The adaptive advantage of prolonged mating: a test of alternative hypotheses

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 481-485

  Linn, Christopher D ^a   Molina, Yamile ^a,b   Difatta, Jamie ^a   Christenson, Terry E ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

mate guarding; mating; Nephila clavipes; sperm competition; spider

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATE GUARDING; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SPERM COMPETITION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; NEPHILA CLAVIPES; QUADRULA AUREA;

EID: 34548633699     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Andrade M.C.B., and Banta E.M. Value of male remating and functional sterility in redback spiders. Animal Behaviour 63 (2002) 857-870
2. Arnqvist G., and Nilsson T. The evolution of polyandry: multiple mating and female fitness in insects. Animal Behaviour 60 (2000) 145-164
3. Austad S.N. First male sperm priority in the bowl and doily spider, Frontinella pyrametela (Walkenaer). Evolution 36 (1982) 777-785
4. Austad S.N. Evolution of sperm priority patterns in spiders. In: Smith R.L. (Ed). Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems (1984), Academic Press, New York 223-249
5. Berendonck B., and Greven H. Morphology of female and male genitalia in Latrodectus revivensis Shulov, 1948 (Araneae, Theridiidae) with regard to sperm priority patterns. In: Toft S., and Sharff N. (Eds). European Arachnology 2000 (2002), Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, Denmark 157-167
6. Birkhead T.R. Promiscuity (2000), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
7. Birkhead T.R., and Møller A.P. Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection (1998), Academic Press, San Diego
8. Brown S.G. Mating behavior of the golden orb-weaving spider, Nephila clavipes: II. Sperm capacitation, sperm competition, and fecundity. Journal of Comparative Psychology 99 (1985) 167-175
9. Brown S., Hill E.M., Goist K.C., Wenzl P.A., and Christenson T. Ecological and seasonal variation in a free-moving population of the golden-web spider, Nephila clavipes. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6 (1985) 313-319
10. Bukowski T.C., and Christenson T.E. Determinants of sperm release and storage in a spiny orb-weaving spider. Animal Behaviour 53 (1997) 381-395
11. Christenson T. Sperm depletion in the orb-weaving spider Nephila clavipes. Journal of Arachnology 17 (1989) 115-118
12. Christenson T. Natural selection and reproduction: a study of the golden orb-weaving spider, Nephila clavipes. In: Dewsbury D. (Ed). Contemporary Issues in Comparative Psychology (1990), Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts 149-174
13. Christenson T.E., and Cohn J. Male advantage for egg fertilization in the golden orb-weaving spider, Nephila clavipes. Journal of Comparative Psychology 102 (1989) 312-318
14. Christenson T.E., and Goist K.C. Costs and benefits of male-male competition in the orb weaving spider, Nephila clavipes. Behavioral Ecolology and Sociobiology 5 (1979) 87-92
15. Christenson T.E., and Wenzl P.A. Egg laying of the golden silk spider, Nephila clavipes (Araneae, Araneidae): functional analysis of the egg sac. Animal Behaviour 28 (1980) 1110-1118
16. Christenson T.E., Brown S.G., Wenzl P.A., Hill E.M., and Goist K.C. Mating behavior of the golden-orb-weaving spider, Nephila clavipes: I. Female receptivity and male courtship. Journal of Comparative Psychology 99 (1985) 160-166
17. Cohn J. Is it the size that counts? Palp morphology, sperm storage, and egg hatching frequency in Nephila clavipes (Araneae: Araneidae). Journal of Arachnology 18 (1990) 59-71
18. Cohn J., Balding F.V., and Christenson T.E. In defense of Nephila clavipes: postmate guarding by the male golden orb-weaving spider. Journal of Comparative Psychology 102 (1988) 319-325
19. Danielson-François, A. M. 2002. Causes of variation in paternity: differential sperm release versus stratification in two orb-weaving spiders. Ph.D. thesis, University of Arizona.
20. Eberhard W.G. Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female choice (1996), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
