Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
9 - Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Evolutionary perspectives on insect mating
- 2 Sexual selection by cryptic female choice in insects and arachnids
- 3 Natural and sexual selection components of odonate mating patterns
- 4 Sexual selection in resource defense polygyny: lessons from territorial grasshoppers
- 5 Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
- 6 The evolution of edible ‘sperm sacs’ and other forms of courtship feeding in crickets, katydids and their kin (Orthoptera: Ensifera)
- 7 The evolution of mating systems in the Zoraptera: mating variations and sexual conflicts
- 8 The evolution of water strider mating systems: causes and consequences of sexual conflicts
- 9 Multiple mating, sperm competition, and cryptic female choice in the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- 10 Firefly mating ecology, selection and evolution
- 11 Modern mating systems in archaic Holometabola: sexuality in neuropterid insects
- 12 Mating systems of parasitoid wasps
- 13 Fig–associated wasps: pollinators and parasites, sex–ratio adjustment and male polymorphism, population structure and its consequences
- 14 Evolution of mate–signaling in moths: phylogenetic considerations and predictions from the asymmetric tracking hypothesis
- 15 Sexual dimorphism, mating systems and ecology in butterflies
- 16 Lek behavior of insects
- 17 Mate choice and species isolation in swarming insects
- 18 Function and evolution of antlers and eye stalks in flies
- 19 Sex via the substrate: mating systems and sexual selection in pseudoscorpions
- 20 Jumping spider mating strategies: sex among cannibals in and out of webs
- 21 Sexual conflict and the evolution of mating systems
- Organism index
- Subject index
Summary
ABSTRACT
In the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) males and females mate with multiple partners and form prolonged associations that last for hours or even days. In some species, males exhibit elaborate courtship behaviors while riding on females' backs before, during, or after insemination. Females often respond to copulation attempts by positioning their abdomens out of reach of the male's genitalia or by kicking males with their legs. Examination of internal events suggests that females control the ability of males to fully evert their genitalia and inseminate. Females of some species also emit sperm during or after copulation. Experimental work indicates that the spermathecal muscle plays a role in sperm retention and fertilization of eggs, suggesting that females control emission and retention of the male's sperm. Comprehensive analysis of the fitness consequences of prolonged and multiple mating has not been attempted for any species in the Chrysomelidae. Although mateguarding appears to be one important function of prolonged pairing, prolonged pairing can increase proportional paternity even when it does not reduce the likelihood of remating by the female. An intriguing body of evidence suggests that cryptic female choice may occur in the leaf beetles, where females accept, retain, and use sperm of males of preferred phenotypes. The hypothesis that females exert postmating female choice by manipulating retention and use of sperm should occupy significant numbers of behavioral ecologists in the coming decade.
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- The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids , pp. 164 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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