Could male tergal secretions be considered as a nuptial gift in the Madeira cockroach?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 451-460

  Mondet, Celine ^a   Abed Vieillard, Dehbia ^a   Gautier, Patrick ^b   Farine, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

chase away sexual selection model; cockroach; Leucophaea maderae; mating effort hypothesis; nuptial gift; paternal investment hypothesis; tergal gland secretion

Indexed keywords

COCKROACH; COPULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; MATING SUCCESS; NUPTIAL GIFT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

BLATTARIA; HEXAPODA; LEUCOPHAEA MADERAE;

EID: 38649103502     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.025     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Andersson M. Sexual Selection (1994), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
2. Arnqvist G., and Nilsson T. The evolution of polyandry: multiple mating and female fitness in insects. Animal Behaviour 60 (2000) 145-164
3. Arnqvist G., and Rowe L. Sexual Conflict (2005), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
4. Bateson P. Mate Choice (1983), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
5. Boggs C.L. Male nuptial gifts: phenotypic consequences and evolutionary implications. In: Leather S.R., and Hardie J. (Eds). Insect Reproduction (1995), CRC Press, New York 215-242
6. Brossut R. Allomonal secretions in cockroaches. Journal of Chemical Ecology 9 (1983) 143-158
7. Brossut R., and Roth L.M. Tergal modifications associated with abdominal glandular cells in the Blattaria. Journal of Morphology 151 (1977) 259-297
8. Brossut R., and Sreng L. L'univers chimique des Blattes. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 90 (1985) 1266-1280
9. Brossut R., Dubois P., Rigaud J., and Sreng L. Etude biochimique de la sécrétion des glandes tergales des Blattaria. Insect Biochemistry 5 (1975) 719-732
10. Bussière L.F., Basit H.A., and Gwynne D.T. Preferred males are not always good providers: female choice and male investment in tree crickets. Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 223-231
11. Choe J.C. Courtship feeding and repeated mating in Zorotypus barberi (Insecta: Zoraptera). Animal Behaviour 49 (1995) 1511-1520
12. Cornwell P.B. The Cockroach. Vol. 1: a Laboratory Insect and an Industrial Pest (1968), Rentokil Library, London
13. Eisner T., Smedley S.R., Young D.K., Eisner M., Roach B., and Meinwald J. Chemical basis of courtship in a beetle (Neopyrochroa flabellata): cantharidin as 'nuptial gift'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 93 (1996) 6499-6503
14. Eisner T., Smedley S.R., Young D.K., Eisner M., Roach B., and Meinwald J. Chemical basis of courtship in a beetle (Neopyrochroa flabellata): cantharidin as precopulatory 'enticing' agent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 93 (1996) 6494-6498
15. Engelmann F. Hormonal control of mating behaviour in an insect. Experientia 16 (1960) 69-70
16. Engelmann F. Mechanisms controlling reproduction in two viviparous cockroaches (Blattaria). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 89 (1960) 516-536
17. Engelmann F. The Physiology of Insect Reproduction (1970), Pergamon, Oxford
18. Engelmann F., and Rau I. A correlation between feeding and the sexual cycle of Leucophaea maderae (Blattaria). Journal of Insect Physiology 11 (1965) 53-64
19. Farine J.P., Sirugue D., Abed-Vieillard D., Everaerts C., Le Queré J.L., Bonnard O., and Brossut R. The male abdominal glands of Leucophaea maderae (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae): chemical identification of the volatile secretion and sex pheromone function. Journal of Chemical Ecology 33 (2007) 405-415
20. Grandcolas P. The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74 (1996) 508-527
21. Gwynne D.T. Male mating effort, confidence of paternity and insect sperm competition. In: Smith R.L. (Ed). Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems (1984), Academic Press, Orlando, Florida 117-149
22. Gwynne D.T. Reply to: stepfathers in insects and their pseudo-parental investment. Ethology 71 (1986) 74-77
23. Holland B., and Rice W.R. Perspective: chase-away sexual selection: antagonistic seduction versus resistance. Evolution 52 (1998) 1-7
24. Ivy T.M., Johnson J.C., and Sakaluk S.K. Hydration benefits to courtship feeding in crickets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 266 (1999) 1523-1527
25. Korchi A., Farine J.P., and Brossut R. Characterization of two male-specific polypeptides in the tergal glands secretions of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 28 (1998) 113-120
26. Kugimiya S., Nishida R., Kuwahara Y., and Sakuma M. Phospholipid composition and pheromonal activity of nuptial secretion of the male German cockroach, Blattella germanica. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 104 (2002) 337-344