21. Eberhard W.G. Why study spider sex: special traits of spiders facilitate studies of sperm competition and cryptic female choice. Journal of Arachnology 32 (2004) 545-556
22. Eberhard W.G. Male-female conflict and genitalia: failure to confirm predictions in insects and spiders. Biological Reviews 79 (2004) 121-186
23. Elgar M.A. The duration of copulation in spiders: comparative patterns. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 52 (1995) 1-11
24. Elgar M.A. Sperm competition and sexual selection in spiders and other arachnids. In: Birkhead T.R., and Møller A.P. (Eds). Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection in Spiders and Other Arachnids (1998), Academic Press, San Diego 307-339
25. Elgar M.A., Schneider J.M., and Heberstein M.E. Female control of paternity in the sexually cannibalistic spider Argiope keyserlingi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 267 (2000) 2439-2443
26. Fromhage L., and Schneider J.M. Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider. Behavioral Ecology 16 (2004) 377-382
27. Huber B.A. Sexual selection research on spiders: progress and biases. Biological Reviews 8 (2005) 363-385
28. Jackson R.R. The mating strategy of Phidippus johnsoni (Araneae: Salticidae): II. Sperm competition and the function of copulation. Journal of Arachnology 8 (1980) 217-240
29. Laird G., Gwynne D.T., and Andrade M.C.B. Extreme repeated mating as a counter-adaptation to sex conflict?. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Supplement 271 (2004) S402-S404
30. Linn, C. D. 2006. Mate guarding intensity in relation to potential sperm competition in the orb weaving spider Nephila clavipes (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Ph.D. thesis, Tulane University.
31. Masumoto T. The effect of the copulatory plug in the funnel-web spider Agelena limbata (Araneae: Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology 21 (1993) 55-59
32. Myers L., and Christenson T.E. Transition from predatory juvenile male to mate-searching adult in the orb-weaving spider Nephila clavipes. Journal of Arachnology 16 (1988) 260-262
33. Parker G.A. Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects. Biological Reviews 45 (1970) 260-262
34. Schneider J.M., and Elgar M.A. Sexual cannibalism and sperm competition in the golden orb-web spider Nephila plumipes (Araneoidea): female and male perspectives. Behavioral Ecology 12 (2000) 547-552
35. Schneider J.M., and Lubin Y. Infanticidal male eresid spiders. Nature 381 (1996) 655-656
36. Schneider J.M., Herberstein M.E., De Crespigny F.C., Ramamurthy S., and Elgar M.A. Sperm competition and small size advantage for males of the golden orb-web spider Nephila edulis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13 (2000) 939-946
37. Schult J., and Sellenschlo U. Morphologie und Funktion der Genitalstrukturen bei Nephila (Arach., Aran., Araneidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 80 (1983) 221-230
38. Simmons L.W. Sperm Competition and Its Evolutionary Consequences in the Insects (2001), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
39. Snow L.S.E., and Andrade M.C.B. Pattern of sperm transfer in redback spiders: implications for sperm competition and male sacrifice. Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 785-792
40. Suter R.B., and Parkhill V.S. Fitness consequences of prolonged copulation in the bowl and doily spider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 26 (1990) 369-373
41. Uhl G., and Vollrath F. Genital morphology of Nephila edulis: implications for sperm competition in spiders. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76 (1998) 39-47
42. Vollrath F. Male body size and fitness in the web-building spider Nephila clavipes. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 53 (1980) 61-78
43. Watson P.J. Multiple paternity as genetic bet-hedging in female sierra dome spider Linyphia litigiosa Keyserling (Linyphiidae). Animal Behaviour 41 (1991) 343-360
44. Watson P.J., and Lighton J.R.B. Sexual selection and the energetics of copulatory courtship in the sierra dome spider, Linyphia litigiosa. Animal Behaviour 48 (1994) 615-626
45. Wenzl, P. A. 1980. Mating behavior and egg production in the orb weaving spider, Nephila clavipes. M.S. thesis, Tulane University.