Signalling, mating success and paternal investment in sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): A theoretical model

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serval:BIB_79316AD68E54
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
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Titre
Signalling, mating success and paternal investment in sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): A theoretical model
Périodique
Behaviour
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Perrin N.
ISSN
0005-7959
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
11/1995
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
132
Numéro
13-14
Pages
1037-1057
Langue
anglais
Notes
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4535319
Résumé
I present an optimisation model that links paternal investment, male display and female choice. Although deviced for sticklebacks, it readily applies to other fish with male guarding behaviour. It relies on a few basic assumptions on the ways hatching success depends on paternal investment and clutch size, and male survival on paternal investment and signaling. Paternal investment is here a state-dependent decision, and signal a condition-dependent handicap by which males inform females of how much they are willing to invest. Series of predictions are derived on female and male breeding strategies, including optimal levels of signaling and paternal investment as functions of clutch size, own condition, and residual reproductive value, as well as alternative strategies such as egg kleptoparasitism. Some predictions already have empirical support, for which the present model provides new interpretations. Other might readily be tested, e.g. by simple clutch-size manipulations.
Mots-clé
3-SPINED STICKLEBACK, SEXUAL SELECTION, MATE CHOICE, FEMALE STICKLEBACKS, HANDICAP PRINCIPLE, NESTS, MALES, EGGS, CANNIBALISM, COLORATION
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