court females during copulation by stroking them with their antennae. Stroking occurs exclusively during the rst stages of copulation, after a male has penetrated a female's vaginal duct but before he is allowed access to her bursa copulatrix. Females accept the spermatophore of fast-stroking males and reject those of slow-stroking males by relaxing or constricting muscles distorting the vaginal duct. Here, we measure the repeatability of stroking behaviour within males, examine the effect of losing one antenna on male attractiveness and test whether such female control results in direct phenotypic bene ts for the discriminating female or indirect genetic bene ts that appear in her offspring. We also use a half-sibling design to quantify the variance and heritability of stroking speed and endurance. Female beetles were paired with a male that was known to stroke either quickly or slowly. No difference was found in the resulting fecundity or egg-hatching rate of the females, or in the survivorship, development rate, size, age at rst reproduction or fecundity of their offspring indicating that no direct bene ts are gained by discriminating among males on the basis of stroking speed. There were, however, good-genes bene ts for the mates of fast-stroking males. Offspring of fast-stroking fathers were also fast strokers and were more likely to be accepted as mates than offspring of slow-stroking fathers. There was substantial variance among sires in stroking speed and endurance and the heritability of each trait was high. The antennal stroking rate was highly repeatable in successive mating attempts and males with only one antenna were not accepted as mates. The repeatability within males, variability between males and heritability between generations of copulatory stroking combine to provide females with a reliable and honest signal of the genetic quality of courting males.

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Copulatory courtship signals male genetic quality in cucumber beetles

Tallamy

Darlington

Pesek

et al. 2003

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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“…Thus, each tournament yielded 30 attractive and 30 unattractive males. Unlike many previous studies that use single morphological (Miller and Pitnick 2002;Pilastro et al 2004) or behavioural (Edvardsson and Arnqvist 2000;Pizzari and Birkhead 2000;Tallamy et al 2002) traits to assign male attractiveness, our biological assay incorporates all factors contributing to short-range male attractiveness (Boake 1985;Fedorka and Mousseau 2002;Kokko et al 2003;Head et al 2005).…”

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“…Here we adopt a broad definition of CFC that includes both copulatory (e.g., female control of sperm transfer) and post-copulatory (e.g., sperm selection) female processes that may bias paternity towards certain males (Thornhill 1983;Eberhard 1996;Andres and Rivera 2000;Tallamy et al 2002). More importantly, CFC is controversial because of the numerous challenges that must be overcome to formally demonstrate its existence (Birkhead 1998;Telford and Jennions 1998;Eberhard 2000;Kempenaers et al 2000;Pitnick and Brown 2000).…”

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Sexual Conflict and Cryptic Female Choice in the Black Field Cricket, Teleogryllus Commodus

Bussière

Hunt

Jennions

et al. 2006

Evol

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“…Evidence of cryptic female mate choice has been found in several insect taxa (Otronen, 1997;Johnson et al, 1999;Ward, 2000;Tallamy et al, 2002). Males have been found to be able to influence cryptic female mate choice in some insects, by tapping the female's genitalia (Otronen, 1997) and stroking the female with their antennae (Tallamy et al, 2002). Cryptic female mate choice and sperm competition may well act in concert, for example, males that are better sperm competitors also produce fitter offspring in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria (Hosken et al, 2003).…”

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The effect of an inversion system and the time interval between matings on postcopulatory sexual selection in the seaweed fly, Coelopa frigida

Blyth

Gilburn

2005

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The seaweed fly, Coelopa frigida, exhibits LMSP. A large chromosomal inversion system affects many traits including egg-to-adult viability via heterosis. Consequently, there is also considerable potential for cryptic female mate choice to operate on the basis of sperm karyotype. Here, we investigated the effect of time interval and chromosomal inversion karyotype on postcopulatory sexual selection. Homokaryotypic females were mated with a male of the same and a male of the opposite homokaryotype. The order of the matings was varied so cryptic female mate choice could operate either in concert or antagonistically with LMSP. LMSP was found when there was a 24 h time interval between matings, irrespective of the order in which the males were mated. However, when the males were mated in quick succession the order of mating was important. When LMSP and cryptic female mate choice work in concert a high level of LMSP was found. However, when the male of opposite homokaryotype mated first, then first male sperm precedence was observed. This suggests that polyandrous females might be able to bias paternity but only when matings occur in quick succession. Consequently, population density is likely to affect the operation of postcopulatory sexual selection. Heredity (2005) 95, 174-178.

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Male traits under cryptic female choice in the spotted cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Cited by 71 publications

References 61 publications

Copulatory courtship signals male genetic quality in cucumber beetles

Copulatory courtship signals male genetic quality in cucumber beetles

Sexual Conflict and Cryptic Female Choice in the Black Field Cricket, Teleogryllus Commodus

The effect of an inversion system and the time interval between matings on postcopulatory sexual selection in the seaweed fly, Coelopa frigida

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