Parental optimism and progeny choice: When is screening for offspring quality affordable?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-14

  Forbes, L Scott ^a   Mock, Douglas W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIBLING;

ARENA; AVES;

EID: 0032492836     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1997.0596     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. ALEXANDER, R. D. (1974). The evolution of social behavior. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 5, 325-383.
2. ANDERSON, D. J. (1989). The role of hatching asynchrony in siblicidal brood reduction of two booby species. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 25, 363-368.
3. ANDERSON, D. J. (1990a). Evolution of obligate siblicide in boobies - I. A test of the insurance-egg hypothesis. Am. Nat. 135, 334-350.
4. ANDERSON, D. J. (1990b). Evolution of obligate siblicide in boobies - II. Food limitation and parent-offspring conflict. Evol. 44, 2069-2082.
5. AUSTAD, S. N. & SUNDQUIST, M. E. (1986). Sex-ratio manipulation in the common opossum. Nature 324, 58-60.
6. BARTLETT, J. (1987). Filial cannibalism in burying beetles. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 21, 179-183.
7. BAUR, B. (1992). Cannibalism in gastropods. In: Cannibalism. Ecology and Evolution Among Diverse Taxa (Elgar, M. A. & Crespi, B. J., eds), pp. 102-127. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. BEEMAN, R. W., FRIESEN, K. S. & DENELL, R. E. (1992). Maternal-effect selfish genes in flour beetles. Science 256, 89-92.
9. BUCHHOLZ, J. T. (1922). Developmental selection in vascular plants. Bot. Gaz. 73, 249-286.
10. BULL, J. J., MOLINEUX, I. J. & WERREN, J. H. (1992). Selfish genes. Science 256, 65.
11. CHARNOV, E. L. (1982). The Theory of Sex Allocation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
12. CHARNOV, E. L., LOS-DEN HARTOGH, R. L., JONES, W. T. & VAN DEN ASSEM, J. (1981). Sex ratio evolution in a variable environment. Nature 289, 27-33.
13. CHEPLICK, G. P. (1987). The ecology of amphicarpic plants. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2, 97-101.
14. CHEPLICK, G. P. (1992). Sibling competition in plants. J. Ecol. 80, 567-575.
15. CHEPLICK, G. P. & QUINN, J. A. (1982). Amphicarpum pushii and the pessimistic strategy in amphicarpic annuals with subterranean fruit. Oecologia 52, 327-332.
16. CLUTTON-BROCK, T. H. (1991). The Evolution of Parental Care. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
17. CRUMP, M. (1992). Cannibalism in amphibians. In: Cannibalism. Ecology and Evolution Among Diverse Taxa (Elgar, M. A. & Crespi, B. J., eds), pp. 256-276. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
18. DALY, M. & WILSON, M. (1984). A sociobiological analysis of human infanticide. In: Infanticide. Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives (Hausfater, G. & Hrdy, S. B., eds), pp. 487-502. New York: Aldine.
19. DORWARD, E. F. (1962). Comparative biology of the white booby and brown booby Sula spp at Ascension. Ibis 103b, 174-220.
20. FISHER, R. A. (1958). The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, 2nd Edn. New York: Dover.
21. FORBES, L. S. (1990). Insurance offspring and the evolution of avian clutch size. J. theor. Biol. 147, 345-359.
22. FORBES, L. S. (1991). Insurance offspring and brood reduction in a variable environment: the costs and benefits of pessimism. Oikos 62, 325-332.
23. FORBES, L. S. & LAMEY, T. C. (1996). Insurance, developmental accidents, and the risks of putting all your eggs in one basket. J. theor. Biol. 180, 247-256.
24. FRANK, L. G., GLICKMAN, S. E. & LIGHT, P. (1991). Fatal sibling aggression, precocial development, and androgens in neonatal spotted hyenas. Science 252, 702-704.
25. FRASER, D. (1990). Behavioural perspectives on piglet survival. J. Reprod. Fert., Suppl. 40, 355-370.
26. FUJIOKA, M. (1985). Food delivery and sibling competition in experimentally even-aged broods of the cattle egret. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 17, 67-74.
27. GANESHAIAH, K. N., UMA SHAANKER, R. & SHIVASHANKER, G. (1986). Stigmatic inhibition of pollen grain germination - its implication for frequency distribution of seed number in pods of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam) de Wit. Oecologia 70, 568-572.
28. GARGETT, V. (1978). Sibling aggression in the black eagle in the Matopos, Rhodesia. Ostrich 49, 57-63.
29. GILMORE, R. G., DODRILL, J. W. & LINLEY, P. A. (1983). Reproduction and development of the sand tiger shark, Odontaspis taurus (Rafinesque). Fishery Bull. 81, 201-225.
30. GODFRAY, H. C. J. (1994). Parasitoids. Behavioral and Evolutionary Biology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
31. HAHN, D. C. (1981). Asynchronous hatching in the laughing gull: cutting losses and reducing rivalry. Anim. Behav. 29, 421-427.
32. HAIG, D. (1992). Brood reduction in gymnosperms. In: Cannibalism. Ecology and Evolution Among Diverse Taxa (Elgar, M. A. & Crespi, B. J., eds), pp. 63-84. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33. HAMILTON, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour - I and II. J. theor. Biol. 7, 1-52.
34. HRDY, S. B. (1979). Infanticide among animals: a review, classification, and examination of the implications for the reproductive strategies of females. Ethol. Sociobiol. 1, 13-40.
35. HRDY, S. B. (1992). Fitness trade-offs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment and infanticide. Ethol. Sociobiol. 13, 409-442.
