Sex ratio, mating behaviour and wolbachia infections in a sheetweb spider

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 181-186

  Gunnarsson, Bengt ^a   Goodacre, Sara L ^b,c   Hewitt, Godfrey M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Araneae; Copulatory behaviour; Endosymbionts; Pityohyphantes phrygianus; Sex ratio variation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COPULATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PITYOHYPHANTES PHRYGIANUS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 69449094733     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01247.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Avilés L, McCormack J, Cutter A, Bukowski T. 2000. Precise highly female-biased sex ratios in a social spider. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 267 : 1445 1449.
2. Avilés L, Maddison W. 1991. When is the sex ratio biased in social spiders? Chromosome studies of embryos and male meiosis in Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 19 : 126 135.
3. Charlat S, Davies N, Roderick GK, Hurst GDD. 2007. Disrupting the timing of Wolbachia-induced male-killing. Biology Letters 3 : 154 156.
4. Charlat S, Hurst GD, Mercot H. 2003. Evolutionary consequences of Wolbachia infections. Trends in Genetics 19 : 217 223.
5. Davis MJ, Ying Z, Brunner BR, Pantoja A, Ferwerda FH. 1998. Rickettsial relative associated with Papaya bunchy top disease. Current Microbiology 26 : 80 84.
6. Dyson EA, Hurst GDD. 2004. Persistence of an extreme sex-ratio bias in a natural population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101 : 6520 6523.
7. Ebbert MA. 1993. Endosymbiotic sex ratio distorters in insects and mites. In : Wrensch DL, Ebbert MA, eds. Evolution and diversity of sex ratio in insects and mites. New York : Chapman and Hall, 150 191.
8. Eberhard WG. 1996. Female control: sexual selection by cryptic female choice. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press.
9. Elgar MA. 1998. Sperm competition and sexual selection in spiders and other arachnids. In : Birkhead TR, Møller AP, eds. Sperm competition and sexual selection. London : Academic Press, 759 779.
10. Fisher NI. 1993. Statistical analysis of circular data. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
11. Fisher RA. 1958. The genetical theory of natural selection, 2nd edn. New York : Dover.
12. Goodacre SL, Martin OY, Thomas CFG, Hewitt GM. 2006. Wolbachia and other endosymbiont infections in spiders. Molecular Ecology 15 : 517 527.
13. Gunnarsson B, Andersson A. 1992a. Skewed primary sex ratio in the solitary spider Pityohyphantes phrygianus. Evolution 46 : 841 845.
14. Gunnarsson B, Andersson A. 1992b. Chromosome variation in embryos of a solitary spider, Pityohyphantes phrygianus, with skewed sex ratio. Hereditas 117 : 85 91.
15. Gunnarsson B, Andersson A. 1996. Sex ratio variation in sheet-web spiders: options for female control? Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 263 : 1177 1182.
16. Gunnarsson B, Uhl G, Wallin K. 2004. Variable female mating positions and offspring sex ratio in the spider Pityohyphantes phrygianus (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 17 : 129 144.
17. Hedin MC, Maddison WP. 2001. A combined molecular approach to phylogeny of the jumping spider subfamily Dendryphantinae (Araneae: Salticidae). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 18 : 386 403.
18. Hurst L, Vollrath F. 1992. Sex-ratio adjustment in solitary and social spiders. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7 : 326 327.
19. Jeyaprakash A, Hoy MA. 2000. Long PCR improves Wolbachia DNA amplification: wsp sequences found in 76% of 63 arthropod species. Insect Molecular Biology 9 : 393 405.
20. Jiggins FM, Hurst GDD, von der Schulenberg JHD, Majerus MEN. 2001. Two male-killing Wolbachia strains coexist within a population of the butterfly Acraea encedon. Heredity 86 : 161 166.
21. Jiggins FM, Randerson JP, Hurst GDD, Majerus MEN. 2002. How can sex ratio distorters reach extreme prevalences? A natural population in which male-killing Wolbachia have near-perfect vertical transmission efficiency and are not suppressed. Evolution 56 : 2290 2295.
22. Kruuk LEB, Clutton-Brock TH, Albon SD, Pemberton JM, Guinness FE. 1999. Population density affects sex ratio variation in red deer. Nature 399 : 459 461.
23. Majerus MEN. 2003. Sex wars: genes, bacteria and biased sex ratios. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press.
24. Majerus MEN, von der Schulenburg JHG, Zakharov IA. 2000. Multiple causes of male-killing in a single sample of the two-spot ladybird, Adalia bipunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Moscow. Heredity 84 : 605 609.
25. SAS. 1998. StatView Reference. Cary, NC : SAS Institute.
26. von der Schulenburg JHG, Majerus TM, Dorzhu CM, Zakharov IA, Hurst GDD, Majerus ME. 2000. Evolution of male-killing Spiroplasma (Procaryotae: Mollicutes) inferred from ribosomal spacer sequences. General Applied Microbiology 46 : 95 98.
27. Snow LSE, Andrade MCB. 2005. Multiple sperm storage organs facilitate female control of paternity. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 272 : 1139 1144.
28. Stålhandske P, Gunnarsson B. 1996. Courtship behavior in the spider Pityohyphantes phrygianus (Linyphiidae, Araneae): do females discriminate injured males? Revue suisse de Zoologie, hors série 617 625.
29. Stevens L, Giordano R, Fialho RF. 2001. Evolution, systematics and ecology of Wolbachia infections in arthropods. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32 : 519 545.
30. Trivers RL, Willard DE. 1973. Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring. Science 179 : 90 92.
31. Uhl G, Gunnarsson B. 2001. Female genitalia of Pityohyphantes phrygianus, a spider with skewed sex ratio. Journal of Zoology 255 : 367 376.
32. Vala F, Egas M, Breeuwer JAJ, Sabelis MW. 2004. Wolbachia affects oviposition and mating behaviour in its spider mite host. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17 : 692 700.
33. Vala F, van Opijnen T, Breeuwer JAJ, Sabelis MW. 2003. Genetic conflicts over sex ratio: mite-endosymbiont interactions. American Naturalist 161 : 254 266.
34. Vollrath F. 1986. Eusociality and extraordinary sex ratios in the spider Anelosimus eximius (Araneae: Theridiidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 18 : 283 287.
35. Werren JH, Baldo L, Clark ME. 2008. Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology. Nature Reviews Microbiology 6 : 741 751.
36. Wrensch DA, Ebbert MA, eds. 1993. Evolution and diversity of sex ratio in insects and mites. New York : Chapman and Hall.
37. Zchori-Fein E, Perlman SJ. 2004. Distribution of the bacterial symbiont Cardinium in arthropods. Molecular Ecology 13 : 2009 2016.