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Dario Josi Michael Taborsky Joachim G. Frommen 《Ethology : formerly Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie》2019,125(3):164-169
Helping behaviour in cooperative breeders has been intensively studied in many animal taxa, including arthropods, birds and mammals. In these highly social systems, helpers typically engage in brood care and the protection of dependent young. Such helping systems also exist in cooperatively breeding cichlid species of Lake Tanganyika. However, breeding in these species happens in clefts, narrow holes or shelters underneath stones. Therefore, direct brood care by breeders and helpers has thus far only been observed under artificial laboratory conditions. Under natural conditions, brood care behaviour has been estimated indirectly by determining the time spent in the breeding chamber, or by the number of visits to the breeding chamber. The reliability of such substitutes needs to be validated, for instance, by demonstrating alloparental egg care of helpers through direct observations in nature. Here, we describe direct egg care by a male helper of the cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus savoryi in the field. The helper inspected and cleaned the eggs and defended them against predators. By reconstructing the genetic relatedness using microsatellite markers, we show that the helper was the son of the breeding male, but unrelated to the breeding female. The genetic mother of the helper was defending a different territory next to the one where the helper showed alloparental egg care. This indicates that the helper had dispersed inside the male territory to assist another female to care for his half‐siblings. These results demonstrate alloparental egg care without reproductive share in a fish species under natural conditions, underlining that helping behaviour in cooperatively breeding fish has a strong non‐self‐serving component. 相似文献
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Tetsuo Kuwamura 《Journal of Ethology》1986,4(2):129-146
Reproductive ecology and ethology of 52 cichlid fishes were studied along the shore of Myako, east-middle coast of Lake Tanganyika.
Seventeen species were substrate-brooders (guarders), 31 were mouthbrooders, and the remaining 4 were intermediate, performing
prolonged biparental guarding of fry after mouthbrooding. Among the substrate-brooders maternal care (and polygyny) was seen
about as frequently as biparental care. In most of the mouthbrooders only females took care of the brood, but in 3 species
eggs and small larvae were mouthbrooded by females and larger fry by males. In most of the maternal mouthbrooders males defended
mating territories which females visited to spawn. The mating system differed from lekking in that there was no concentration
of territories and males fed within them. In the remaining maternal mouthbrooders males and overlapping home ranges and only
temporarily defended courtship sites in each bout of spawning. Brood size, egg size, breeding site, and sexual differences
in body size and color are described. The relationship between parentalcare patterns and mating systems within the family
Cichlidae are discussed. 相似文献
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Robert J. Lavery Stphan G. Reebs 《Ethology : formerly Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie》1994,97(4):265-277
In most biparental, substrate-brooding species of cichlid fishes, female and male roles differ. Females are usually more involved in direct care of the young while males spend more time away patrolling the territory. This study tested the flexibility of these sex roles with removal experiments in the convict cichlid, Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum. When males were removed, female fanning activity increased. When females were removed, males spent more time fanning and less time away from the brood. Other behavioural variables (frequency of digging, mouthing, foraging and retrieving) were not affected. Being alone or paired during a first breeding episode did not affect parental behaviour during a subsequent episode in which all fish were paired. Observations were carried out during the day and at night, and nocturnal fanning of fry is reported here for the first time. Female role appears less flexible than male role, as befits the more direct care normally given by females. 相似文献
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The factors promoting the evolution of parental care strategies have been extensively studied in experiment and theory. However, most attempts to examine parental care in an evolutionary context have evaluated broad taxonomic categories. The explosive and recent diversifications of East African cichlid fishes offer exceptional opportunities to study the evolution of various life history traits based on species-level phylogenies. The Xenotilapia lineage within the endemic Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Ectodini comprises species that display either biparental or maternal only brood care and hence offers a unique opportunity to study the evolution of distinct parental care strategies in a phylogenetic framework. In order to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among 16 species of this lineage we scored 2,478 Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) across the genome. We find that the Ectodini genus Enantiopus is embedded within the genus Xenotilapia and that during 2.5 to 3 million years of evolution within the Xenotilapia clade there have been 3-5 transitions from maternal only to biparental care. While most previous models suggest that uniparental care (maternal or paternal) arose from biparental care, we conclude from our species-level analysis that the evolution of parental care strategies is not only remarkably fast, but much more labile than previously expected. 相似文献
