Octopaminergic system orchestrates combat and mating behaviors: a potential regulator of alternative male mating tactics in an armed beetle.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104211
Abstract: Male-male combats over females and territories are widespread across animal taxa. The winner of a combat gains resources, while the loser suffers significant costs (e.g. time, energy and injury) without gaining resources. Many animals have… read more here.
Keywords: combat mating; system; mating behaviors; mating ... See more keywords
Fight or flight alternative mating tactics may explain the iconic male polymorphism of the European stag beetle
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-73500-x
Abstract: The existence of different male morphologies within a single species is associated with alternative mating tactics across different animal groups, offering textbook examples of evolutionary biology. The European stag beetle Lucanus cervus is a flagship… read more here.
Keywords: flight; alternative mating; european stag; mating tactics ... See more keywords
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in four poeciliids
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DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae099
Abstract: Male mating tactics, the morphological and behavioral traits that males employ to access potential mates, alter female space use, time budget, and ecology in ways that may have downstream consequences for female behavior and cognition.… read more here.
Keywords: behavior cognition; cognitive behavioral; male mating; mating tactics ... See more keywords
Alternative Mating Tactics in Socially Monogamous Prairie Voles, Microtus ochrogaster
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DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00007
Abstract: ABSTRACT: Alternative mating tactics appear to evolve when sexual selection is strong. Because such conditions are usually observed in species with polygynous or polyandrous mating systems, alternative mating tactics in monogamous mating systems are seldom… read more here.
Keywords: mating tactics; prairie voles; alternative mating; voles microtus ... See more keywords
Dorsal CA1 lesions of the hippocampus impact mating tactics in prairie voles by shifting non-monogamous males’ use of space to resemble monogamous males
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DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1355807
Abstract: Alternative mating tactics within mating systems are characterized by discrete patterns of spatio-temporal overlap with same-and opposite-sex conspecifics and mating-relevant outcomes. Socially monogamous “residents” maintain relatively small home range sizes, have territories that almost exclusively… read more here.
Keywords: space; space use; dorsal ca1; monogamous males ... See more keywords
How inversion variants can shape neural circuitry: Insights from the three-morph mating tactics of ruffs
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DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.1011629
Abstract: Behavior polymorphisms underlying alternative mating tactics can evolve due to genetic inversions, especially when inversions capture sets of genes involved in hormonal regulation. In the three-morph system of the ruff (Calidris pugnax), two alternative morphs… read more here.
Keywords: three morph; inversion; inversion variants; mating tactics ... See more keywords