Environmental and genetic influences on mating strategies along a replicated food availability gradient in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 689-701

  Kolluru, Gita R ^a   Grether, Gregory F ^a   Contreras, Heidy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance; Genotype by environment interaction; Geographic variation; Intrasexual competition; Mating tactic; Phenotypic plasticity; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATING BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 33847663428     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0299-5     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Abrahams MV (1993) The trade-off between foraging and courting in male guppies. Anim Behav 45:673-681
2. Belovsky GE, Slade JB, Chase JM (1996) Mating strategies based on foraging ability: an experiment with grasshoppers. Behav Ecol 7:438-444
3. Blanckenhorn WU, Preziosi RF, Fairbairn DF (1995) Time and energy constraints and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism-to eat or to mate? Evol Ecol 9:369-381
4. Brockmann HJ (2001) The evolution of alternative strategies and tactics. Adv Study Behav 30:1-51
5. Carroll SP (1993) Divergence in male mating tactics between two populations of the soapberry bug: I. guarding versus nonguarding. Behav Ecol 4:156-164
6. Carroll SP, Corneli PS (1995) Divergence in male mating tactics between two populations of the soapberry bug: II. genetic change and the evolution of a plastic reaction norm in a variable social environment. Behav Ecol 6:46-56
7. Carroll SP, Corneli PS (1999) The evolution of behavioral norms of reaction as a problem in ecological genetics: theory, methods, and data. In: Foster SA, Endler JA (eds) Geographic variation in behavior. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 52-68
8. Croft DP, Albanese B, Arrowsmith BJ, Botham M, Webster M, Krause J (2003) Sex-biased movement in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Oecologia 137:62-68
9. DeWitt TJ, Sih A, Wilson DS (1998) Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity. Trends Ecol Evol 13:77-81
10. Dosen LD, Montgomerie R (2004) Mate preferences by male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in relation to the risk of sperm competition. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 55:266-271
11. Dugatkin LA, Sargent RC (1994) Male-male association patterns and female proximity in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 35:141-145
12. Dussault GV, KramerDL (1981) Food and feeding behavior of the guppy, Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae). Can J Zool 59:684-701
13. Earley RL, Tinsley M, Dugatkin LA (2003) To see or not to see: does previewing a future opponent affect the contest behavior of green swordtail males (Xiphophorus helleri)? Naturwissenschaften 90:226-230
14. Emlen ST, Oring LW (1977) Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems. Science 197:215-223
15. Endler JA (1978) A predator's view of animal color patterns. Evol Biol 11:319-364
16. Endler JA (1987) Predation, light intensity and courtship behavior in Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae). Anim Behav 35:1376-1385
17. Endler JA (1995) Multiple-trait coevolution and environmental gradients in guppies. Trends Ecol Evol 10:22-29
18. Evans JP, Magurran AE (1999) Male mating behavior and sperm production characteristics under varying sperm competition risk in guppies. Anim Behav 58:1001-1006
19. Farr JA (1975) The role of predation in the evolution of social behavior of natural populations of the guppy, Poecilia reticulata (Pisces: Poeciliidae). Evolution 29:151-158
20. Farr JA (1989) Sexual selection and secondary sexual differentiation in poeciliids: determinants of male mating success and the evolution of female choice. In: Meffe GK, Snelson FF (eds) Ecology and evolution of livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp 91-123
21. Foster SA, Endler JA (1999) Thoughts on geographic variation in behavior. In: Foster SA, Endler JA (eds) Geographic variation in behavior. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 287-305
22. Fraser DF, Gilliam JF, Akkara JT, Albanese BW, Snider SB (2004) Night feeding by guppies under predator release: effects on growth and daytime courtship. Ecology 85:312-319
23. Gamble S, Lindholm AK, Endler JA, Brooks R (2003) Environmental variation an the maintenance of polymorphism: the effect of ambient light spectrum on mating behavior and sexual selection in guppies. Ecol Lett 6:463-472
24. Grether GF (2000) Carotenoid limitation and mate preference evolution: a test of the indicator hypothesis in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Evolution 54:1712-1724
25. Grether GF, Hudon J, Millie DF (1999) Carotenoid limitation of sexual coloration along an environmental gradient in guppies. Proc R Soc Lond B 266:1317-1322
26. Grether GF, Millie DF, Bryant MJ, Reznick DN, Mayea W (2001) Rain forest canopy cover, resource availability, and life history evolution in guppies. Ecology 82:1546-1559
27. Grether GF, Kolluru GR, Rodd FH, de la Cerda J, Shimazaki K (2005) Carotenoid availability affects the development of a colour-based mate preference and the sensory bias to which it is genetically linked. Proc R Soc Lond B 272:2181-2188
28. Griffiths SW (1996) Sex differences in the trade-off between feeding and mating in the guppy. J Fish Biol 48:891-898
29. Gross MR (1996) Alternative reproductive strategies and tactics: diversity within sexes. Trends Ecol Evol 11:92-98
30. Houde AE (1997) Sex, color, and mate choice in guppies. Princeton University Press, New Jersey
31. Houde AE, Endler JA (1990) Correlated evolution of female mating preferences and male color patterns in the guppy Poecilia reticulata. Science 248:1405-1408
32. Hughes KA, Rodd FH, Reznick DN (2005) Genetic and environmental effects on secondary sex traits in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). J Evol Biol 18:35-45
33. Jirotkul M (1999a) Operational sex ratio influences female preference and male-male competition in guppies. Anim Behav 58:287-294
34. Jirotkul M (1999b) Population density influences male-male competition in guppies. Anim Behav 58:1169-1175
