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The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection
Males of the papaya fruit fly, Anastrepha curvicauda Gerstaecker (former Toxotrypana curvicauda), defend a papaya fruit from rivals and males release their sex pheromone to attract and mate with females and offer them an oviposition site. While some aspects of the biology of A. curvicauda are known,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7973723/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33737687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85823-0 |
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author | Salmerón-Muñiz, Nancy Natividad Arzuffi, René Robledo-Quintos, Norma Jiménez-Pérez, Alfredo |
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description | Males of the papaya fruit fly, Anastrepha curvicauda Gerstaecker (former Toxotrypana curvicauda), defend a papaya fruit from rivals and males release their sex pheromone to attract and mate with females and offer them an oviposition site. While some aspects of the biology of A. curvicauda are known, such as its reproductive biology, its sex pheromone, and host selection, there is currently no information on the species mate selection process. This paper describes the precopulatory mating behavior of A. curvicauda and elucidates how intrasexual selection affects the mate selection process. We studied the precopulatory mating behavior of dominant and subordinate males and ethograms were devised. The effect of hierarchy was studied in non-choice and choice experiments. Male’s repertoire includes 15 behavioral elements, 12 precopulatory, one mating, and two postcopulatory (tandem and encounter). In non-choice experiments, dominant and subordinate males were accepted by females, but when females had the opportunity to choose among males, dominant males were significantly preferred over subordinate ones. The presence of a rival male modified the courting behavior of males and agonistic behavior among males was observed before and during mating. |
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spelling | pubmed-79737232021-03-19 The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection Salmerón-Muñiz, Nancy Natividad Arzuffi, René Robledo-Quintos, Norma Jiménez-Pérez, Alfredo Sci Rep Article Males of the papaya fruit fly, Anastrepha curvicauda Gerstaecker (former Toxotrypana curvicauda), defend a papaya fruit from rivals and males release their sex pheromone to attract and mate with females and offer them an oviposition site. While some aspects of the biology of A. curvicauda are known, such as its reproductive biology, its sex pheromone, and host selection, there is currently no information on the species mate selection process. This paper describes the precopulatory mating behavior of A. curvicauda and elucidates how intrasexual selection affects the mate selection process. We studied the precopulatory mating behavior of dominant and subordinate males and ethograms were devised. The effect of hierarchy was studied in non-choice and choice experiments. Male’s repertoire includes 15 behavioral elements, 12 precopulatory, one mating, and two postcopulatory (tandem and encounter). In non-choice experiments, dominant and subordinate males were accepted by females, but when females had the opportunity to choose among males, dominant males were significantly preferred over subordinate ones. The presence of a rival male modified the courting behavior of males and agonistic behavior among males was observed before and during mating. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7973723/ /pubmed/33737687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85823-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Salmerón-Muñiz, Nancy Natividad Arzuffi, René Robledo-Quintos, Norma Jiménez-Pérez, Alfredo The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection |
title | The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection |
title_full | The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection |
title_fullStr | The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection |
title_full_unstemmed | The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection |
title_short | The influence of male dominance in female Anastrepha curvicauda mate selection |
title_sort | influence of male dominance in female anastrepha curvicauda mate selection |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7973723/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33737687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85823-0 |
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