The group-level consequences of sexual conflict in multigroup populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Eldakar, Omar Tonsi ^a   Gallup, Andrew C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUARIUS REMIGIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HATCHING; INSECT; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; MULTIGROUP POPULATION; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; CONFLICT;

GERRIDAE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 80055042009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026451     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Hanski I, (1999) Metapopulation Ecology. New York Oxford University Press.
2. Wilson DS, Wilson EO, (2007) Rethinking the theoretical foundation of sociobiology. Q Rev Biol 82: 327-348.
3. Hardin G, (1968) The tragedy of the commons. Science 162: 1243-1248.
4. Rankin DJ, Bargum K, Kokko H, (2007) The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology. Trends Ecol Evol 22: 643-651.
5. Rankin DJ, Kokko H, (2006) Sex, death and tragedy. Trends Ecol Evol 21: 225-226.
6. Eldakar OT, Dlugos MJ, Pepper JW, Wilson DS, (2009) Population structure mediates sexual conflict in water striders. Science 326: 816.
7. Eldakar OT, Dlugos MJ, Wilcox RS, Wilson DS, (2009) Aggressive mating as a tragedy of the commons in the water strider Aquarius remigis. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 64: 25-33.
8. Eldakar OT, Wilson DS, Dlugos MJ, Pepper JW, (2010) The role of multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual conflict in the water strider Aquarius remigis. Evolution 64: 3183-3189.
9. Chapman T, Arnqvist G, Bangham J, Rowe L, (2003) Sexual conflict. Trends Ecol Evol 18: 41-47.
10. Arnqvist G, Rowe L, (2005) Sexual Conflict. Princeton Princeton University Press.
11. Wigby S, Chapman T, (2005) Sex peptide causes mating costs in female Drosophila melanogaster. Curr Biol 15: 316-321.
12. Magurran A, Nowak M, (1991) Another battle of the sexes: the consequences of sexual asymmetry in mating costs and predation risk in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Proc R Soc B 246: 31-38.
13. Magurran A, Seghers B, (1994) A cost of sexual harassment in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Proc R Soc B 258: 89-92.
14. Le Galliard JF, Fitze PS, Ferriere R, Clobert J, (2005) Sex ratio bias, male aggression, and population collapse in lizards. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102: 18231-18236.
15. Bauer S, Samietz J, Berger U, (2004) Sexual harassment in heterogeneous landscapes can mediate population regulation in a grasshopper. Behav Ecol 16: 239-246.
16. Sih A, Watters J, (2005) The mix matters: behavioral types and group dynamics in water striders. Behaviour 142: 1423-1437.
17. Smuts BBB, Smuts RW, (1993) Male Aggression and sexual coercion of females in nonhuman primates and other mammals: evidence and theoretical implications. In: Slater PJB, Rosenblatt JS, Milinski M, Snowdon CT, editors. Advances in the Study of Behavior Vol.22 22 New York Academic Press: 1-63.
18. Pepper JW, Smuts BBB, (2002) A mechanism for the evolution of altruism among non-kin: positive assortment through environmental feedback. Am Nat 160: 205-213.
19. Aktipis CA, (2004) Know when to walk away: contingent movement and the evolution of cooperation. J Theor Biol 231: 249-260.
20. Pepper JW, (2007) Simple models of assortment through environmental feedback. Artificial Life 13: 1-9.
21. Eldakar OT, Dlugos MJ, Holt GP, Wilson DS, Pepper JW, (2010) Population structure influences sexual conflict in wild populations of water striders. Behaviour 147: 1615-1631.
22. Krupa JJ, Sih A, (1993) Experimental studies on water strider mating dynamics: spatial variation in density and sex ratio. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 33: 107-120.
23. Blanckenhorn W, (1991) Fitness consequences of foraging success in water striders (Gerris remigis; Heteroptera: Gerridae). Behav Ecol 2: 46-55.
24. Blanckenhorn WU, Perner D, (1994) Heritability and repeatability of behavioral attributes affecting foraging success and fitness in water striders. Anim Beh 48: 169-176.
25. Wilcox RS, Ruckdeschel R, (1982) Food threshold territoriality in a water strider (Gerris remigis). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 11: 85-90.
26. Heisler IL, Damuth J, (1987) A method for analyzing selection in hierarchically structured populations. Am Nat 130: 582-602.
27. Goodnight CJ, Schwartz JM, Stevens L, (1992) Contextual analysis of models of group selection, soft selection, hard selection, and the evolution of altruism. Am Nat 140: 743-761.
28. Okasha S, (2006) Evolution and the Levels of Selection. New York Oxford University Press.
29. Price GR, (1970) Selection and covariance. Nature 227: 520-521.
30. Price GR, (1972) Extension of covariance selection mathematics. Ann Hum Genet 35: 485-490.
31. Rankin DJ, López-Sepulcre A, (2005) Can adaptation lead to extinction? Oikos 111: 616-619.
32. Spence JR, Carcamo HA, (1991) Effects of cannibalism and intraguild predation on pondskaters (Gerridae). Oikos 62: 333-341.
33. Spence JR, Carcamo HA, (1994) Kin discrimination and cannibalism in water Striders (Heteroptera: Gerridae): another look. Oikos 70: 412-416.
34. Spence JR, Anderson NM, (1994) Biology of water striders: interactions between systematics and ecology. Ann Rev Entomol 39: 101-128.
35. Kokko H, Brooks R, (2003) Sexy to die for? Sexual selection and the risk of extinction. Annales Zoologici Fennici 40: 207-219.
36. Williams GC, (1966) Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought. Princeton Princeton University Press.
37. Wade MJ, McCauley DE, (1980) Group selection: the phenotypic and genotypic differ-entiation of small populations. Evolution 34: 799-812.
38. Wade MJ, McCauley DE, (1984) Group selection: the interaction of local deme size and migration in the differentiation of small populations. Evolution 38: 1047-1058.
39. Darden SK, Croft DP, (2008) Male harassment drives females to alter habitat use and leads to segregation of the sexes. Biol Lett 4: 449-451.
40. Turlure C, Van Dyck H, (2009) On the consequences of aggressive male mate-locating behaviour and micro-climate for female host plant use in the butterfly Lycaena hippothoe. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 64: 1-11.
41. Rankin DJ, (2007) Resolving the tragedy of the commons: the feedback between intraspecific conflict and population density. J Evol Biol 20: 173-180.