Delayed plumage maturation in green ‐backed flycatchers (Ficedula elisae): An evidence of female mimicry
AbstractDelayed plumage maturation (DPM) is the delayed acquisition of an adult color and pattern of plumage until after the first potential breeding period. Among the hypotheses proposed to explain DPM, the female mimicry hypothesis (FMH) has received considerable attention. FMH predicts that after ‐second‐calendar‐year (ASY) males should attack ASY males more than second‐calendar‐year (SY) males and females, while no difference between the two latter. Few studies have been thought as support for FMH, while in fact most of them give no conclusive evidence to the assumption of FMH tha t ASY males are unable to di...
Source: Ethology - November 28, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Gong Chen,
Canwei Xia,
Lu Dong,
Nan Lyu,
Yanyun Zhang,
L. Fusani Tags: RESEARCH PAPER Source Type: research
Factors influencing tadpole deposition site choice in a frog with male parental care: An experimental field study
AbstractParents have evolved a variety of strategies to minimize risks to their offspring, including complex choices regarding suitable rearing sites, based on abiotic and biotic factors, which differentially affect offspring survival. Because availability and quality of these sites are variable, parents may have to choose between immediately available lower ‐quality rearing sites or extended search time. In some frog species with larval transport, parents are known to select bodies of water that are free of predators, cannibalistic tadpoles, or intraspecific competitors for larval deposition and rearing sites. We tested...
Source: Ethology - November 20, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Johana Goyes Vallejos,
T. Ulmar Grafe,
Kentwood D. Wells,
S. Foster Tags: RESEARCH PAPER Source Type: research
Sprint speed is not reduced by exaggerated male weapons in a flower beetle Dicronocephalus wallichii
AbstractExaggerated sexually selected traits are assumed to decrease the mobility of bearers. However, previous empirical studies have often failed to support this assumption, possibly because locomotor performance represents the integration of numerous morphological, physiological and behavioural traits. Males of a flower beetleDicronocephalus wallichii Pouillaude 1914 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) possess elongated forelegs and a pair of exaggerated horns, which are used as dual weapons in male –male competition for mates. We investigated whether these two sexual traits impede the maximum sprint speed on bambo...
Source: Ethology - November 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Wataru Kojima,
Chung ‐Ping Lin,
T. Tregenza Tags: RESEARCH PAPER Source Type: research
Attendance to egg clutches by male Kurixalus eiffingeri increases hatching success and decreases predation by invasive slugs (Parmarion martensi) in Taiwan
AbstractInvasive species have a significant impact on amphibians, and most notably Chytrid fungi together with a few vertebrates. However, invasive terrestrial invertebrates are seldomly demonstrated to have a negative effect on their host environment, and few studies investigated the behavioural interactions between invasive and local species, limiting our knowledge of the adaptive response adopted by local organisms. These responses include whether parenting animals recognize predators as threats to their offspring and whether parental care is adequately corrected. Here, through manipulative experiments on a population o...
Source: Ethology - November 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Ming ‐Feng Chuang,
Amaël Borzée,
Yeong‐Choy Kam,
M. Herberstein Tags: RESEARCH PAPER Source Type: research
Female mate choice is a reproductive isolating barrier in Heliconius butterflies
AbstractIn sexually reproducing organisms, speciation involves the evolution of reproductive isolating mechanisms that decrease gene flow. Premating reproductive isolation, often the result of mate choice, is a major obstacle to gene flow between species because it acts earlier in the life cycle than other isolating barriers. While female choice is often considered the default mode in animal species, research in the butterfly genusHeliconius, a frequent subject of speciation studies, has focused on male mate choice. We studied mate choice byHeliconius cydno females by pairing them with either conspecific males or males of ...
Source: Ethology - November 14, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Laura Southcott,
Marcus R. Kronforst,
S. Bertram Tags: RESEARCH PAPER Source Type: research
Front Cover
The cover image is based on the Research PaperFemale mate choice is a reproductive isolating barrier in Heliconius butterflies, by Laura Southcott and Marcus R. Kronforst,https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.12818. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - November 14, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Laura Southcott,
Marcus R. Kronforst,
S. Bertram Tags: FRONT COVER Source Type: research
Issue Information
Ethology, Volume 124, Issue 12, Page ii-iii, December 2018. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - November 14, 2018 Category: Zoology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Variation of vibrational communication signals in animals depends on trait duration
This study adds towards our knowledge about a general pattern for temporal variability of communication signals. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - November 14, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Monika J. B. Eberhard,
Dominique Treschnak,
J. Wright Tags: RESEARCH PAPER Source Type: research
Modulation of trail laying in the ant Lasius neglectus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and its role in the collective selection of a food source
In this study, we explored the feeding behaviour of the invasive garden antLasius neglectus. In particular, we investigated its ability to select the more profitable resource in a binary choice and its pheromonal trail marking. When facing a choice between two different energy sources, workers were rapidly recruited to the most profitable one, although both the speed of the recruitment and the number of ants varied considerably with the difference between the solutions. When facing two identical sources, workers were massively recruited onto one of the two in 80% of tests, whereas in the remaining 20% the workforce was spl...
Source: Ethology - November 14, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Filippo Frizzi,
Francesco Talone,
Giacomo Santini,
M. Herberstein Tags: RESEARCH PAPER Source Type: research
Evolutionary transitions to cooperative societies in fishes revisited
Ethology,Volume 124, Issue 11, Page 777-789, November 2018. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - October 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Hirokazu Tanaka,
Joachim G. Frommen,
Stephan Koblm üller,
Kristina M. Sefc,
Matthew McGee,
Masanori Kohda,
Satoshi Awata,
Michio Hori,
Michael Taborsky,
J. Schneider Source Type: research
Front Cover
Ethology,Volume 124, Issue 11, Page i-i, November 2018. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - October 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Andreas Fischer,
Yerin Lee,
Jordan Stewart,
Gerhard Gries,
S. Foster Source Type: research
Issue Information
Ethology,Volume 124, Issue 11, Page ii-iii, November 2018. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - October 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Source Type: research
Influence of the operational sex ratio on mutual mate choice in the Jamaican field cricket (Gryllus assimilis): Testing the predictions of the switch point theorem
Ethology,Volume 124, Issue 11, Page 816-828, November 2018. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - October 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Amy E. Villarreal,
Jean ‐Guy J. Godin,
Susan M. Bertram,
T. Tregenza Source Type: research
Testosterone pulses at the nest site modify ultrasonic vocalization types in a monogamous and territorial mouse
Ethology,Volume 124, Issue 11, Page 804-815, November 2018. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - October 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Mary E. Timonin,
Matina C. Kalcounis ‐Rueppell,
Catherine A. Marler,
L. Ebensperger Source Type: research
Embryonic heart rate predicts prenatal development rate, but is not related to post ‐natal growth rate or activity level in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
Ethology,Volume 124, Issue 11, Page 829-837, November 2018. (Source: Ethology)
Source: Ethology - October 18, 2018 Category: Zoology Authors: Elizabeth L. Sheldon,
Simon C. Griffith,
L. Fusani Source Type: research
