link.springer.com

Search costs influence the spatial distribution, but not the level, of extra-pair mating in tree swallows - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

  • ️Whittingham, Linda A.
  • ️Sat Oct 07 2006

  • Arnqvist G, Kirkpatrick M (2005) The evolution of infidelity in socially monogamous passerines: the strength of direct and indirect selection on extrapair copulation behavior in females. Am Nat 165:S26–S237

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Barber C, Robertson R, Boag P (1996) The high frequency of extra-pair paternity in tree swallows is not an artifact of nestboxes. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 38:425–430

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Beath KJ (1997) GLMstat user manual version 3.1. K.J. Beath, Sydney

  • Buchholz R (2004) Effects of parasitic infection on mate sampling by female wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo): should infected females be more or less choosy? Behav Ecol 15:687–694

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Byers JA, Wiseman PA, Jones L, Roffe TJ (2005) A large cost of female mate sampling in pronghorn. Am Nat 166:661–668

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Crossman CC (1996) Single locus DNA profiling in the tree swallow Tachycineta bicolor: a comparison of methods. MSc Thesis, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

    Google Scholar 

  • Crowley PH, Travers SE, Linton MC, Cohn SL, Sih AS, Sargent CR (1991) Mate density, predation risk and the seasonal sequence of mate choices: a dynamic game. Am Nat 137:567–596

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dawson D, Hanotte O, Greig C, Stewart I, Burke T (2000) Polymorphic microsatellites in the blue tit Parus caeruleus and their cross-species utility in 20 songbird families. Mol Ecol 9:1941–1943

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Dunn PO, Whittingham LA (2005) Radio-tracking of female tree swallows prior to egg-laying. J Field Ornithol 76:259–263

    Google Scholar 

  • Dunn PO, Robertson R, Michaud-Freeman D, Boag P (1994a) Extra-pair paternity in tree swallows: why do females copulate with more than one male? Behav Ecol Sociobiol 35:273–281

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dunn PO, Whittingham LA, Lifjeld JT, Robertson RJ, Boag PT (1994b) Effects of breeding density, synchrony and experience on extra-pair paternity in tree swallows. Behav Ecol 5:123–129

    Google Scholar 

  • Ellegren H, Lifjeld J, Slagsvold T, Primmer C (1995) Handicapped males and extra-pair paternity in pied flycatchers: a study using microsatellite markers. Mol Ecol 4:739–744

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibson RM, Bachman GC (1992) The costs of female choice in a lekking bird. Behav Ecol 3:300–309

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibson RM, Langen TA (1996) How do animals choose their mates? Trends Ecol Evol 11:468–470

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goodnight KF, Queller DC (1999) Computer software for performing likelihood tests of pedigree relationship using genetic markers. Mol Ecol 8:1231–1234

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hedrick A, Dill L (1993) Mate choice by female crickets is influenced by predation risk. Anim Behav 46:193–196

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Houle D, Kondrashov AS (2002) Coevolution of costly mate choice and condition-dependent display of good genes. Proc R Soc Lond B 269:97–104

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hunt J, Brooks R, Jennions MD (2005) Female mate choice as a condition-dependent life-history trait. Am Nat 166:79–92

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hussell D (1983) Age and plumage color in female tree swallows. J Field Ornithol 54:312–318

    Google Scholar 

  • Jennions MD, Petrie M (1997) Variation in mate choice and mating preferences: a review of causes and consequences. Biol Rev 72:283–327

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kempenaers B, Everding S, Bishop C, Boag P, Robertson R (2001) Extra-pair paternity and the reproductive role of male floaters in the tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 49:251–259

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kirkpatrick M, Barton NH (1997) The strength of indirect selection on female mating preferences. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:1282–1286

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kokko H, Brooks R, McNamara JM, Houston AI (2002) The sexual selection continuum. Proc R Soc Lond B 269:1331–1340

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kotiaho JS (2001) Costs of sexual traits: a mismatch between theoretical considerations and empirical evidence. Biol Rev 76:365–376

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lifjeld J, Robertson R (1992) Female control of extra-pair fertilizations in tree swallows. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 31:89–96

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Martinez JG, Soler JJ, Soler M, Møller AP, Burke T (1999) Comparative population structure and gene flow of a brood parasite, the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius), and its primary host, the magpie (Pica pica). Evolution 53:269–278

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McDonald D, Potts W (1994) Cooperative display and relatedness among males in a lek mating bird. Science 266:1030–1032

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Milinski M, Bakker TCM (1992) Costs influence sequential mate choice in sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus. Proc R Soc Lond B 250:229–233

    Google Scholar 

  • Nooker JK, Dunn PO, Whittingham LA (2005) Effects of food abundance, weather and female condition on reproductive success in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Auk 122:1225–1238

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Primmer C, Møller A, Ellegren H (1995) Resolving genetic relationships with mirosatellite markers: a parentage testing system for the swallow Hirundo rustica. Mol Ecol 4:493–498

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Real L (1990) Search theory and mate choice. I. Models of single-sex discrimination. Am Nat 136:376–405

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Robertson RJ, Stutchbury BJ, Cohen RR (1992) Tree swallow. In: Poole A, Gill F (eds) Birds of North America, vol. 11. American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, DC

    Google Scholar 

  • Stenzler L (2001) Genetic population structure in two bird species with contrasting dispersal behavior: the tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) and the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens). MSc Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Syriatowicz A, Brooks R (2004) Sexual responsiveness is condition-dependent in female guppies, but preference functions are not. BMC Ecol 4:5

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Venier L, Dunn P, Lifjeld J, Robertson R (1993) Behavioural patterns of extra-pair copulation in tree swallows. Anim Behav 45:412–415

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whittingham L, Dunn P (2001) Survival of extrapair and within-pair young in tree swallows. Behav Ecol 12:496–500

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whittingham L, Dunn P, Robertson R (1994) Female response to reduced male parental care in birds: an experiment in tree swallows. Ethology 96:260–269

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whittingham LA, Dunn PO, Nooker JK (2005) Maternal influences on brood sex ratios: an experimental study in tree swallows. Proc R Soc Lond B 272:1775–1780

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whittingham LA, Dunn PO, Stapleton MK (2006) Repeatability of extra-pair mating in tree swallows. Mol Ecol 15:841–849

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Winkler DW, Allen PE (1995) Effects of handicapping on female condition and reproduction in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Auk 112:737–747

    Google Scholar 

  • Wong BBM, Jennions MD (2003) Costs influence male mate choice in a freshwater fish. Biol Lett 270:S36–S38

    Google Scholar 

  • Zuk M, Kim T, Robinson SI, Johnsen TS (1998) Parasites influence social rank and morphology, but not mate choice, in female red junglefowl, Gallus gallus. Anim Behav 56:493–499

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar