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dc.contributor.authorBurdfield-Steel, Emily R.
dc.contributor.authorShuker, David M.
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-18T16:01:01Z
dc.date.available2015-02-18T16:01:01Z
dc.date.issued2014-11
dc.identifier.citationBurdfield-Steel , E R & Shuker , D M 2014 , ' Mate-guarding in a promiscuous insect : species discrimination influences context-dependent behaviour ' , Evolutionary Ecology , vol. 28 , no. 6 , pp. 1031-1042 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-014-9726-7en
dc.identifier.issn0269-7653
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 158980831
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: e8aa1b65-b2aa-4b33-9773-cefbd87e2e22
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000344075200004
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84911957972
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000344075200004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6123
dc.descriptionFunding: NERC studentshipen
dc.description.abstractMating strategy is often informed by social context. However, information on social environment may be sensitive to interference by nearby heterospecifics, a process known as reproductive interference (RI). When heterospecific individuals are present in the environment, failures in species discrimination can lead to sub-optimal mating behaviours, such as misplaced courtship, misplaced rivalry behaviours, or heterospecific copulation attempts. All aspects of mating behaviour that are influenced by social context may be prone to RI, including copulatory behaviours associated with mate-guarding in the presence of possible competitors. Here we investigate the effect of three heterospecifics on the mate-guarding behaviour of male Lygaeus equestris seed bugs. We find that, despite previously reported heterospecific mating harassment amongst these species of lygaeid bug, male L. equestris are able to effectively distinguish rival conspecific males from heterospecifics. Thus, heterospecific mating attempts in this group may reflect selection on males to mate opportunistically, rather than a failure of species discrimination.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEvolutionary Ecologyen
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2014. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.en
dc.subjectSpecies discriminationen
dc.subjectSpecies recognitionen
dc.subjectReproductive interferenceen
dc.subjectMate guardingen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleMate-guarding in a promiscuous insect : species discrimination influences context-dependent behaviouren
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-014-9726-7
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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