IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/beheco/v29y2018i5p1113-1123..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Quick-change artists: male guppies pay no cost to repeatedly adjust their sexual strategies

Author

Listed:
  • Martina Magris
  • Gianluca Chimetto
  • Sofia Rizzi
  • Andrea Pilastro

Abstract

Being flexible in reproductive decisions is highly beneficial in variable environments, but flexibility may also entail costs. Male guppies modify their sperm production and sexual behavior when mating opportunities vary. We investigated lifetime effects of these responses. We show that repeatedly adjusting reproductive strategies has little cost for male guppies, as it does not compromise their condition, their lifespan, or the expression of sexual traits.

Suggested Citation

  • Martina Magris & Gianluca Chimetto & Sofia Rizzi & Andrea Pilastro, 2018. "Quick-change artists: male guppies pay no cost to repeatedly adjust their sexual strategies," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 29(5), pages 1113-1123.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:29:y:2018:i:5:p:1113-1123.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/beheco/ary087
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Alessandro Devigili & Jennifer L. Kelley & Andrea Pilastro & Jonathan P. Evans, 2013. "Expression of pre- and postcopulatory traits under different dietary conditions in guppies," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 24(3), pages 740-749.
    2. Flavia Barbosa, 2012. "Males responding to sperm competition cues have higher fertilization success in a soldier fly," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 23(4), pages 815-819.
    3. Alessandro Devigili & Victoria Doldán-Martelli & Andrea Pilastro, 2015. "Exploring simultaneous allocation to mating effort, sperm production, and body growth in male guppies," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 26(4), pages 1203-1211.
    4. Robert Olendorf & F. Helen Rodd & David Punzalan & Anne E. Houde & Carla Hurt & David N. Reznick & Kimberly A. Hughes, 2006. "Frequency-dependent survival in natural guppy populations," Nature, Nature, vol. 441(7093), pages 633-636, June.
    5. Jonathan P. Evans & Lorenzo Zane & Samuela Francescato & Andrea Pilastro, 2003. "Directional postcopulatory sexual selection revealed by artificial insemination," Nature, Nature, vol. 421(6921), pages 360-363, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Erika Fernlund Isaksson & Charel Reuland & Ariel F Kahrl & Alessandro Devigili & John L Fitzpatrick, 2022. "Resource-dependent investment in male sexual traits in a viviparous fish [Body size and its effect on male-male competition in Hylaeus alcyoneus (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)]," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 33(5), pages 954-966.
    2. Heather L. Auld & Indar W. Ramnarine & Jean-Guy J. Godin, 2017. "Male mate choice in the Trinidadian guppy is influenced by the phenotype of audience sexual rivals," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 28(2), pages 362-372.
    3. Josephine R. Paris & James R. Whiting & Mitchel J. Daniel & Joan Ferrer Obiol & Paul J. Parsons & Mijke J. Zee & Christopher W. Wheat & Kimberly A. Hughes & Bonnie A. Fraser, 2022. "A large and diverse autosomal haplotype is associated with sex-linked colour polymorphism in the guppy," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-15, December.
    4. Brian Gray & Leigh W. Simmons, 2013. "Acoustic cues alter perceived sperm competition risk in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 24(4), pages 982-986.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:29:y:2018:i:5:p:1113-1123.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/beheco .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.