27. Kugimiya S., Nishida R., Sakuma M., and Kuwahara Y. Nutritional phagostimulants function as male courtship pheromone in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica. Chemoecology 13 (2003) 169-175
28. McKittrick F.A. Evolutionary Studies of Cockroaches (1964), New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York
29. Maynard-Smith J. Honest signaling: the Philip Sydney game. Animal Behaviour 5 (1991) 1034-1035
30. Mullins D.E., and Keil C.B. Paternal investment of urates in cockroaches. Nature 283 (1980) 567-569
31. Mullins D.E., Keil C.B., and White R.H. Maternal and paternal nitrogen investment in Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Journal of Experimental Biology 162 (1992) 55-72
32. Nojima S., Sakuma M., Nishida R., and Kuwahara Y. A glandular gift in the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae): the courtship feeding of a female on secretions from male tergal glands. Journal of Insect Behavior 12 (1999) 627-640
33. Nojima S., Nishida R., and Kuwahara Y. Nuptial feeding stimulants: a male courtship pheromone of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae). Naturwissenschaften 86 (1999) 193-196
34. Parker G.A. Sexual selection and sexual conflict. In: Blum M.S., and Blum N.A. (Eds). Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition (1979), Academic Press, New York 123-166
35. Parker G.A. Sexual conflict over mating and fertilization: an overview. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 361 (2006) 235-259
36. Pomiankowski A. The evolution of female mate preference for male genetic quality. Oxford Survey of Evolutionary Biology 5 (1988) 136-184
37. Rice W.R., and Holland B. Reply to comments on the chase-away model of sexual selection. Evolution 53 (1999) 302-306
38. Roth L.M. The evolution of male tergal glands in the Blattaria. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 62 (1969) 176-208
39. Roth L.M., and Dateo G.P. Uric acid in the reproductive system of males of the cockroach Blattella germanica. Science 146 (1964) 782-784
40. Roth L.M., and Dateo G.P. Uric acid storage and excretion by accessory sex glands of male cockroaches. Journal of Insect Physiology 11 (1965) 1023-1029
41. Roth L.M., and Willis E.R. A study of cockroach behavior. American Midland Naturalist 47 (1952) 66-129
42. Roth L.M., and Willis E.R. The Reproduction of Cockroaches (1954), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
43. Sakaluk S.K. Is courtship feeding by male insects paternal investment?. Ethology 73 (1986) 161-166
44. Sakaluk S.K., Avery R.L., and Weddle C.B. Cryptic sexual conflict in gift-giving insects: chasing the chase-away. American Naturalist 167 (2006) 94-104
45. Schal C., and Bell W.J. Ecological correlates of paternal investment of urates in a tropical cockroach. Science 218 (1982) 170-173
46. Simmons L.W., and Parker G.A. Nuptial feeding in insects: mating effort versus paternal investment. Ethology 81 (1989) 332-343
47. Sirugue, D. 1992. Comportement sexuel et hiérarchie chez Leucophaea maderae et Nauphoeta cinerae (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae). Ph.D. thesis, University of Burgundy, France.
48. Sreng L. Morphology of the sternal and tergal glands producing the sexual pheromones and the aphrodisiacs among the cockroaches of the subfamily Oxyhaloinae. Journal of Morphology 182 (1984) 279-294
49. Sreng L. Cockroach mating behaviors, sex pheromones, and abdominal glands (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 6 (1993) 715-735
50. Thornhill R. Sexual selection and paternal investment in insects. American Naturalist 110 (1976) 153-163
51. Thornhill R., and Alcock J. The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems (1983), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
52. Trivers R.L. Parental investment and sexual selection. In: Campbell B. (Ed). Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man, 1871-1971 (1972), Aldine, Chicago, Illinois 136-179
53. Vahed K. The function of nuptial feeding in insects: a review of empirical studies. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 73 (1998) 43-78
54. Vahed K. All that glisters is not gold: sensory bias, sexual conflict and nuptial feeding in insects and spiders. Ethology 113 (2007) 105-127
55. Vahed K., and Gilbert F.S. No effect of nuptial gift consumption on female reproductive output in the bushcricket Leptophyes laticauda Friv. Ecological Entomology 22 (1997) 479-482
56. Vanacker D., Hendrickx F., Maes L., Verraes P., and Maelfait J.P. Can multiple mating compensate for slower development and shorter adult life in a male dimorphic dwarf spider?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82 (2004) 269-273
57. Wickler W. Stepfathers in insects and their pseudo-parental investment. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 69 (1985) 72-78
58. Zeh D.W., and Smith R.L. Paternal investment by terrestrial arthropods. American Zoologist 25 (1985) 785-805