No pain, no gain: Male plasticity in burrow digging according to female rejection in a sand-dwelling wolf spider

Carballo, M.; Baldenegro, Fabiana; Bollatti, Fedra; Peretti, Alfredo V.; Aisenberg, Anita

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2017.05.007

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“…Being housed with groups of males or females induces fruitless knockout Drosophila males, which have lost their ability to court, to recover their courtship behavior, and wild type males to reduce their same-sex sexual behaviors (Bailey et al, 2013;Pan and Baker, 2014). Burrow-digging spider males enlarged their burrows upon rejections by females, which increases their chances of mating, as females prefer larger burrows (Carballo et al, 2017).…”

Section: Social Exposure Without Clearly Identified Learned Signalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Learning on Insect and Spider Sexual Behaviors, Sexual Trait Evolution, and Speciation

2019

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We review experimental and theoretical evidence that learning in insects and spiders affects the expression of mate preferences and of sexual signals, the evolution of both traits, and ultimately patterns of assortative mating, and speciation. Both males and females can modify their sexual preferences and signaling based on previous social interactions or the experience of visual, olfactory, gustatory, or auditory signals. Learning takes place during an early life exposure, previous personal sexual experiences or by observing the choices of others, and it can occur sometimes via very short (a few seconds) exposures to individuals or signals. We briefly review some of the molecular mechanisms that mediate learning in insects, as well as theoretical work that assesses how learning impacts the evolution of insect sexual traits and speciation. We suggest that future research should attempt to provide evidence of the adaptive nature of learning, which remains scarce in insects as well as in vertebrates, and explore further the mechanisms of learning in order to probe into their possible transgenerational inheritance. Future studies should also model how this process might further affect the evolution of sexual traits, and provide a unifying terminology for the underlying mechanisms of learning across diverse life-history contexts.

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Section: Social Exposure Without Clearly Identified Learned Signalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Learning on Insect and Spider Sexual Behaviors, Sexual Trait Evolution, and Speciation

2019

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“…Finally, in the burrow-building wolf spider Allocosa senex (Arachnida: Lycosidae) females choose males that construct long burrows [ 187 ]. A male will enlarge its burrow after female rejection [ 188 ]. After mating, the male leaves its burrow, seals its entrance and leaves the female caring for the offspring [ 187 ].…”

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How sexual and natural selection interact and shape the evolution of nests and nesting behaviour in fishes

Svensson

Kvarnemo

2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Among ray-finned fishes that provide parental care, many spawn in constructed nests, ranging from bowls, burrows and ridges to nests made of algae or bubbles. Because a nest by definition is a construction that enhances the nest-builder's fitness by helping it meet the needs of the developing offspring, nest-building behaviour is naturally selected, as is a preference for spawning with mates that provide well-built nests. However, nest-building behaviour can also be sexually selected, when nest traits increase mating success, protect against sperm competition or nest take-overs by conspecifics. Here, we offer a systematic review, with examples of how competition for sites and location of fish nests relates to sexual selection. We examine direct and indirect benefits of mate choice linked to nest traits, and different types of nests, from a sexual selection perspective. Nest-related behaviours are often under both natural and sexual selection, and we disentangle examples where that is the case, with special attention to females. We highlight some taxa in which nest building is likely to be sexually selected, but lack of research has left them uninvestigated. Some of them are established aquarium species, making them particularly amenable for future research. Finally, we compare with arthropods, amphibians and birds. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach’.

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“…In the wolf spider S. ocreata , penultimate females with more male visits are more selective as adults (Stoffer & Uetz, 2015 ), females exposed to only large‐tufted males or males with a mixture of tuft sizes demonstrated more receptivity displays to large‐tufted males than small tufted males (Stoffer & Uetz, 2016 ). In a burrow‐digging spider Allocosa senex , males with rejected experience enlarged their burrows more frequently and burrows were longer compared to non‐exposed males, indicating that males have plasticity in digging behavior in response to the availability of females (Carballo et al, 2017 ). In our study, plants were added to group rearing to simulate the social environment in which they lived in preparation for subsequent field experiments.…”

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Communal rearing induces high predatory capacity in a solitary wolf spider and its potential in pest control

Peng

Zhang

et al. 2023

Ecology and Evolution

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Behavioral plasticity is of great significance because it allows individuals to reversibly respond to variations in the ecological and social environment to increase their fitness (Bretman et al., 2011).Early exposure to new ornamentations in fruit flies (Verzijden et al., 2015) or butterflies (Westerman et al., 2012) led to shifts in mate preferences in sexually mature older individuals. Many other studies have reported that prior experience influences mate choice

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No pain, no gain: Male plasticity in burrow digging according to female rejection in a sand-dwelling wolf spider

Cited by 16 publications

References 42 publications

The Role of Learning on Insect and Spider Sexual Behaviors, Sexual Trait Evolution, and Speciation

The Role of Learning on Insect and Spider Sexual Behaviors, Sexual Trait Evolution, and Speciation

How sexual and natural selection interact and shape the evolution of nests and nesting behaviour in fishes

Communal rearing induces high predatory capacity in a solitary wolf spider and its potential in pest control

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