Nuptial gifts of male spiders: sensory exploitation of the
female's maternal care instinct or foraging motivation?

J 2007

Nuptial gifts of male spiders: sensory exploitation of the female's maternal care instinct or foraging motivation?

BILDE, Trine, Cristina TUNI, Rehab ELSAYED, Stanislav PEKÁR, Soeren TOFT et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Nuptial gifts of male spiders: sensory exploitation of the female's maternal care instinct or foraging motivation?

Name in Czech

Svatební dar u samců pavouků: smyslové využívání samičího mateřského instinktu anebo motiva k lovu

Authors

BILDE, Trine (208 Denmark), Cristina TUNI (380 Italy), Rehab ELSAYED (818 Egypt), Stanislav PEKÁR (703 Slovakia, guarantor) and Soeren TOFT (208 Denmark)

Edition

Animal Behaviour, Academic Press, 2007, 0003-3472

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.752

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/07:00022037

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000244297700005

Keywords in English

nuptil gifts; pisaura; sexual selection

Abstract

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V originále

Nuptial feeding can evolve as sensory traps where the male exploits the female's foraging motivation in a sexual context. The nuptial prey gift of the nursery-web spider Pisaura mirabilis is wrapped in white silk, and it has been suggested that males initially exploit the maternal care instinct by producing a nuptial gift that resembles the female's eggsac. In mating experiments we examined whether males exploit the female's foraging motivation or the female's maternal care instinct. We carried out a gift-switching experiment, where males presented an eggsac, a wrapped fly or an unwrapped fly as nuptial gifts. Females fed on eggsacs as well as on prey gifts. Mating success was similar for males with both wrapped and unwrapped gifts, indicating that wrapping per se does not increase male mating success.

In Czech

Krmení samic prostřednictvím svatebního daru se mohlo vyvinout jako smyslová past, kterou samci využívají samičí motivaci k lovu....

Links

MSM0021622416, plan (intention)

Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time

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