35. Jirotkul M (2000) Male trait distribution determined alternative mating tactics in guppies. J Fish Biol 56:1427-1434
36. Kelly CD, Godin J-GJ (2001) Predation risk reduces male-male sexual competition in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 51:95-100
37. Kodric-Brown A (1992) Male dominance can enhance mating success in guppies. Anim Behav 44:165-167
38. Kodric-Brown A (1993) Female choice of multiple male criteria in guppies: interacting effects of dominance, coloration and courtship. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 32:415-420
39. Kolluru GR, Grether GF (2005) The effects of resource availability on alternative mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Behav Ecol 16:294-300
40. Kolluru GR, Grether GF, South SH, Dunlop E, Cardinali A, Liu L, Carapiet A (2006) The effects of carotenoid and food availability on resistance to a naturally occurring parasite (Gyrodactylus turnbulli) in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Biol J Linn Soc 89:301-309
41. Komers PE (1997) Behavioral plasticity in variable environments. Can J Zool 75:161-169
42. Lodé T, Holveck M-J, Lesbarreres D, Pagano A (2004) Sex-biased predation by polecats influences the mating system of frogs. Proc R Soc Lond B 271:S399-S401
43. Long KD, Rosenqvist G (1998) Changes in male guppy courting distance in response to a fluctuating light environment. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 44:77-83
44. Luyten PH, Liley NR (1991) Sexual selection and competitive mating success of male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) from four Trinidad populations. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 28:329-336
45. Magellan K, Pettersson LB, Magurran AE (2005) Quantifying male attractiveness and mating behavior through phenotypic size manipulation in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 58:366-374
46. Magurran AE, Seghers BH (1991) Variation in schooling and aggression amongst guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations in Trinidad. Behaviour 118:214-234
47. Magurran AE, Seghers BH (1994) Sexual conflict as a consequence of ecology: evidence from guppy, Poecilia reticulata, populations in Trinidad. Proc R Soc Lond B 225:31-36
48. Millar NP, Reznick DN, Kinnison MT, Hendry AP (2006) Disentangling the selective factors that act on male color in wild guppies. Oikos 113:1-12
49. Mills SC, Reynolds JD (2003) Operational sex ratio and alternative reproductive behaviors in the European bitterling, Rhodeus sericeus. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 54:98-104
50. Moczek AP, Emlen DJ (1999) Proximate determination of male horn dimorphism in the beetle Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). J Evol Biol 12:27-37
51. Pettersson LB, Ramnarine IW, Becher SA, Mahabir R, Magurran AE (2004) Sex ratio dynamics and fluctuating selection pressures in natural populations of the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 55:461-468
52. Plaistow S, Siva-Jothy MT (1996) Energetic constraints and male mate-securing tactics in the damselfly Calopteryx splendens xanthostoma (Charpentier). Proc R Soc Lond B 263:1233-1239
53. Price AC, Rodd FH (2006) The effect of social environment on male- male competition in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Ethology 112:22-32
54. Price TD, Qvarnstrom A, Irwin DE (2003) The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution. Proc R Soc Lond B 270:1433-1440
55. Quinn TP, Adkison MD, Ward MB (1996) Behavioral tactics of male sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) under varying operational sex ratios. Ethology 102:304-322
56. Reyer H-U, Fischer W, Steck P, Nabulon T, Kessler P (1998) Sexspecific nest defense in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) varies with badge size of males. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 42:93-99
57. Reynolds JD, Gross MR, Coombs J (1993) Environmental conditions and male morphology determine alternative mating behavior in Trinidadian guppies. Anim Behav 45:145-152
58. Reznick D, Butler MJ IV, Rodd H (2001) Life-history evolution in guppies. VII. The comparative ecology of high- and lowpredation environments. Am Nat 157:126-140
59. Rodd FH, Reznick DN (1991) Life-history evolution in guppies.3: the impact of prawn predation on guppy life histories. Oikos 62:13-19
60. Rodd FH, Sokolowski MB (1995) Complex origins of variation in the sexual behavior of male Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata: interactions between social environment, heredity, body size and age. Anim Behav 49:1139-1159
61. Rodd FH, Reznick DN, Sokolowski MB (1997) Phenotypic plasticity in the life history traits of guppies: responses to social environment. Ecology 78:419-433
62. Rotenberry JT, Wiens JA (1998) Foraging patch selection by shrubsteppe sparrows. Ecology 79:1160-1173
63. Shuster SM, Wade MJ (2003) Mating systems and strategies. Princeton University Press, Princeton
64. Tabachnick BG, Fidell LS (2001) Using multivariate statistics, 4th edn. Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA
65. Thompson DB (1999) Different spatial scales of natural selection and gene flow: the evolution of behavioral geographic variation and phenotypic plasticity. In: Foster SA, Endler JA (eds) Geographic variation in behavior. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 52-68
66. Templeton CN, Shriner WM (2004) Multiple selection pressures influence Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) antipredator behavior. Behav Ecol 4:673-678
67. Verhoeven KJF, Simonsen KL, McIntyre LM (2005) Implementing false discovery rate control: increasing your power. Oikos 108:643-647
68. Weitere M, Tautz D, Neumann D, Steinfartz S (2004) Adaptive divergence vs. environmental plasticity: tracing local genetic adaptation of metamorphosis traits in salamanders. Mol Ecol 13:1665-1677
69. West-Eberhard MJ (2003) Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford
70. Winge O (1937) Succession of broods in Lebistes. Nature 140:467
71. Zuk M, Rotenberry JT, Simmons LW (1998) Calling songs of field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) with and without phonotactic parasitoid infection. Evolution 52:166-171