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Martina G. Ramirez Celina M. Oliveri Dina Mismar Amy Barsoum Jasmin Abdulla 《Invertebrate reproduction & development.》2013,57(2):96-103
Male Mastophora cornigera exit egg sacs as adults, which allowed us to determine spiderling sex ratios and patterns of maternal investment in this species. We collected 15 egg sacs produced by seven mothers, which yielded 1945 emergent spiderlings which were sexed, 1850 of which were weighed. Two emergent broods were significantly male and female biased and were unaffected by pre-emergence mortality. The weights of male and female spiderlings differed in eight broods, with males and females being heavier in four cases each. Five of these broods were derived from multiple egg sac sets produced by one mother, and in each case, the total mean male and female spiderling weights for all broods in a set were biased in the same direction as the biased brood(s) within that set. Mean emergent spiderling weight was independent of brood size and sex ratio for both males and females. Despite such independence, sex allocation in M. cornigera can favor sons, daughters, or both equally, and by numbers, by weight, or both at once. The proximate mechanisms and adaptive significance of such variability is unknown. We also review evidence for gender-biased allocations in arachnid offspring and suggested mechanisms for their applicability to M. cornigera. 相似文献
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Sabine Wirtz‐Ocaňa Dolores Schütz Gudrun Pachler Michael Taborsky 《Ecology and evolution》2013,3(6):1614-1625
In species with indeterminate growth, age‐related size variation of reproductive competitors within each sex is often high. This selects for divergence in reproductive tactics of same‐sex competitors, particularly in males. Where alternative tactics are fixed for life, the causality of tactic choice is often unclear. In the African cichlid Lamprologus callipterus, large nest males collect and present empty snail shells to females that use these shells for egg deposition and brood care. Small dwarf males attempt to fertilize eggs by entering shells in which females are spawning. The bourgeois nest males exceed parasitic dwarf males in size by nearly two orders of magnitude, which is likely to result from greatly diverging growth patterns. Here, we ask whether growth patterns are heritable in this species, or whether and to which extent they are determined by environmental factors. Standardized breeding experiments using unrelated offspring and maternal half‐sibs revealed highly divergent growth patterns of male young sired by nest or dwarf males, whereas the growth of female offspring of both male types did not differ. As expected, food had a significant modifying effect on growth, but neither the quantity of breeding substrate in the environment nor ambient temperature affected growth. None of the environmental factors tested influenced the choice of male life histories. We conclude that in L. callipterus growth rates of bourgeois and parasitic males are paternally inherited, and that male and female growth is phenotypically plastic to only a small degree. 相似文献
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Patterns of parental care in Neotropical glassfrogs: fieldwork alters hypotheses of sex‐role evolution
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Many animals provide parental care to offspring. Parental sex‐roles vary extensively across taxa, and such patterns are considered well documented. However, information on amphibians is lacking relative to other vertebrate groups. We combine natural history observations with functional and historical analyses to examine the evolution of egg care in glassfrogs (Centrolenidae). Parental care was considered rare and predominately provided by males. Our field observations of 40 species revealed that care occurs throughout the family, and the caregiving sex changes across lineages. We discovered that a brief period of maternal care is widespread and occurs in species previously thought to lack care. Using a combination of female‐removal experiments, prey‐choice tests with egg‐eating katydids, and parental disturbance‐tolerance assays, we confirm the adaptive benefits of short‐term maternal care in wild Cochranella granulosa and Teratohyla pulverata. To examine historical transitions between caregiving sexes, we assembled a molecular phylogeny and estimated ancestral care states using our data and the literature. We assessed patterns indicative of sex‐specific constraints by testing whether transitions between the sexes are associated with changes in care levels. Our analyses support that male‐only care evolved 2–3 times from female‐only care, and this change is associated with substantial increases in care levels – a pattern supporting the hypothesis that male‐only care evolved via constraints on maternal expenditure. Many groups of amphibians remain poorly studied, with emerging evidence indicating that care patterns are more diverse than currently appreciated. Natural history remains fundamental to uncovering this diversity and generating testable hypotheses of sex‐role evolution. 相似文献
