Assortative mating by size: A meta-analysis of mating patterns in water striders

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 265-284

  Arnqvist, Göran ^a,d   Rowe, Locke ^b   Krupa, James J ^c   Sih, Andy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Genetic variation; Gerridae; Meta analysis; Non random mating; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; WATER STRIDER;

GERRIDAE; HETEROPTERA;

EID: 0030467696     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01237684     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Arak, A. (1983) Male-male competition and mate choice in anuran amphibians. In Mate choice (P. Bateson, ed.) pp. 181-210. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
2. Arnqvist, G. (1989) Sexual selection in a water strider: the function, nature of selection and heritability of a male grasping apparatus. Oikos 56, 344-50.
3. Arnqvist, G. (1990) Heritability estimates of morphological traits in Gerris odontogaster (Zett.) (Heteroptera; Gerridae). Hereditas 112, 89-91.
4. Arnqvist, G. (1992a) Precopulatory fighting in a water strider: intersexual conflict or mate assessment? Anim. Behav. 43, 559-67.
5. Arnqvist, G. (1992b) The effects of operational sex ratio on the relative mating success of extreme male phenotypes in the water strider Gerris odontogaster (Zett.) (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Anim. Behav. 43, 681-3.
6. Arnqvist, G. (1992c) Spatial variation in selective regimes: sexual selection in the water strider, Gerris odontogaster. Evolution 46, 914-29.
7. Arnqvist, G. (1995) The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts. In Social competition and cooperation in insects and arachnids: Vol. I. Evolution of mating systems (J.C. Choe and B.J. Crespi, eds), in press. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
8. Arnqvist, G. and Wooster, D. (1995). Meta-analysis: synthesizing research findings in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecol. Evol., 10, 236-40.
9. Brown, W.D. (1993) The cause of size-assortative mating in the leaf beetle Trirhabda canadensis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 33, 151-7.
10. Christy, J.H. (1983) Female choice in the resource-defence mating system of the sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 12, 169-80.
11. Cohen, J. (1988) Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale.
12. Cooper, H.M. and Hedges, L.V. (1994) The Handbook of Research Synthesis. Russel Sage Foundation, New York.
13. Crespi, B.J. (1989) Causes of assortative mating in arthropods. Anim. Behav. 38, 980-1000.
14. Crow, J. and Felsenstein, J. (1968) The effect of assortative mating on the genetic composition of a population. Eugen. Qt. 15, 85-97.
15. Dick, J.T.A. and Elwood, R.W. (1993) The mating system of Gammarus pulex: a negligible role for microhabitat segregation. Anim. Behav. 45, 188-90.
16. Fairbairn, D.J. (1988) Sexual selection for homogamy in the Gerridae: an extension of Ridley's comparative approach. Evolution 42, 1212-22.
17. Falconer, D.S. (1981) Introduction to Quantitative Genetics. John Wiley, New York.
18. Foster, W.A. and Treherne, I.E. (1982) Reproductive behavior of the ocean skater Halobates robustus (Hemiptera: Gerridae) in the Galapagos Islands. Oecologia 55, 202-7.
19. Gurevitch, J. and Hedges, L.V. (1993) Meta-analysis: combining the results of independent experiments. In Design and analysis of ecological experiments (S.M. Scheiner and J. Gurevitch, eds), pp. 378-98. Chapman & Hall, New York.
20. Gurevitch, J., Morrow, L.L., Wallace, A. and Walsh, J.S. (1992) A meta-analysis of competition in field experiments. Am. Nat. 140, 539-72.
21. Harvey, P.H. and Pagel, M.D. (1991) The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
22. Hedges, L.V. and Olkin, I. (1985) Statistical Methods for Meta-analysis. Academic Press, Orlando, FL.
23. Hunter, J.E. and Schmidt, F.L. (1990) Methods of Meta-analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA.
24. Hurlbert, S.H. (1984) Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecol. Monogr. 54, 187-211.
25. Jormalainen, V., Tuomi, J. and Merilaita, S. (1994) Effect of female resistance on size-dependent precopula duration in mate-guarding Crustacea. Anim. Behav. 47, 1471-4.
