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Entomology
Samuel Boff
Summary: Behavioural courtship display and male size are important factors in mate selection for females. In the case of the large-headed resin bee, females can assess male quality and choose a suitable mate. Male mating behaviour involves vibration, wing fanning, and lifting the female's abdomen for copulation. Female preference for a male partner is density dependent and mating success is influenced by male size. Female response to mounting is independent of the number of mating partners and does not affect the mating process. These findings suggest that female choice plays a significant role in mating success in the large-headed resin bee.
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Behavioral Sciences
David Canal, Monika Jablonszky, Katalin Krenhardt, Gabor Marko, Gergely Nagy, Eszter Szasz, Janos Torok, Sandor Zsebok, Laszlo Zsolt Garamszegi
Summary: This study revealed the relative importance of male and female identity in male courtship behavior, as well as the increased male responsiveness to stimulus females as the breeding season progressed. Furthermore, the results suggest that invitation latency is a consistent courtship attribute in males that can be adjusted plastically according to perceived female quality and environmental conditions.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nancy Natividad Salmeron-Muniz, Rene Arzuffi, Norma Robledo-Quintos, Alfredo Jimenez-Perez
Summary: This study provides insights into the precopulatory mating behavior of the papaya fruit fly, Anastrepha curvicauda, and how intrasexual selection affects mate selection. Dominant males were significantly preferred by females in choice experiments, and the presence of rival males altered courting behavior and led to agonistic interactions among males before and during mating.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Entomology
Antonio Felicioli, Simona Sagona, Francesca Coppola, Chiara Benedetta Boni, Mauro Pinzauti
Summary: This study describes the mating behavior of bees and analyzes its sequence using Markov analysis. The results show that there are repeated, stereotyped, and regular sequences of behavioral units, including short and long copulations. The findings support the hypothesis that aging could affect the reproductive success of mason bees.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
David Xochipiltecatl, Joaquin Baixeras, Carlos R. Cordero
Summary: Research on monandrous butterflies found that females lack the necessary apparatus to mechanically digest spermatophores, resulting in a constant state of sexual unreceptivity. The evolution of this mechanism deserves further investigation.
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Behavioral Sciences
Matthew J. Fuxjager, Leonida Fusani, Barney A. Schlinger
Summary: This passage discusses the fascination of biologists with the elaborate courtship displays in the animal kingdom, as well as the specialized neural, sensory and motor systems involved in courtship behavior evolution. It also highlights the androgen-dependent neuromuscular and metabolic specializations in male golden-collared manakins for elaborate courtship routines and evolutionary exaggeration, and how physiological specializations can create trade-offs and influence courtship evolution.
Review
Entomology
Meena Yadav, Ahmad Pervez
Summary: The sexual activities of predaceous ladybirds involve complex interactions, including pre-mating, mating, and post-mating behaviors. It includes mate-recognition, mate-choice, and mating refusals. Sexual selection is driven by mate choice, asymmetrical sexual maturity, body size differences, and post-copulatory female mating resistance. Factors such as food, age, and multiple mating play important roles in increasing fecundity and optimizing the augmentation of ladybirds with biocontrol potential.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TROPICAL INSECT SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Agronomy
Xin-lian Li, Dou-dou Li, Xin-yan Cai, Dai-feng Cheng, Yong-yue Lu
Summary: This review summarizes the existing studies on the reproductive behavior of Tephritidae, particularly regarding the genes and external factors associated with courtship, mating, and oviposition. It contributes significantly to the integrated control of fruit flies.
PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
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Ecology
Diego Solano-Brenes, Luiz Ernesto Costa-Schmidt, Maria Jose Albo, Glauco Machado
Summary: We provide experimental evidence that male gift-giving spiders exhibit positive differential allocation in the size of the nutritious gift, duration of pre-copulatory courtship, and duration of pedipalp insertions. This positive differential allocation is likely associated with the benefits of copulating with females in good body condition, resulting in faster oviposition and higher fecundity. Our findings suggest that the hypothesis of differential allocation also applies to species with a scramble competition mating system, where males invest heavily in nuptial gift construction but not in parental care.
BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Ecology
Liam R. Dougherty
Summary: Animal sexual signalling behavior is generally honest and ability-based, with individuals investing more in behavioral signaling when in good condition. However, there is also some impact of needs-based signaling in certain situations. Individual state influences signaling effort, with individuals in good condition tending to invest more in signaling behavior.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Laura L. Dean, Hannah R. Dunstan, Amelia Reddish, Andrew D. C. MacColl
Summary: Ecological divergence in mating characteristics, particularly nesting microhabitat, may be more important than direct mate choice in maintaining reproductive isolation in stickleback species pairs.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Ecology
J. C. Blanco, G. Palomero, F. Ballesteros, J. Lopez-Bao
Summary: This study reports four observations of courtship and copulations of brown bears in late August and September in the Cantabrian Mountains of northwestern Spain in 2011, 2019, and 2021. These cases extend the known dates on copulations in Europe and shed light on the possibility of late mating in brown bears. Three of the courtship cases occurred in areas with a concentrated food source, attracting a large number of bears for a few weeks.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Peyton A. Rather, Abigail E. Herzog, David A. Ernst, Erica L. Westerman
Summary: The study found that social experience can influence male mate preference in the butterfly Heliconius melpomene, which has implications for the speciation of butterfly species.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Filipa M. D. Paciencia, Idrissa S. Chuma, Iddi F. Lipende, Sascha Knauf, Dietmar Zinner
Summary: Pathogens have various impacts on primate sociality and reproduction, and this study found that post-copulatory behavior in female baboons was not affected by the genital health status of males.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Naomi L. Zweerus, Michiel van Wijk, Coby Schal, Astrid T. Groot
Summary: The evolution of sexual signals is influenced by whether one or both sexes engage in mate choice. In the case of the noctuid moth Chloridea virescens, both males and females emit sex-specific pheromones, but females tend to choose larger males for mating. Female mate choice in this moth species is not influenced by male pheromones, and females use behavior and tactile stimuli to make decisions during courtship.