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Female parents ofElasmucha dorsalis attend their offspring and show specific sequential defensive behavior when disturbed. Intense responses of brooding females
such as wing fanning were usually triggered by exposure to crushed nymphs. Maternal care continued for a long time, sometimes
into the fourth or last nymphal instar. Female removal experiments showed that maternal defense is highly effective under
field conditions. High egg mortality observed in the field was probably due to the predation by an ant,Myrmica ruginodis, which occurred at high densities on the host plant,Aruncus dioicus. Most of the egg masses were found on the leaves subtending axillary inflorescence of the female plants, and nymphs usually
aggregated and fed on fruits in the inflorescence. Because the food of nymphs is temporally limited, the female can produce
only a single brood. Thus, temporality of food resources as well as a heavy predation pressure may have led to prolonged maternal
care. 相似文献
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S. Balshine-Earn D. J. D. Earn 《Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society》1998,265(1411):2217
Evolutionary theory predicts that differences in parental care patterns among species arose from interspecific differences in the costs and benefits of care for each sex. In Galilee St Peter''s fish, Sarotherodon galilaeus (Cichlidae), male care, female care and biparental care all occur in the same population. We exploit this unusual variability to isolate conditions favouring biparental versus uniparental mouth-brooding by males or females. We first review a game-theoretic model of parental care evolution, predictions of which we test experimentally in this paper. Manipulations of the operational sex ratio show that males and females desert their offspring more frequently when the costs of care are high (in terms of lost mating opportunities). Breeding trials with males of different sizes show that small fathers desert more frequently than large fathers. We attribute this to the associated difference in the fitness benefit of biparental care relative to female-only care. Our experimental results confirm that in St Peter''s fish the probability of caring is determined facultatively according to current conditions at each spawn. The experiments and model together suggest that interspecific variation in remating opportunities and clutch size may be responsible for differences in care patterns within the sub-family Tilapiini. Our results support the hypothesis that biparental mouth-brooding was the ancestral state of both male and female uniparental mouth-brooding in cichlid fishes. 相似文献
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The cuckoo catfish Synodontis multipunctatus and S. grandiops are endemic to Lake Tanganyika and the only known nonavian vertebrates that exhibit obligate interspecific brood parasitism. Seven maternal mouth-brooding cichlid fish species are reported to be natural hosts of the parasitic catfish and share a common reproductive behaviour that the catfish exploits: cichlid females spawn eggs on the bottom, allowing the catfish female to place her eggs near the cichlid eggs, and the cichlid females collect the catfish eggs by mouth together with their own eggs. However, so far it has not been reported that the cuckoo catfish exploit different spawning behaviours. The genus Cyprichromis consists of five maternal mouth-brooding species endemic to Lake Tanganyika, most of which spawn and collect eggs in open water. This study reports that the cuckoo catfish also parasitizes the open-water spawning Cyprichromis coloratus, although it may not be a regular host. 相似文献
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Summary A new form of maternal provisioning of newly hatched nymphs is described in the ovoviviparous cockroach Gromphadorhina portentosa. Shortly after expelling the hatching egg case, the female exudes from her abdominal tip a whitish, translucent material on which neonates actively feed. Integumentary gland cells lining the brood sac are the most likely source of the secretion. This form of maternal provisioning may not be restricted to the Madagascar hissing cockroach; a glandular brood sac similar to that of G. portentosa is found in at least three additional ovoviviparous cockroaches.Received 22 January 2003; revised 4 March 2003; accepted 19 March 2003. 相似文献
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Erkki J. Schwanck 《Environmental Biology of Fishes》1989,24(4):251-265
Synopsis Parental care of Tilapia mariae was observed in nature (Ethiop River, Nigeria) and in aquaria with or without intruders present. In the field, 25–30% of
nests are guarded by one parent, normally the female. It is assumed that most missing males have deserted. Males who participate
in brood care exhibit both close brood guarding and brood defence at a lower level than females, and hence seem to invest
less than females. Broods were guarded under three distinct types: (1) female at the brood, male in surroundings, (2) parents
take turns, or (3) parents stay together at the brood. Each pair used predominantly one type until the young swam freely,
