The effects of reproduction on courtship, fertility and longevity within and between alternative male mating tactics of the horned beetle, Onthophagus binodis

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 488-495

  Simmons, Leigh W ^a   Kotiaho, J S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alternative mating tactics; Cost of reproduction; Ejaculate expenditure; Life history; Trade off

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FERTILITY; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL;

COLEOPTERA; ONTHOPHAGUS BINODIS;

EID: 33847049749     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01274.x     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Andersson, M. 1994. Sexual Selection. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
2. Baer, B. & Schmid-Hempel, P. 2005. Sperm influences female hibernation success, survival and fitness in the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 272: 319-323.
3. Barnes, A.I. & Partridge, L. 2003. Costing reproduction. Anim. Behav. 66: 199-204.
4. Barnes, A.I., Boone, J.M., Jacobson, J., Partridge, L. & Chapman, T. 2006. No extension of lifespan by ablation of germ line in Drosophila. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 273: 939-947.
5. Birkhead, T.R. & Parker, G.A. 1997. Sperm competition and mating systems. In: Behavioural Ecology an Evolutionary Approach. (J. R. Krebs & N. B. Davies, eds), pp. 121-145. Blackwell, Oxford.
6. Blanckenhorn, W.U., Hosken, D.J., Martin, O.Y., Reim, C., Teuschl, Y. & Ward, P.I. 2002. The costs of copulating in the dung fly Sepsis cynipsea. Behav. Ecol. 13: 353-358.
7. Brooks, R. 2000. Negative genetic correlation between male sexual attractiveness and survival. Nature 406: 67-70.
8. Chapman, T., Liddle, L.F., Kalb, J.M., Wolfner, M.F. & Partridge, L. 1995. Cost of mating in Drosophila melanogaster females is mediated by male accessory gland products. Nature 373: 241-244.
9. Chapman, T., Miyatake, T., Smith, H.K. & Partridge, L. 1998. Interactions of mating, egg production and death rates in females of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 265: 1879-1894.
10. Clutton-Brock, T. & Langley, P. 1997. Persistent courtship reduces male and female longevity in captive tsetse flies Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood (Diptera: glossinidae). Behav. Ecol. 8: 392-395.
11. Colegrave, N. & Ruxton, G.D. 2003. Confidence intervals are a more useful complement to nonsignificant tests than are power calculations. Behav. Ecol. 14: 446-447.
12. Cook, D. 1987. Sexual selection in dung beetles I. A multivariate study of the morphological variation in two species of Onthophagus (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini). Aust. J. Zool. 35: 123-132.
13. Cook, D. 1988. Sexual selection in dung beetles. II. Female fecundity as an estimate of male reproductive success in relation to horn size, and alternative behavioural strategies in Onthophagus binodis Thunberg (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini). Aust. J. Zool. 36: 521-532.
14. Cook, D.F. 1990. Differences in courtship, mating and postcopulatory behavior between male morphs of the dung beetle Onthophagus binodis Thunberg (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Anim. Behav. 40: 428-436.
15. Cordts, R. & Partridge, L. 1996. Courtship reduces longevity of male Drosophila melanogaster. Anim. Behav. 52: 269-278.
16. Crow, J.F. 1997. The high spontaneous mutation rate: is it a health risk? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94: 8380-8386.
17. Crudgington, H.S. & Siva-Jothy, M.T. 2000. Genital damage, kicking and early death. Nature 407: 855-856.
18. Danielsson, I. 2000. Antagonistic pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection on male body size in a water strider (Gerris lacustris). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 268: 77-81.
19. Emlen, D.J. 1997. Alternative reproductive tactics and maledimorphism in the horned beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 41: 335-342.
20. Fedorka, K.M., Zuk, M. & Mousseau, T.A. 2004. Immune supression and the cost of reproduction in the ground cricket Allenomobius socius. Evolution 58: 2478-2485.
21. Gaskin, T., Futerman, P. & Chapman, T. 2002. Increased density and male-male interactions reduce longevity in the medfly, Ceratitis capitata. Anim. Behav. 63: 121-129.
