Female sand gobies gain direct benefits by choosing males with eggs in their nests

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 91-96

  Forsgren, Elisabet ^a,b   Karlsson, Anna ^a   Kvarnemo, Charlotta ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Filial cannibalism; Gobiidae; Mate choice; Paternal care; Pomatoschistus minutus

Indexed keywords

EGG LAYING; MATE CHOICE; PATERNAL CARE; SAND GOBY;

POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS;

EID: 0029659267     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050270     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Ahnesjö I (1992) Consequences of male brood care: weight and number of newborn in a sex-role reversed pipefish. Funct Ecol 6:274-281
2. Coleman RM, Fischer RU (1991) Brood size, male fanning effort and the energetics of a nonshareable parental investment in bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus (Teleostei: Centrarchidae). Ethology 87:177-188
3. Coleman RM, Gross MR, Sargent RC (1985) Parental investment decision rules: a test in bluegill sunfish. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 18:59-66
4. De Martini EE (1987) Paternal defence, cannibalism and polygamy: factors influencing the reproductive success of painted greenling (Pisces, Hexagrammidae). Anim Behav 35:1145-1158
5. Dominey WJ, Blumer LS (1984) Cannibalism of early life history stages in fishes. In: Hausfater G, Hrdy SB (eds) Infanticide: comparative and evolutionary perspectives. Aldine, Hawthorne, New York, pp 43-64
6. Dugatkin LA (1992) Sexual selection and imitation: females copy the mate choice of others. Am Nat 139:1384-1389
7. Dugatkin LA, Godin J-GJ (1992) Reversal of female mate choice by copying in the guppy Poecilia reticulata. Proc R Soc Lond B 249:179-184
8. FitzGerald GJ (1992) Filial cannibalism in fishes: why do parents eat their offspring? Trends Ecol Evol 7:7-10
9. Fonds M (1973) Sand gobies in the Dutch Wadden sea (Pomatoschistus minutas, Pisces: Gobiidae). Neth J Sea Res 6:417-478
10. Forsgren E (1992) Predation risk affects mate choice in a gobiid fish. Am Nat 140:1041-1049
11. Forsgren E (in press) Female mate sampling in a population of sand gobies Pomatoschistus minutus. Anim Behav
12. Gibson RM, Höglund J (1992) Copying and sexual selection. Trends Ecol Evol 7:229-231
13. Goldschmidt T, Bakker TCM, Feuth-De Brurjn E (1993) Selective copying in mate choice of female sticklebacks. Anim Behav 45:541-547
14. Gronell AM (1989) Visiting behaviour by females of the sexually dichromatic damselfish, Chrypsiptera cyanea (Teleostei: Pomacentridae): a probable method of assessing male quality Ethology 81:89-122
15. Hamilton WD (1971) Geometry for the selfish herd. J Theor Biol 31:295-311
16. Healey MC (1971) Gonad development and fecundity of the sand goby, Gobius minutus Pallas. Trans Am Fish Soc 100: 520-526
17. Hesthagen IH (1977) Migrations, breeding and growth in Pomatoschistus minutus, Pallas (Pisces: Gobiidae) in Oslo fjorden, Norway Sarsia 63:17-26
18. Iersel JJA van (1953) An analysis of the parental behavior of the male three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.). Behaviour Suppl 3:1-159
19. Jamieson IG (1995) Do female fish prefer to spawn in nests with eggs for reasons of mate choice copying or egg survival? Am Nat 145:824-832
20. Jamieson IG, Colgan PW (1989) Eggs in the nests of males and their effect on mate choice in the three-spined stickleback. Anim Behav 38:859-865
21. Knapp RA, Sargent RC (1989) Egg mimicry as a mating strategy in the fantail darter, Etheostoma flabellare: females prefer males with eggs. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 25:321-326
22. Kraak SBM, Groothius TGG (1994) Female preference for nests with eggs is based on the presence of the eggs themselves. Behaviour 131:189-206
23. Kraak SBM, Berghe EP van den (1992) Do female fish assess paternal quality by means of test eggs? Anim Behav 43:865-867
24. Kvarnemo C (1994) Temperature differentially affects male and female reproductive rates in the sand goby: consequences for operational sex ratio. Proc R Soc Lond B 256:151-156
25. Lindström K, Hellström M (1993) Male size and parental care in the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus. Ethol Ecol Evol 5:97-106
26. Losey GS, Stanton FG, Telecky TM, Tyler WA, the Zoology 691 Graduate Seminar Class (1986) Copying others, an evolutionarily stable strategy for mate choice: a model. Am Nat 128:653-664
27. Magnhagen C (1986) Activity differences influencing food selection in the marine fish Pomatoschistus microps. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 43:223-227
28. Magnhagen C, Vestergaard K (1993) Brood size and offspring age affect risk-taking and aggression in nest-guarding common gobies. Behaviour 125:233-243
29. Marconato A, Bisazza A (1986) Males whose nests contain eggs are preferred by female Cottus gobio (Pisces: Cottidae). Anim Behav 34:1580-1582
30. Marconato A, Bisazza A (1988) Mate choice, egg cannibalism and reproductive success in the river bullhead. Cottus gobio L. J Fish Biol 33:905-916
31. Marconato A, Bisazza A, Fabris N (1993) The cost of parental care and egg cannibalism in the river bullhead, Cottus gobio L. (Pisces, Cottidae). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 32:229-237
32. Petersen CW, Marchetti K (1989) Filial cannibalism in the Cortez damselfish Stegastes rectifraenum. Evolution 43:158-168
33. Polis GA (1981) The evolution and dynamics of intraspecific predation. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 12:225-251
34. Pressley PH (1981) Parental effort and the evolution of nest-guarding tactics in the threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus L. Evolution 35:282-295
35. Pruett-Jones S (1992) Independent versus nonindependent mate choice: do females copy each other? Am Nat 140: 1000-1009
36. Reebs SG, Whoriskey FG Jr, FitzGerald GJ (1984) Diel patterns of fanning activity, egg respiration, and the nocturnal behaviour of male three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Can J Zool 62:329-334
37. Ridgway MS (1989) The parental response to brood size manipulation in smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui). Ethology 80:47-54
38. Ridley M (1978) Paternal care. Anim Behav 26:904-932
39. Ridley M. Rechten C (1981) Female sticklebacks prefer to spawn with males whose nests contain eggs. Behaviour 76:152-161
40. Rohwer S (1978) Parent cannibalism of offspring and egg raiding as a courtship strategy. Am Nat 112:429-440
41. Salfert IG, Moodie GEE (1985) Filial egg-cannibalism in the brook stickleback, Culacea inconstans. Behaviour 93:82-100
42. Sargent RC (1988) Paternal care and egg survival both increase with clutch size in the fathead minnow, Pimephales promelas. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 23:33-37
43. Sikkel P (1989) Egg presence and developmental stage influence spawning site choice by female garibaldi. Anim Behav 38:447-456
44. Summers K (1990) Paternal care and the cost of polygyny in the green dart-poison frog. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 27:307-313
45. Torricelli P, Lugli M, Gandolfi G (1985) A quantitative analysis of the fanning activity in the male Padogobius martensi (Pisces: Gobiidae). Behaviour 92:288-301
46. Unger LM, Sargent RC (1988) Allopaternal care in the fathead minnow, Pimephales promelas: females prefer males with eggs. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 23:27-32
47. Witlenberger JF (1983) Tactics of mate choice. In: Bateson P (ed) Mate choice, 1st edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 433-447