36. HRDY, S. B. & JUDGE, D. S. (1993). Darwin and the puzzle of primogeniture: an essay on biases in parental investment after death. Human Nature 4, 1-45.
37. HULL, T. H. (1990). Recent trends in sex ratios at birth in China. Popn. Dev. Review 16, 63-83.
38. KOZLOWSKI, J. & STEARNS, S. C. (1989). Hypotheses for the production of excess zygotes: models of bet-hedging and selective abortion. Evol. 43, 1369-1377.
39. LACK, D. (1947). The significance of clutch size. Ibis 89, 302-352.
40. LEE, T. D. (1988). Patterns of fruit and seed production. In: Plant Reproductive Ecology (Lovett Doust, J. & Lovett Doust, L., eds), pp. 179-202. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
41. LESSELLS, C. M. & AVERY, M. I. (1989). Hatching asynchrony in European bee-eaters Merops apiaster. J. Anim. Ecol. 58, 815-835.
42. LLOYD, D. G. (1980). Sexual strategies in plants - I. An hypothesis of serial adjustment of maternal investment during one reproductive session. New Phytol. 86, 69-79.
43. LUNDBERG, S. (1985). The importance of egg hatchability and nest predation in clutch size evolution in altricial birds. Oikos 45, 110-117.
44. LYON, B. E., EADIE, J. M. & HAMILTON, J. D. (1994). Parental choice selects for ornamental plumage in American coot chicks. Nature 371, 240-243.
45. LYONS, A. & SPIGHT, T. M. (1973). Diversity of feeding mechanisms among embryos of Pacific northwest Thais. Veliger 16, 184-194.
46. MAGRATH, R. D. (1989). Hatching asynchrony and reproductive success in the blackbird. Nature 339, 536-538.
47. MAYNARD SMITH, J. & PARKER, G. A. (1976). The logic of asymmetric contests. Anim. Behav. 24, 159-174.
48. MCCLURE, P. A. (1981). Sex-biased litter reduction in food-restricted wood rats (Neotoma floridana). Science 211, 1058-1060.
49. MILLAR, J. S. (1973). Evolution of litter-size in the pika Ochotoma princeps (Richardson). Evol. 27, 134-143.
50. MOCK, D. W. & FORBES, L. S. (1992). Parent-offspring conflict: a case of arrested development? Trends Ecol. Evol. 7, 409-413.
51. MOCK, D. W. & FORBES, L. S. (1995). The evolution of parental optimism. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10, 130-134.
52. MOCK, D. W. & PARKER, G. A. (1986). Advantages and disadvantages of egret and heron brood reduction. Evol. 40, 459-470.
53. MOCK, D. W. & PARKER, G. A. (1997). The Evolution of Sibling Rivalry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
54. MOCK, D. W. & PLOGER, B. J. (1987). Parental manipulation of optimal hatch asynchrony in cattle egrets: an experimental study. Anim. Behav. 35, 150-160.
55. MUELLER, U. G. (1991). Haplodiploidy and the evolution of facultative sex ratios in a primitively eusocial bee. Science 254, 442-444.
56. PFENNIG, D. W. & COLLINS, J. P. (1993). Kinship affects morphogenesis in cannibalistic salamanders. Nature 362, 836-838.
57. RANANAMMA, A. & BAMBAWALE, U. (1980). The mania for sons: an analysis of social values in Southeast Asia. Soc. Sci. and Med. 14B, 107-110.
58. RAO, R. (1986). Move to stop sex-test abortion. Nature 324, 202.
59. ROFF, D. A. (1992). The Evolution of Life Histories. New York: Chapman & Hall.
60. SCHWABL, H. (1993). Yolk is a source of testosterone for developing birds. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 11446-11450.
61. SCHWABL, H., MOCK, D. W. & GIEG, J. A. (1997). A hormonal mechanism for parental favouritism. Nature 386, 231.
62. SCRIMSHAW, S. C. (1984). Infanticide in human populations: societal and individual concerns. In: Infanticide. Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives (Hausfater, G. & Hrdy, S. B., eds), pp. 487-502. New York: Aldine.
63. SHANN, E. W. (1923). The embryonic development of the porbeagle shark, Lamna cornubica. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1923, 161-171.
64. SIMMONS, R. (1988). Offspring quality and the evolution of cainism. Ibis 130, 339-357.
65. SPRINGER, S. (1948). Oviphagous embryos of the sand shark, Carcharias taurus. Copeia 1948, 153-157.
66. STEARNS, S. C. (1987). The selection-arena hypothesis. In: The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences (Stearns, S. C., ed.), pp. 337-349. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag.
67. STEARNS, S. C. (1992). The Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
68. STEPHENSON, A. G. (1981). Flower and fruit abortion: proximate causes and ultimate functions. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 12, 253-280.
69. STOLESON, S. H. & BEISSINGER, S. R. (1995). Hatching asynchrony and the onset of incubation in birds, revisited: when is the critical period? In Current Ornithology (D. M. Power, ed). Vol. 12, pp. 191-270. New York: Plenum Press.
70. TEMME, D. H. & CHARNOV, E. L. (1987). Brood size adjustment in birds: economical tracking in a temporally varying environment. J. theor. Biol. 126, 137-147.
71. TRIVERS, R. L. & WILLARD, D. E. (1973). Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring. Science 179, 90-92.
72. UMA SHAANKER, R., GANESHAIAH, K. N. & BAWA, K. S. (1988). Parent-offspring conflict, sibling rivalry, and brood size patterns in plants. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 19, 177-206.
73. VOLAND, E. (1988). Differential infant and child mortality in evolutionary perspective: Data from late 17th to 19th century Ostfriesland (Germany). In: Human Reproductive Behaviour (Betzig, L., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. & Turke, P., eds), pp. 253-261. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.