Regular ArticlesPath analysis and the relative importance of male–female conflict, female choice and male–male competition in water striders
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2021, Saudi Journal of Biological SciencesCitation Excerpt :Therefore, we may expect some sort of female’s choice at this phase: it is possible that the female uses the rejection response as an exercise of mate’s assessment . Mating systems of some insects such as flies and water striders involve a premating vigorous struggle that results in the rejection of undesirable males as well (Sih et al., 2002). The most important activities of the male, stimulating the female to copulate, were antennation involving the stroking of female’s antennae by the tyloidea and stroking by abdomen and the approach.
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2014, Animal BehaviourCitation Excerpt :The likely underlying behavioural mechanism is that more active–aggressive males (again, as long as they were not hyperaggressive) spent more time searching for females in habitats where mating usually occurs. This result is not surprising (see also Sih et al., 2002); nevertheless, because surprisingly few other studies have measured consistent behavioural types for individual males and quantified effects of variation in behavioural type on mating success (Schuett et al., 2010), it is comforting to find corroboration of our intuition. With regard to aggressiveness, a general view is that more aggressive males might mate more because females prefer males that win fights, or because aggressive males win better territories that females prefer (i.e. because aggressive males win out in interference competition).
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Correspondence and present address: A. Sih, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, U.S.A. (email: [email protected]).
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M. Lauer is now at the Biology Department, Viterbo University, 815 South 9th Street, La Crosse, WI 54601, U.S.A.
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J. J. Krupa is at the T. H. Morgan School of Biological Sciences, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0225, U.S.A.