Subsociality and female reproductive success in a mycophagous thrips: An observational and experimental analysis
dc.contributor.author | Crespi, Bernard J. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:28:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:28:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1990-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Crespi, Bernard J.; (1990). "Subsociality and female reproductive success in a mycophagous thrips: An observational and experimental analysis." Journal of Insect Behavior 3(1): 61-74. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44947> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0892-7553 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8889 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44947 | |
dc.description.abstract | Oviparous females of the haplodiploid, facultatively viviparous thrips Elaphrothrips tuberculatus (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) guard their eggs against female conspecifics and other egg predators. The intensity of maternal defense increases with clutch size. Field and laboratory observations indicate that cannibalism by females is an important selective pressure favoring maternal care. Experimental removals of guarding females showed that egg guarding substantially increases egg survivorship and that the survivorship of undefended eggs is higher in the absence of nonguarding female conspecifics than in their presence. The fecundity of viviparous females increases with the number of eggs cannibalized. The reproductive success of oviparous females increases with body size and local food density and decreases with local density of breeding females. Social behavior may not have advanced beyond maternal care in Elaphrothrips tuberculatus because, relative to Hymenoptera, capabilities for helping relatives are few or nonexistent, and the causes of variation in female reproductive success are not influenced easily by cooperation among females . | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Thrips | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Animal Physiology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ecology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Zoology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Subsociality | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cannibalism | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Reproductive Success | en_US |
dc.title | Subsociality and female reproductive success in a mycophagous thrips: An observational and experimental analysis | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Zoology and Department of Biology, University of Michigan, 48109-1079, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44947/1/10905_2005_Article_BF01049195.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01049195 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Insect Behavior | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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