22. Houston, W.W.K. 1986. Exocrine glands in the forelegs of dung beetles in the genus Onitus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 25: 161-169.
23. Hsin, H. & Kenyon, C. 1999. Signals from the reproductive system regulate the lifespan of C. elegans. Nature 399: 362-366.
24. Hunt, J. & Simmons, L.W. 2000. Maternal and paternal effects on offspring phenotype in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus. Evolution 54: 936-941.
25. Hunt, J. & Simmons, L.W. 2002. Confidence of paternity and paternal care: covariation revealed through the experimental manipulation of the mating system in the beetle Onthophagus taurus. J. Evol. Biol. 15: 784-795.
26. Hunt, J., Simmons, L.W. & Kotiaho, J.S. 2002. A cost of maternal care in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus? J. Evol. Biol. 15: 57-64.
27. Hunt, J., Brooks, R., Jennions, M.D., Smith, M.J., Bentsen, C.L. & Bussiére, L.F. 2005. High-quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young. Nature 432: 1024-1027.
28. Johansson, B.G., Jones, T.M. & Widemo, F. 2005. Cost of pheromone production in a lekking Drosophila. Anim. Behav. 69: 851-858.
29. Johnson, D.H. 1999. The insignificance of statistical significance testing. J. Wildl. Manage. 63: 763-772.
30. Johnstone, R.A. 1995. Sexual selection, honest advertisement and the handicap principle: reviewing the evidence. Biol. Rev. 70: 1-65.
31. Jones, T.M. & Elgar, M.A. 2004. The role of male age, sperm age and mating history on fecundity and fertilization success in the hide beetle. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 271: 1311-1318.
32. Jones, T.M., Balmford, A. & Quinnell, R.J. 2000. Adaptive female choice for middle-aged mates in a lekking sandfly. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 267: 681-686.
33. Kidd, S.A., Eskenazi, B. & Wyrobek, A.J. 2001. Effects of male age on semen quality and fertility: a review of the literature. Fert. Steril. 75: 237-248.
34. Kokko, H. 1998. Good genes, old age and life-history trade-offs. Evol. Ecol. 12: 739-750.
35. Kokko, H. & Lindström, J. 1996. Evolution of female preference for old mates. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 263: 1533-1538.
36. Kotiaho, J.S. 2000. Testing the assumptions of conditional handicap theory: costs and condition dependence of a sexually selected trait. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 48: 188-194.
37. Kotiaho, J.S. 2002. Sexual selection and condition dependence of courtship display in three species of horned dung beetle. Behav. Ecol. 13: 791-799.
38. Kotiaho, J.S. & Simons, L.W. 2003. Longevity cost of reproduction for males but no longevity cost of mating or courtship for females in the male-dimorphic dung beetle Onthophagus binodis. J. Insect Physiol. 49: 817-822.
39. Kotiaho, J.S. & Tomkins, J.L. 2001. The discrimination of alternative male morphologies. Behav. Ecol. 12: 553-557.
40. Kotiaho, J.S., Alatalo, R.V., Mappes, J., Nielsen, M.G., Parri, S. & Rivero, A. 1998. Energetic costs of size and sexual signalling in a wolf spider. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 265: 2203-2209.
41. Kotiaho, J.S., Simmons, L.W. & Tomkins, J.L. 2001. Towards a resolution of the lek paradox. Nature 410: 684-686.
42. Lee, J.M. & Peng, Y.-S. 1981. Influence of adult size of Onthophagus gazella on manure pat degradation, nest construction, and progeny size. Environ. Entomol. 10: 626-630.
43. Liker, A. & Székely, T. 2005. Mortality costs of sexual selection and parental care in natural populations of birds. Evolution 59: 890-897.
44. Manning, A. 1961. The effects of artificial selection for mating speed in Drosophila melanogaster. Anim. Behav. 9: 82-92.
45. Martin, O.Y. & Hosken, D.J. 2004. Copulation reduces male but not female longevity in Saltella sphondylli. J. Evol. Biol. 17: 357-362.
46. Moczek, A.P. & Emlen, D.J. 2000. Male horn dimorphism in the scarab beetle Onthophagus taurus: do alternative reproductive tactics favor alternative phenotypes? Anim. Behav. 59: 459-466.
47. Moore, A.J. & Moore, P.J. 1999. Balancing sexual selection through opposing mate choice and male competition. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 266: 711-716.
