Chronological vs. physiological age as determinants of mating decisions: Studies on female choice over lifespan in an acoustic moth

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 740-751

  Ligout, Séverine ^a   Munier, Damien ^a   Marquereau, Lucie ^a   Greenfield, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; LONGEVITY; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ACHROIA GRISELLA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863777034     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02064.x     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Alem, S. & Greenfield, M. D. 2010: Economics of mate choice at leks: do female waxmoths pay costs for indirect genetic benefits? Behav. Ecol. 21, 615-625.
2. Alem, S., Koselj, K., Siemers, B. M. & Greenfield, M. D. 2011: Bat predation and the evolution of leks in acoustic moths. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 65, 2105-2116.
3. Andersson, M. 1994: Sexual Selection. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
4. Andersson, M. & Simmons, L. W. 2006: Sexual selection and mate choice. Trends Ecol. Evol. 21, 296-302.
5. Anjos-Duarte, C. S., Costa, A. M. & Joachim-Bravo, I. S. 2011: Influence of female age on variation of mate choice behavior in Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae). J. Insect Behav. 24, 11-21.
6. Bercovitch, F. B., Loomis, C. P. & Rieches, R. G. 2009: Age-specific changes in reproductive effort and terminal investment in female Nile lechwe. J. Mammal. 90, 40-46.
7. Bonduriansky, R. & Brassil, C. E. 2002: Senescence: rapid and costly ageing in wild male flies. Nature 420, 377.
8. Brandt, L. S. E. & Greenfield, M. D. 2004: Condition-dependent traits and the capture of genetic variance in male advertisement song. J. Evol. Biol. 17, 821-828.
9. Clutton-Brock, T. H. 1984: Reproductive effort and terminal investment in iteroparous animals. Am. Nat. 123, 212-229.
10. Collier, T. J. & Coleman, P. D. 1991: Divergence of biological and chronological aging - evidence from rodent studies. Neurobiol. Aging 12, 685-693.
11. Descamps, S., Boutin, S., Berteaux, D. & Gaillard, J. M. 2007: Female red squirrels fit Williams' hypothesis of increasing reproductive effort with increasing age. J. Anim. Ecol. 76, 1192-1201.
12. Eberhard, W. G. 1996: Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
13. Ericsson, G., Wallin, K., Ball, J. P. & Broberg, M. 2001: Age-related reproductive effort and senescence in free-ranging moose, Alces alces Ecology 82, 1613-1620.
14. Gray, D. A. 1999: Intrinsic factors affecting female choice in house crickets: time cost, female age, nutritional condition, body size, and size-relative reproductive investment. J. Insect Behav. 12, 691-700.
15. Greenfield, M. D. & Coffelt, J. A. 1983: Reproductive behaviour of the lesser wax moth, Achroia grisella (Pyralidae: Galleriinae): signalling, pair formation, male interactions, and mate guarding. Behaviour 84, 287-315.
16. Greig, E. I. & Greenfield, M. D. 2004: Sexual selection and predator avoidance in an acoustic moth: discriminating females take fewer risks. Behaviour 141, 799-815.
17. Hebets, E. A., Wesson, J. & Shamble, P. S. 2008: Diet influences mate choice selectivity in adult female wolf spiders. Anim. Behav. 76, 355-363.
18. Isaac, J. L. & Johnson, C. N. 2005: Terminal reproductive effort in a marsupial. Biol. Lett. 1, 271-275.
19. Jang, Y. & Greenfield, M. D. 1996: Ultrasonic communication and sexual selection in wax moths: female choice based on energy and asynchrony of male signals. Anim. Behav. 51, 1095-1106.
20. Jang, Y. & Greenfield, M. D. 1998: Absolute versus relative measurements of sexual selection: assessing the contributions of ultrasonic signal characters to mate attraction in lesser wax moths, Achroia grisella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Evolution 52, 1383-1393.
21. Jang, Y., Collins, R. D. & Greenfield, M. D. 1997: Variation and repeatability of ultrasonic sexual advertisement signals in Achroia grisella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). J. Insect Behav. 10, 87-98.
22. Javoiš, J. & Tammaru, T. 2004: Reproductive decisions are sensitive to cues of life expectancy: the case of a moth. Anim. Behav. 68, 249-255.
23. Jennions, M. D. & Petrie, M. 1997: Variation in mate choice and mating preferences: a review of causes and consequences. Biol. Rev. 72, 283-327.
24. Jia, F.-Y., Greenfield, M. D. & Collins, R. D. 2001: Ultrasonic signal competition between male wax moths. J. Insect Behav. 14, 19-33.
25. Judge, K. A., Tran, K.-C. & Gwynne, D. T. 2010: The relative effects of mating status and age on the mating behaviour of female field crickets. Can. J. Zool. 88, 219-223.
26. Kodric-Brown, A. & Nicoletto, P. F. 2001: Age and experience affect female choice in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Am. Nat. 157, 316-323.
27. Kuriwada, T. & Kasuya, E. 2006: Female responsiveness is negatively correlated with life expectancy in Meloimorpha japonica (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 99, 1244-1247.
28. Lafaille, M., Bimbard, G. & Greenfield, M. D. 2010: Risk trading in mating behavior: forgoing anti-predator responses reduces the likelihood of missing terminal mating opportunities. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 64, 1485-1494.
29. Limousin, D. & Greenfield, M. D. 2009: Evaluation of amplitude in male song: female waxmoths respond to fortissimo notes. J. Exp. Biol. 212, 4091-4100.
30. Lynch, K. S., Rand, A. S. & Ryan, M. J. 2005: Plasticity in female mate choice associated with changing reproductive states. Anim. Behav. 69, 689-699.
31. Mack, P. D., Priest, N. K. & Promislow, D. E. L. 2003: Female age and sperm competition: last-male precedence declines as female age increases. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270, 159-165.
32. Mautz, B. S. & Sakaluk, S. K. 2008: The effects of age and previous mating experience on pre- and post-copulatory mate choice in female house crickets (Acheta domesticus L.). J. Insect Behav. 21, 203-212.
33. Mitnitski, A., MacKnight, C. & Rockwood, K. 2002: Modeling of aging as a process of accumulation of deficits. Gerontologist 42 (1, special issue), 4.
34. Moore, P. J. & Moore, A. J. 2001: Reproductive aging and mating: the ticking of the biological clock in female cockroaches. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98, 9171-9176.
35. Pfennig, K. S. & Tinsley, R. C. 2002: Different mate preferences by parasitized and unparasitized females potentially reduces sexual selection. J. Evol. Biol. 15, 399-406.
36. Prosser, M. R., Murray, A. M. & Cade, W. H. 1997: The influence of female age on phonotaxis during single and multiple song presentations in the field cricket, Gryllus integer (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). J. Insect Behav. 10, 437-449.
37. Real, L. 1990: Search theory and mate choice. 1. models for single-sex discrimination. Am. Nat. 136, 376-404.
38. Ritchie, M. G. 1996: The shape of female mating preferences. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93, 14628-14631.
39. Roff, D. A. 1992: The Evolution of Life Histories. Theory and Analysis. Chapman & Hall, New York.
40. Spangler, H. G., Greenfield, M. D. & Takessian, A. 1984: Ultrasonic mate calling in the lesser wax moth. Physiol. Entomol. 9, 87-95.
41. Stearns, S. C. 1992: The Evolution of Life-histories. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, U.K.