Parasites reduce attractiveness and reproductive success in male grain beetles
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Sexual characters may show the quality of a possible mate including the level of infection with parasites. Female preference for odours produced by male grain beetles that were infected by tapeworm, or uninfected, were measured. Females were found to be less attracted to the odours from parasitized males, although they were preferentially attracted to infected females.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
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Females prefer noninfected males as mates in the grain beetle Tenebrio molitor: Evidence in pre- and postcopulatory behaviours
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A study on the effects of infection by tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta on mate choice in a wild strain of grain beetle, Tenebrio molitor was conducted. The study reveals that female beetles mate multiply so both precopulatory and postcopulatory behaviours are important to sexual selection in species and when the virgin females were allowed to choose between tetrahedral males, one infected and noninfected they spent more time near and copulated more with noninfected males than infected males.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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Intraspecific nest parasitism of cavity-nesting wood ducks: costs and benefits to hosts and parasites
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Fitness benefits of intraspecific nest parasitism to hosts and parasites in precocial cavity-nesting wood ducks, Aix spons, are analyzed.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
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