thereafter type 3. Females defended most in type 3, but male attack rate did not differ among the types. Type 3 seems related
to increased risk of brood predation and type 2 to the female's foraging needs, being more common when she is small and the
mates do not differ much in size. The unequal guarding times of type 1 indicate rather a low parental investment by the male
(and thus risk of desertion) than specialization in roles on equal investment basis. Parental behaviour exhibited in aquaria
differed in many ways from that in nature. The role types were indistinct and there were more signs of motivational conflict
between the mates. Isolated pairs avoided joint guarding in the embryo period and while switching, female turns were much
longer than male turns, unlike in nature. When intruders were added, males attacked them more than did females. 相似文献
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John S. Sparks Wm. Leo Smith 《Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society》2004,20(6):501-517
Family level molecular phylogenetic analyses of cichlid fishes have generally suffered from a limited number of characters and/or poor taxonomic sampling across one or more major geographic assemblage, and therefore have not provided a robust test of early intrafamilial diversification. Herein we use both nuclear and mitochondrial nucleotide characters and direct optimization to reconstruct a phylogeny for cichlid fishes. Representatives of major cichlid lineages across all geographic assemblages are included, as well as nearly twice the number of characters as any prior family‐level study. In a strict consensus of 81 equally most‐parsimonious hypotheses, based on the simultaneous analysis of 2222 aligned nucleotide characters from two mitochondrial and two nuclear genes, four major subfamilial lineages are recovered with strong support. Etroplinae, endemic to Madagascar (Paretroplus) and southern Asia (Etroplus), is recovered as the sister taxon to the remainder of Cichlidae. Although the South Asian cichlids are monophyletic, the Malagasy plus South Asian lineages are not. The remaining Malagasy lineage, Ptychochrominae, is monophyletic and is recovered as the sister group to a clade comprising the African and Neotropical cichlids. The African (Pseudocrenilabrinae) and Neotropical (Cichlinae) lineages are each monophyletic in this reconstruction. The use of multiple molecular markers, from both mitochondrial and nuclear genes, results in a phylogeny that in general exhibits strong support, notably for early diversification events within Cichlidae. Results further indicate that Labroidei is not monophyletic, and that the sister group to Cichlidae may comprise a large and diverse assemblage of percomorph lineages. This hypothesis may at least partly explain why morphological studies that have attempted to place Cichlidae within Percomorpha, or that have tested cichlid monophyly using only “labroid” lineages, have met with only limited success. © The Willi Hennig Society 2004. 相似文献
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William Rogers 《Ethology : formerly Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie》1988,79(2):126-142
The Midas cichlid (Cichlasoma citrinellum) is an aggressive, monogamous fish living in the Great Lakes of Nicaragua. Its breeding success rates are low due to intense competition for breeding sites and high levels of predation on the young. Male Midas cichlids devote a small portion of body weight to gonads and gametes compared with females. Males produce relatively small amounts of sperm perhaps because cichlid fertilization is very efficient and the male has a high certainty of paternity. While pair members invest equal amounts of time in parental care over the course of the breeding cycle, there is a clear division of labor. Males invest more in territorial protection than do females, whereas females provide more nurturance. Both parents are active over the course of the cycle but the male invests more intensely in the early stages of the cycle. About the time the eggs hatch, the burden of care shifts to the female and she continues to invest significantly more than the male over the remainder of the cycle. Females invest much more than do males when tissue investment and parental behavior are combined. Females also assume more of the burden of care as the brood matures. The male is not free to take advantage of this and leave his mate to initiate other broods because two parents are needed to defend the breeding site and brood. Monogamy with biparental care results. 相似文献
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Julia Schwarzer Bernhard Misof Diethard Tautz Ulrich K Schliewen 《BMC evolutionary biology》2009,9(1):186
Background
For decades cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Cichlidae) of the East African cichlid radiations (Teleostei: Cichlidae) have served as natural experimental subjects for the study of speciation processes and the search for potential speciation key factors. Despite numerous phylogenetic studies dealing with their intragroup relationships, surprisingly little is known about the phylogenetic placement and time of origin of this enigmatic group. We used multilocus DNA-sequence data from five nuclear and four mitochondrial genes and refined divergence time estimates to fill this knowledge gap. 相似文献18.
