Age-dependent male mating tactics in a spider mite-A life-history perspective.

ABSTRACT: Males often fight with rival males for access to females. However, some males display nonfighting tactics such as sneaking, satellite behavior, or female mimicking. When these mating tactics comprise a conditional strategy, they are often thought to be explained by resource holding potential (RHP), that is, nonfighting tactics are displayed by less competitive males who are more likely to lose a fight. The alternative mating tactics, however, can also be explained by life-history theory, which predicts that young males avoid fighting, regardless of their RHP, if it pays off to wait for future reproduction. Here, we test whether the sneaking tactic displayed by young males of the two-spotted spider mite can be explained by life-history theory. We tested whether young sneaker males survive l

SUBMITTER: Sato Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5513254 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature