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Tina Wyllie Echeverria 《Environmental Biology of Fishes》1986,15(3):181-190
Synopsis Sexual dimorphisms, and factors influencing the evolution of these differences, have been investigated for four species of
rockfish:Sebastes melanops, S. flavidus, S. mystinus, andS. serranoides. These four species, which have similar ecology, tend to aggregate by species with males and females staying together throughout
the year. In all four species adult females reach larger sizes than males, which probably relates to their role in reproduction.
The number of eggs produced increases with size, so that natural selection has favored larger females. It appears males were
subjected to different selective pressures than females. It was more advantageous for males to mature quickly, to become reproductive,
than to expend energy on growth. Other sexually dimorphic features include larger eyes in males of all four species and longer
pectoral fin rays in males of the three piscivorous species:S. melanops, S. flavidus, andS. serranoides. The larger pectoral fins may permit smaller males to coexist with females by increasing acceleration and, together with
the proportionately larger eye, enable the male to compete successfully with the female to capture elusive prey (the latter
not necessarily useful for the planktivoreS. mystinus). Since the size of the eye is equivalent in both sexes of the same age, visual perception should be comparable for both
sexes. 相似文献
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Cardinalfishes, in which males alone provide mouthbrooding, are likely candidates for sex-role reversal because of a higher
potential reproductive rate for females than for males. In the gregarious cardinalfish, Apogon notatus, females establish breeding territories to form pairs prior to the breeding season. Within breeding pairs, females are more
active in courtship and in attacks against conspecific intruders. Sex roles thus seem to be behaviorally reversed. The operational
sex ratio is, however, male-biased because females suffer higher mortality than males and consequently males predominate in
number in the adult population, leading to the prediction that males would be sexually selected. In the present study, morphological
measurements showed that males had a protrudent lower lip that was expressed markedly during the breeding season. Field observation
revealed that males with a longer and wider lip were preferentially accepted as a mating partner by territorial females. The
male lip size positively correlated with their somatic condition, suggesting that the ornamental lip has evolved through indicator
mechanisms of sexual selection. By contrast, females had longer fins than males, but these sexual dimorphisms were less pronounced
and most of them were seasonally constant. These results support the prediction that sexual selection acts on males in this
fish.
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Sexual size dimorphisms (SSDs) in body size are expected to evolve when selection on female and male sizes favors different optima. Many insects show female-biased SSD that is usually explained by the strong fecundity advantage of larger females. However, in some insects, males are as large as or even larger than females. The seed bug Togo hemipterus (Scott) also exhibits a male-biased SSD in body size. Many studies that have clarified the evolutionary causes of male-biased SSD have focused only on male advantages due to male–male competition. To clarify the evolutionary causes of male-biased SSD in body size, we should examine the degree of not only the sexual selection that favors larger males but also natural selection that is acting on female fecundity. The obtained results, which showed higher mating acceptance rates to larger males, implies that females prefer larger males. No significant relationship was detected between female body size and fecundity; body size effects on female fecundity were weak or undetectable. We conclude that male-biased SSD in T. hemipterus can be accounted for by a combination of sexual selection through male–male competition and female choice favoring large males, plus weak or undetectable natural selection that favors large females due to a fecundity advantage. 相似文献
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GREG JOHNSTON 《Austral ecology》2011,36(2):117-125
Males and females differ in body size in many animals, but the direction and extent of this sexual size dimorphism (SSD) varies widely. Males are larger than females in most lizards of the iguanian clade, which includes dragon lizards (Agamidae). I tested whether the male larger pattern of SSD in the peninsula dragon lizard, Ctenophorus fionni, is a result of sexual selection for large male size or relatively higher mortality among females. Data on growth and survivorship were collected from wild lizards during 1991–1994. The likelihood of differential predation between males and females was assessed by exposing pairs of male and female lizards to a predator in captivity, and by comparing the frequency of tail damage in wild‐caught males and females. Male and female C. fionni grew at the same rate, but males grew for longer than females and reached a larger asymptotic size (87 mm vs. 78 mm). Large males were under‐represented in the population because they suffered higher mortality than females. Predation may account for some of this male‐biased mortality. The male‐biased SSD in C. fionni resulted from differences in growth pattern between the sexes. The male‐biased SSD was not the result of proximate factors reducing female body size. Indeed SSD in this species remained male‐biased despite high mortality among large males. SSD in C. fionni is consistent with the ultimate explanation of sexual selection for large body size in males. 相似文献
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Satoshi Awata Saori Miura Satoko Seki Teppei Sagawa Noriyosi Sato Kazuhiko Sakai 《Ichthyological Research》2010,57(2):161-168
To investigate seasonal changes in reproductive and physical condition, sexual dimorphism, and mating tactics in the jewelled
blenny Salarias fasciatus, monthly collections were conducted on the fringing reef in northern Okinawa, Japan. Monthly variation in the female gonadosomatic
index suggested that the breeding season of this species is from April to June. The physical condition and hepatosomatic index
of both sexes considerably deteriorated during the course of the breeding season. Such declines may be primarily due to egg
production in females and brood care in males. Males’ elongated anal spines were longer than females’, but no other apparent
sexual dimorphisms were detected, indicating that S. fasciatus exhibits a low degree of sexual dimorphism. Examinations of testes size and the testicular gland area during the estimated
breeding season revealed that the gonadosomatic index values of smaller males did not differ from those of larger males. This
result may differ from other blenny species that exhibit alternative male reproductive tactics. However, patterns of male
testicular glands of S. fasciatus were similar to those of other blennies with alternative tactics, i.e., smaller males had poorly developed testicular glands
compared with larger males. 相似文献
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S. J. Beaupre D. Duvall 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1998,168(7):497-506
Variation in metabolism affects energy budgets of individuals and may serve as a mechanism that influences variation at whole
organism or population levels. For example, sex differences in metabolic expenditure may contribute to bioenergetic sources
of sexual size dimorphism. We measured oxygen consumption rates of 48 western diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox) from a sexually dimorphic population and tested the effects of body mass, body temperature and time of day, in three groups
of snakes: males, non-reproductive females, and vitellogenic females. Metabolic rates of male and non-reproductive female
C. atrox were similar to rates reported for other rattlesnakes (mass exponents ranging from 0.645–0.670). Oxygen consumption was affected
by body mass, body temperature and time of day, and was approximately 1.4 times greater in vitellogenic females than in non-reproductive
females. No differences were found between males and non-reproductive females. Accordingly, differences in metabolic rate
apparently do not contribute directly to sexual dimorphism in this population. Nevertheless, estimates of size-dependent maintenance
expenditure lead us to hypothesize that adult female body size may represent a compromise between selection for increased
litter size (accomplished by increasing body size), and selection for increased reproductive frequency (accomplished by decreasing
body size, and, therefore inactive maintenance expenditure); this is a mechanistic scenario suggested previously for some
endotherms.
Accepted: 20 May 1998 相似文献
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Variation in selection pressure acting on body size by age and sex in a reverse sexual size dimorphic raptor
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Body size strongly influences fitness, with larger individuals benefiting in terms of both greater productivity and survivorship; for reverse sexual size dimorphic (RSD) species, this relationship may be more complex. We examined the selection pressures acting on body size in male and female Merlins Falco columbarius to assess whether larger or smaller individuals of this RSD species were favoured in terms of survival and breeding performance. For males and females there were clear links between body size and survival but the exact relationship varied by sex. Among males, birds that survived each year class were larger than those that died and yearlings were on average smaller than older birds, but there were no measurable differences among adult males (age 2+). Among females, larger individuals aged 1 and 2 years were more likely to survive, but this size‐based pattern was not apparent in older age classes. Size early in life predicted the lifespan in male Merlins but not as strongly as for females and not for the largest individuals. Reproductive performance based on brood size was not associated with body size in either males or females, but there was a weak positive relationship between female body size and lifetime reproductive success. Selection appears to favour larger males and females but there is no indication that the population is evolving towards bigger individuals, perhaps in part due to selection against the largest birds. Increased survival may allow larger and higher quality individuals to occupy higher quality territories as they age and thereby to accrue greater lifetime reproductive success in the process. 相似文献
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Effects of size at metamorphosis on stonefly fecundity, longevity, and reproductive success 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Many organisms with complex life cycles show considerable variation in size and timing at metamorphosis. Adult males of Megarcyssignata (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) are significantly smaller than females and emerge before females (protandry) from two western Colorado
streams. During summer 1992 stoneflies from a trout stream emerged earlier in the season and at larger sizes than those from
a colder fishless stream, and size at metamorphosis did not change over the emergence period in either stream. We performed
two experiments to determine whether variation in size at metamorphosis affected the fecundity, reproductive success and longevity
of individuals of this stonefly species and if total lifetime fecundity was affected by the number of matings. In the first
experiment, total lifetime fecundity (eggs oviposited) was determined for adult females held in small plastic cages in the
field. Males were removed after one copulation, or pairs were left together for life and allowed to multiply mate. Most copulations
occurred in the first few days of the experiment. Females in treatments allowing multiple matings had significantly lower
total lifetime fecundity and shorter adult longevity than females that only mated once. Multiple matings also reduced longevity
of males. Fecundity increased significantly with female body mass at emergence, but only for females that mated once. While
multiple matings eliminated the fecundity advantage of large female body size, number of matings did not affect the significant
positive relationship between body mass at metamorphosis and longevity of males or females. In a second experiment designed
to determine if body mass at emergence affected male mating success, we placed one large and one small male Megarcys in an observation arena containing one female and recorded which male obtained the first mating. The large and the small
male had equal probabilities of copulating with the female. Copulations usually lasted all night, and the unmated male made
frequent, but unsuccessful attempts to take over the copulating female. Our data suggest that selection pressures determining
body size at metamorphosis may operate independently on males and females, resulting in evolution of sexual size dimorphism,
protandry, and mating early in the adult stage. We emphasize the importance of interpreting the fitness consequences of larval
growth and development on the timing of and size at metamorphosis in the context of the complete life cycle.
Received: 1 July 1997 / Accepted: 12 November 1997 相似文献
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The interplay between natural and sexual selection in the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in Sceloporus lizards (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)
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Víctor H. Jiménez‐Arcos Salomón Sanabria‐Urbán Raúl Cueva del Castillo 《Ecology and evolution》2017,7(3):905-917
Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) evolves because body size is usually related to reproductive success through different pathways in females and males. Female body size is strongly correlated with fecundity, while in males, body size is correlated with mating success. In many lizard species, males are larger than females, whereas in others, females are the larger sex, suggesting that selection on fecundity has been stronger than sexual selection on males. As placental development or egg retention requires more space within the abdominal cavity, it has been suggested that females of viviparous lizards have larger abdomens or body size than their oviparous relatives. Thus, it would be expected that females of viviparous species attain larger sizes than their oviparous relatives, generating more biased patterns of SSD. We test these predictions using lizards of the genus Sceloporus. After controlling for phylogenetic effects, our results confirm a strong relationship between female body size and fecundity, suggesting that selection for higher fecundity has had a main role in the evolution of female body size. However, oviparous and viviparous females exhibit similar sizes and allometric relationships. Even though there is a strong effect of body size on female fecundity, once phylogenetic effects are considered, we find that the slope of male on female body size is significantly larger than one, providing evidence of greater evolutionary divergence of male body size. These results suggest that the relative impact of sexual selection acting on males has been stronger than fecundity selection acting on females within Sceloporus lizards. 相似文献
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Robert C. St. Clair 《Oecologia》1998,115(4):501-507
An adaptive explanation for environmental sex determination is that it promotes sexual size dimorphism when larger size benefits
one sex more than the other. That is, if growth rates are determined by environment during development, then it is beneficial
to match developmental environment to the sex that benefits more from larger size. However, larger size may also be a consequence
of larger size at hatching or growing for a longer time, i.e., delayed age at first reproduction. Therefore, the adaptive
significance of sexual size dimorphism and environmental sex determination can only be interpreted within the context of both
growth and maturation. In addition, in those animals that continue to grow after maturation, sexual size dimorphism at age
of first reproduction could differ from sexual size dimorphism at later ages as growth competes for energy with reproduction
and maintenance. I compared growth using annuli on carapace scales in two species of box turtles (Terrapene carolina and T. ornata) that have similar patterns of environmental sex determination but, reportedly, have different patterns of sexual size dimorphism.
In the populations I studied, sexual size dimorphism was in the same direction in both species; adult females were, on average,
larger than adult males. This was due in part to males maturing earlier and therefore at smaller sizes than females. In spite
of similar patterns of environmental sex determination, patterns of growth differed between the species. In T. carolina, males grew faster than females as juveniles but females had the larger asymptotic size. In T. ornata, males and females grew at similar rates and had similar asymptotic sizes. Sexual size dimorphism was greatest at maturation
because, although males matured younger and smaller, they grew more as adults. There was, therefore, no consistent pattern
of faster growth for females that may be ascribed to developmental temperature.
Received: 20 March 1996 / Accepted: 10 March 1998 相似文献
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Signalling fitness: larger males sire more offspring. Studies of the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis whitei (Diopsidae,Diptera) 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
D. Burkhardt I. de la Motte K. Lunau 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1994,174(1):61-64
Some species of stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae, Diptera) have a sexual dimorphism of eyespan. For example, Cyrtodiopsis whitei males have much longer eyestalks than females of equal body length. Expression of this trait increases with the bearers' size. The slope of the log-log regression line eyespan versus body length is close to two in males, while in females it is roughly one. Behavioural experiments suggest that male eyespan signals quantitatively a male's strength or attractiveness to a competitor or mate. We used 3 pure strains of C. Whitei, which were distinguished by their different phosphoglucomutase allele outfit. We compared the reproductive success of males of different sizes and found the number of offspring to be directly proportional to body length. Thus eyespan, rising with the square of body length, provides an exaggerated and highly conclusive signal in the advertisement of fitness. 相似文献
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In amphibians, theory predicts that male mate choice with respect to female body size can be expected to occur when female
fecundity is related to body size and when the time and energy invested into one mating are relatively large. Based on experimental
observations, we tested whether male mate choice occurs in a population of the Andrew’s toad (Bufo andrewsi), a species in which both assumptions are likely to be met. When a male B. andrewsi was placed with a gravid female and a non-gravid similar-sized female, the male did not discriminate between them. When two
gravid females with distinct size differences were provided to a male, the male preferred the larger one. In an experiment
in which two different-sized gravid females were put in two separate transparent cylinders to exclude potential chemical cues,
males spent more time in proximity to the larger gravid females and jumped more frequently towards the larger gravid females
than the smaller ones. These findings suggest that male B. andrewsi recognizes female body size, exhibits mate choice, and prefers to mate with larger females that provide greater reproductive
potential. 相似文献
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JESSE M. MEIK KIRK SETSER ESTRELLA MOCIÑO‐DELOYA A. MICHELLE LAWING 《Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London》2012,106(3):633-640
Sexual dimorphism of phenotypic traits associated with resource use is common in animals, and may result from niche divergence between sexes. Snakes have become widely used in studies of the ecological basis of sexual dimorphism because they are gape‐limited predators and their head morphology is likely to be a direct indicator of the size and shape of prey consumed. We examined sexual dimorphism of body size and head morphology, as well as sexual differences in diet, in a population of Mexican lance‐headed rattlesnakes, Crotalus polystictus, from the State of México, Mexico. The maximum snout–vent length of males was greater than that of females by 21%. Males had relatively larger heads, and differed from females in head shape after removing the effects of head size. In addition, male rattlesnakes showed positive allometry in head shape: head width was amplified, whereas snout length was truncated with increased head size. By contrast, our data did not provide clear evidence of allometry in head shape of females. Adults of both males and females ate predominately mice and voles; however, males also consumed a greater proportion of larger mammalian species, and fewer small prey species. The differences in diet correspond with dimorphism in head morphology, and provide evidence of intersexual niche divergence in the study population. However, because the sexes overlapped greatly in diet, we hypothesize that diet and head dimorphisms in C. polystictus are likely related to different selection pressures in each sex arising from pre‐existing body size differences rather than from character displacement for reducing intersexual competition. © 2012 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 106 , 633–640. 相似文献
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Sexually dimorphic weaponry often results from intrasexual selection, and weapon size can vary seasonally when costs of bearing the weapon exceed the benefits outside of the reproductive season. Weapons can also be favored in competition over nonreproductive resources such as food or shelter, and if such nonreproductive competition occurs year‐round, weapons may be less likely to vary seasonally. In snapping shrimp (Alpheus angulosus), both sexes have an enlarged snapping claw (a potentially deadly weapon), and males of many species have larger claws than females, although females are more aggressive. This contrasting sexual dimorphism (larger weaponry in males, higher aggression in females) raises the question of whether weaponry and aggression are favored by the same mechanisms in males and females. We used field data to determine whether either sex shows seasonal variation in claw size such as described above. We found sexual dimorphism increased during the reproductive season due to opposing changes in both male and female claw size. Males had larger claws during the reproductive season than during the nonreproductive season, a pattern consistent with sexual selection. Females, however, had larger claws during the nonreproductive season than during the reproductive season—a previously unknown pattern of variation in weapon size. The observed changes in female weapon size suggest a trade‐off between claw growth and reproduction in the reproductive season, with investment in claw growth primarily in the nonreproductive season. Sexually dimorphic weaponry in snapping shrimp, then, varies seasonally due to sex differences in seasonal patterns of investment in claw growth, suggesting claws may be advantageous for both sexes but in different contexts. Thus, understanding sexual dimorphisms through the lens of one sex yields an incomplete understanding of the factors favoring their evolution. 相似文献
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Christopher W. Petersen 《Environmental Biology of Fishes》1988,21(3):173-183
Synopsis In both Malacoctenus hubbsi and Malacoctenus macropus, males defended preferred oviposition sites from both other males and potential egg predators. In M. hubbsi, adult females were larger than adult males. Larger M. hubbsi males were not associated with territory parameters that were correlated with higher mating success, and male size was not correlated with mating success. Male size did affect mating success when territory parameters were statistically controlled for, but the failure of large males to associate with better territories eliminated any mating advantage for larger males. In M. macropus, males are larger than females. Larger males defended preferred oviposition sites, and had higher mating success than did smaller males. Male M. macropus also had much higher site fidelity than male M. hubbsi. These results suggest that the evolution of the differences in site fidelity and sexual size dimorphism between these two species may be due to sexual selection acting differentially in these two species. 相似文献
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Toshiya Masumoto 《Journal of Insect Behavior》1999,12(3):353-361
Field observations and laboratory experiments were conducted to assess the relation between male size and reproductive success in the funnel-web spider, Agelena limbata Thorell (Agelenidae), in 2 years. In this species, the body size of males is similar to that of females. In the field, size assortative mating occurred in both years. In 1 year, partial correlation coefficient analysis indicates that male cephalothorax width is a beter predictor of the copulated female cephalothorax width than of the date of pairing. In laboratory experiments, females tended to reject courting males that were smaller in relative body size, and males that were larger in relative body size had greater copulation success. Consequently female rejection of smaller courting males has some contribution to size assortative mating. Since larger females deposited more numerous eggs in the field, larger males are expected to have a higher reproductive success. 相似文献
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Sex‐specific phenotypic plasticity in response to the trade‐off between developmental time and body size supports the dimorphic niche hypothesis
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Katja Rohde Elena Dreher Axel Hochkirch 《Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London》2015,115(1):48-57
Female‐biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is widespread in many invertebrate taxa. One hypothesis for the evolution of SSD is the dimorphic niche hypothesis, which states that SSD evolved in response to the different sexual reproductive roles. While females benefit from a larger body size by producing more or larger eggs, males benefit from a faster development, which allows them to fertilize virgin females (protandry). To test this hypothesis, we studied the influence of temperature and intraspecific density on the development of Chorthippus montanus. We reared them in monosexual groups under different conditions and measured adult body size, wing length, nymphal mortality, and development time. The present study revealed an inverse temperature–size relationship: body size increased with increasing temperature in both sexes. Furthermore, we found intersexual differences in the phenotypic response to population density, supporting the dimorphic niches hypothesis. At a lower temperature, female development time increased and male body size decreased with increasing density. Because there was no food limitation, we conclude that interference competition hampered development. By contrast to expectations, mortality decreased with increasing density, suggesting that interference did not negatively affect survival. The present study shows that sex‐specific niche optima may be a major trigger of sexual dimorphisms. © 2015 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2015, 115 , 48–57. 相似文献
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Ecological context generates interspecific variation in mating behavior by imposing differential constraints on the action of sexual selection, but operation of these constraints in nature is not well understood. We used field and laboratory studies to examine the importance of body size and size of sexually dimorphic appendages, the gnathopods, for pairing success in two freshwater amphipod species within the Hyalella azteca species complex. We focused on a large-bodied species found in habitats where ecological factors tend to favor large body size, and a small-bodied species in habitats where small body size is favored by size-selective predation. A field study indicated that although male pairing success was greater for larger males in both species, pairing success increased throughout the range of variation in male size in the large species, whereas, in the small species, pairing success was low for smaller individuals, but roughly constant across intermediate to larger sizes. A laboratory mate choice experiment was consistent with the field study, finding that females of the large species exhibited a preference for larger males that was independent of absolute male size, but females of the small species were indifferent when choosing between males of intermediate to larger size. Species also differed in the direction of sexual size dimorphism in the field, with males being the larger sex in the large species but the smaller sex in the small species, a pattern consistent with the species differences in mate preference. Large gnathopod size relative to body size was associated with enhanced pairing success across all body sizes for the large species, but, in the small species, large gnathopod size enhanced pairing success only in smaller males. Species differences in mating behavior appear consistent with change driven by differing forms of the interaction between sexual and natural selection. 相似文献
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Variation in reproductive success is most pronounced in species with strongly biased operational sex ratios, prominent sexual
dimorphisms, and where mate competition and choice are likely. We studied sexual selection in eastern tiger salamanders (Ambystoma t. tigrinum) and examined the role of body size on reproductive success. We genotyped 155 adults and 1,341 larvae from 90 egg masses
at six microsatellite loci. Parentage analyses revealed both sexes engaged in multiple matings, but was more common among
females (64%) than males (27%). However, the standardized variance in mating and reproductive success was higher in males.
Bateman gradients were significant and nearly identical in both sexes, suggesting that sexual selection was roughly equal
between sexes. Body size was not correlated with mating or reproductive success in either sex. The apparent lack of sexual
selection on body size may be a result of sperm storage, sperm competition, alternative mating tactics, and/or random induction
of spermatophores. 相似文献