Parental care theory assumes that investment in current offspring will trade against future investment. A number of field studies on birds have used clutch size manipulations to demonstrate a survival cost to chick rearing. However, such studies do not account for costs accrued during earlier stages of reproduction because not all aspects of reproductive effort are manipulated by varying the number of nestlings. In this study, we investigate the effect of reproductive effort on female survival in the dung beetle, Onthophagus taurus. By experimentally manipulating mating status and dung availability, we demonstrate that virgin females survive longer than mated females and that the survival of mated females was negatively associated with the number of brood masses produced. Using a novel manipulation of the mating system, we separated the effects of egg production and maternal care on female survival. Previously, we have shown that females provisioning with the assistance of a major male provide relatively less care than unassisted females. However, paternal assistance did not alter the number of brood masses produced and hence the amount of reproductive effort that was allocated to egg production. Therefore, our finding that female survival was increased when receiving paternal assistance provides, to our knowledge, the first definitive evidence that maternal care reduces female lifespan. These results are of major importance to theoretical models on the evolution of parental care. 相似文献
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Naoya Abe 《Environmental Biology of Fishes》1998,52(1-3):271-280
This is the first report demonstrating the occurrence of parental care in mastacembelids. Social organization and parental care of a spiny eel Aethiomastacembelus platysoma were studied in Lake Tanganyika. Both males and females maintained individual territories though the frequency of aggressive interaction was low. The male guarded offspring in a rock hole within its territory. The egg size was large (2.5–2.7 mm in diameter) and the brood size in a nest was 5.7 on average in spite of more oocytes in the ovary (65 large oocytes on average). The duration of guarding was around 30 days after hatching and the young became independent just after they began to feed. Guarding males seldom attacked fishes that approached the nest, and often went out of the nest to forage though the stomach contents of guarding males were less than those of non-guarding males. Compared with Tanganyikan cichlid fishes that show prolonged parental care at open sites, the post-hatching guarding interval is short and the egg size is large, which seem to be traits common to fishes that utilize closed spaces as guarding sites in the lake. 相似文献
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Discriminating female mate preferences enhance the variance in reproductive success among males of a population and create
a potential for sexual selection, which can account for trait evolution and diversification. Fish color patterns are among
the prime targets of mate choice-driven sexual selection. Populations of the cichlid Tropheus from Lake Tanganyika display remarkable geographic color pattern variation, but the role of female choice in their rapid
and rich phenotypic diversification is unclear. Males and females establish a pair bond prior to spawning monogamously, but
as brood care is strictly maternal, female investment in reproduction is high and the operational sex ratio is male-biased.
Therefore, variance in male reproductive success can accrue if individual males succeed repeatedly in securing a mate. To
test this prediction in the red colored Tropheus moorii “Chimba”, four pairs of males were presented to a series of females and female mate preferences were inferred from pairwise
interactions. There was a significant difference in mating success between the males of each pair (P < 0.001 over all trials), as—with one exception—females shared preferences for the same males. Male courtship activity was
strongly correlated with female choice. Our experiment suggests that female choice contributes to the variance in male reproductive
success in the tested population. 相似文献