48. Parker, G.A. 1970. Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects. Biol. Rev. 45: 525-567.
49. Parker, G.A. 1990a. Sperm competition games: raffles and roles. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 242: 120-126.
50. Parker, G.A. 1990b. Sperm competition games: sneaks and extra-pair copulations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 242: 127-133.
51. Parker, G.A. 1998. Sperm competition and the evolution of ejaculates: towards a theory base. In: Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection (T. R. Birkhead & A. P. Møller, eds), pp. 3-54. Academic Press, London.
52. Parsons, P.A. 1974. Male mating speed as a component of fitness in Drosophila. Behav. Genet. 4: 395-404.
53. Partridge, L. & Fowler, K. 1990. Non-mating costs of exposure to males in female Drosophila melanogaster. J. Insect Physiol. 36: 419-425.
54. Partridge, L., Green, A. & Fowler, K. 1987. Effects of eggproduction and of exposure to males on female survival in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Insect Physiol. 33: 745-749.
55. Pellestor, F., Girardet, A. & Andreo, B. 1994. Effect of long abstinence periods on human sperm quality. Int. J. Fertil. Menopausal Stud. 39: 278-282.
56. Preston, B.T., Stevenson, I.R., Pemberton, J.M. & Wilson, K. 2001. Dominant rams lose out by sperm depletion. Nature 409: 681-682.
57. Prowse, N. & Partridge, L. 1997. The effects of reproduction on longevity and fertility in male Drosophila melanogaster. J. Insect Physiol. 43: 501-511.
58. Reznick, D. 1985. Costs of reproduction: an evaluation of the empirical evidence. Oikos 44: 257-267.
59. Ridsdill-Smith, T.J., Hall, G.P. & Craig, G.F. 1982. Effect of population density on reproduction and dung dispersal by the dung beetle Onthophagus binodis in the laboratory. Ent. Exp. Appl. 32: 80-85.
60. Roff, D.A. 2002. Life History Evolution. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
61. Shackleton, M.A., Jennions, M.D. & Hunt, J. 2005. Fighting success and attractiveness as predictors of male mating success in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus: the effectiveness of no-choice tests. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 58: 1-8.
62. Simmons, L.W. 1988. Male size, mating potential and lifetime reproductive success in the field cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus (De Geer). Anim. Behav. 36: 372-379.
63. Simmons, L.W. 2001. Sperm Competition and its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
64. Simmons, L.W. & Kvarnemo, C. 2006. Costs of breeding and their effects on the direction of sexual selection. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 273: 465-470.
65. Simmons, L.W., Tomkins, J.L. & Hunt, J. 1999. Sperm competition games played by dimorphic male beetles. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 266: 145-150.
66. Siva-Jothy, M.T. 2000. The young sperm gambit. Ecol. Lett. 3: 172-174.
67. Smith, R.L. 1984. Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems. Academic Press, London.
68. Smith, P.H., Gillott, C., Barton Browne, L. & van Gerwen, A.C.M. 1990. The mating-induced refractoriness of Lucilia cuprina females: manipulating the male contribution. Physiol. Entomol. 15: 469-481.
69. Sowig, P. 1996. Duration and benefits of biparental brood care in the dung beetle Onthophagus vacca (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Ecol. Entomol. 21: 81-86.
70. Stearns, S.C. 1992. The Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
71. Stutt, A.D. & Siva-Jothy, M.T. 2001. Traumatic insemination and sexual conflict in the bed bug Cimex lectularius. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98: 5683-5687.
72. Tomkins, J.L. & Simmons, L.W. 2000. Sperm competition games played by dimorphic male beetles: fertilisation gains with equal mating access. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 267: 1547-1553.
73. Van Voorhies, W.A. 1992. Production of sperm reduces nematode lifespan. Nature 360: 456-458.
74. Visser, M.E. & Lessells, C.M. 2001. The costs of egg production and incubation in great tits (Parus major). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 268: 1271-1277.
75. Wedell, N., Gage, M.J.G. & Parker, G.A. 2002. Sperm competition, male prudence and sperm-limited females. Trends. Ecol. Evol. 17: 313-320.