26. Järvinen, A. (1991) A meta-analytic study of the effects of female age on laying-date and clutch-size in the Great Tit Parus major and the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca. Ibis 133, 62-7.
27. Kirby, K.N. (1993) Advanced Data Analysis with SYSTAT. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
28. Krupa, J.J. and Sih, A. (1993) Experimental studies on water strider mating dynamics: spatial variation in density and sex ratio. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 33, 107-20.
29. Nummelin, M., Vepsäläinen, K. and Spence, J.R. (1984) Habitat partitioning among developmental stages of waterstriders (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Oikos 42, 267-75.
30. Partridge, L. (1983) Non-random mating and offspring fitness. In Mate choice (P. Bateson, ed.), pp. 227-56. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
31. Poulin, R. (1994) Meta-analysis of parasite-induced behavioural changes. Anim. Behav. 48, 137-46.
32. Reid, D.G., Abello, P., Warman, C.G. and Naylor, E. (1994) Size-related mating success in the shore crab Carcinus maenas (Crustacea: Brachyura). J. Zool. (Lond.) 232, 397-407.
33. Ridley, M. (1983) The Explanation of Organic Diversity: The Comparative Method and Adaptations for Mating. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
34. Rosenthal, R. (1991) Meta-analytic Procedures for Social Reserach. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA.
35. Rosenthal, R. and Rosnow, R.L. (1991) Essentials of Behavioural Research: Methods and Data Analysis. McGraw-Hill, New York.
36. Rowe, L. (1992) Conveniance polyandry in a water strider: foraging conflicts and female control of copulation frequency and guarding duration. Anim. Behav. 44, 189-202.
37. Rowe, L. and Arnqvist, G. (1995) Analysis of the causal components of assortative mating in water striders. (manuscript)
38. Rowe, L., Arnqvist, G., Sih, A. and Krupa, J.J. (1994) Sexual conflict and the evolutionary ecology of mating patterns: water striders as a model system. Trends Ecol. Evol. 9, 289-93.
39. Rubenstein, D.I. (1984) Resource acquisition and alternative mating strategies in water striders. Am. Zool. 24, 345-53.
40. Shradish, W.R. and Haddock, C.K. (1994) Combining estimates of effect size. In The handbook of research synthesis (H.M. Cooper and L.V. Hedges, eds), pp. 215-30. Russel Sage Foundation, New York.
41. Sih, A. and Krupa, J.J. (1992) Predation risk, food deprivation and non-random mating by size in the stream water strider, Aquarius remigis. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 31, 51-6.
42. Sih, A. and Krupa, J.J. (1995) Interacting effects of predation risk, sex ratio and density on male-female conflicts and mating dynamics of the stream-dwelling water strider, Aquarius remigis. Behav. Ecol. (in press)
43. Snead, J.S. and Alcock, J. (1985) Aggregation formation and assortative mating in two meloid beetles. Evolution 39, 1123-31.
44. Sokal, R.R. and Rohlf, F.J. (1981) Biometry. W.H. Freeman, San Fransisco.
45. Spence, J.R. (1981) Experimental analysis of microhabitat selection in water-striders (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Ecology 62, 1505-14.
46. Spence, J.R. and Andersen, N.M. (1994) Biology of water striders: interactions between systematics and ecology. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 39, 97-124.
47. Tonhasca, A. and Byrne, D.N. (1994) The effects of crop diversification on herbivorous insects: a meta-analysis approach. Ecol. Entomol. 19, 239-44.
48. VanderWerf, E. (1992) Lack's clutch size hypothesis: an examination of the evidence using meta-analysis. Ecology 73, 1699-705.
49. Ward, P.I. (1993) Micro-habitat segregation and the mating system of Gammarus pulex. Anim. Behav. 45, 191-2.
50. Ward, P.I. and Porter, A.H. (1993) The relative roles of habitat structure and male-male competition in the mating system of Gammarus pulex (Crustacea; Amphipoda): a simulation study. Anim. Behav. 45, 119-33.
51. Wilkinson, L. (1987) SYSTAT: The System for Statistics. SYSTAT Inc., Evanston, IL.
52. Williams, S.M. and Sarkar, S. (1994) Assortative mating and the adaptive landscape. Evolution 48, 868-75.
53. Zar, J.H. (1984) Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.