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Abstract:

Size advantage in male-male competition over mates, combined with male preference over large females, is a common feature that can drive to size assortative mating and, eventually, sexual selection. In crabs, appendage autotomy can affect assortative mating and opportunity for sexual selection by affecting size advantage in mating contests. In this work, we evaluate the effect of size and appendage autotomy in generating assortative mating in the mud crab Cyrtograpsus angulatus. Field observations of guarding pairs in two different populations show a positive correlation between carapace width of males and females in both the populations. In one of the populations, incidence of appendage autotomy was low and the variability in the size of reproductive males was lower than the variability in the size of randomly collected males (i.e. only larger males were successful in getting a female), whereas there was no differences in the other population (i.e. most male sizes were successful) where the incidence of appendage autotomy was very high, indicating that the importance of size is higher when the incidence of autotomy is low. In this context, experiments (in both populations) show that, in contests for a female, larger males outcompete smaller ones only when they had intact appendages. When males had missing chelipeds, winning or loosing against smaller males was random. This may lead to a decrease in the importance of male size in populations with high incidence of cheliped autotomy, affecting assortative mating and opportunity for selection and, thus, affecting selective pressures. © 2008 Springer-Verlag.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:The effect of size and cheliped autotomy on sexual competition between males of the mud crab Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana
Autor:Daleo, P.; Luppi, T.; Mendez Casariego, A.; Escapa, M.; Ribeiro, P.; Silva, P.; Iribarne, O.
Filiación:Departamento de Biología (FCEyN), Universidad Nacional de Mar Del Plata, Funes 3250, CC 573 Correo Central, Mar del Plata B7600WAG, Argentina
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía (IADO), Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Idioma: Inglés
Palabras clave:assortative mating; autotomy; crab; intrasexual interaction; intraspecific competition; mating behavior; size effect; Cyrtograpsus angulatus; Decapoda (Crustacea)
Año:2009
Volumen:156
Número:3
Página de inicio:269
Página de fin:275
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-008-1081-1
Título revista:Marine Biology
Título revista abreviado:Mar. Biol.
ISSN:00253162
CODEN:MBIOA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00253162_v156_n3_p269_Daleo

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Citas:

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Daleo, P., Luppi, T., Mendez Casariego, A., Escapa, M., Ribeiro, P., Silva, P. & Iribarne, O. (2009) . The effect of size and cheliped autotomy on sexual competition between males of the mud crab Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana. Marine Biology, 156(3), 269-275.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-008-1081-1
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Daleo, P., Luppi, T., Mendez Casariego, A., Escapa, M., Ribeiro, P., Silva, P., et al. "The effect of size and cheliped autotomy on sexual competition between males of the mud crab Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana" . Marine Biology 156, no. 3 (2009) : 269-275.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-008-1081-1
---------- MLA ----------
Daleo, P., Luppi, T., Mendez Casariego, A., Escapa, M., Ribeiro, P., Silva, P., et al. "The effect of size and cheliped autotomy on sexual competition between males of the mud crab Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana" . Marine Biology, vol. 156, no. 3, 2009, pp. 269-275.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-008-1081-1
---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Daleo, P., Luppi, T., Mendez Casariego, A., Escapa, M., Ribeiro, P., Silva, P., et al. The effect of size and cheliped autotomy on sexual competition between males of the mud crab Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana. Mar. Biol. 2009;156(3):269-275.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-008-1081-1