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Effect of larval food stress on male adult behaviour,morphology and reproductive investment in the butterfly Pararge aegeria

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Vande Velde, Lesley [UCL] Schtickzelle, Nicolas [UCL] Van Dyck, Hans [UCL]

Males of several animals increase their reproductive success by territorial behaviour. In butterflies, males may defend a territory (i.e., territorial perching tactic), but this is assumed to be an energetically costly way to locate mates. Limitations of the energy budget may affect fight performance, and may, consequently, force males to adopt an alternative non-territorial searching behaviour (i.e., patrolling tactic) to maximize reproductive success. In this study, we tested to what extent behavioural tactics adopted by adult males of the butterfly Pararge aegeria (L.) were affected by the nutritional conditions during the larval stage. We compared the occurrence of territorial versus patrolling behaviour, lipid mass, flight muscle ratio, metabolic rate and spermatophore production of low quality males that were reared as a larva on drought-stressed host plants and control, high quality males. Low quality males were less likely to adopt the territorial perching tactic and emerged as adults with lower lipid mass than high quality males, but they were able to restore their lipid mass through adult feeding (and perhaps the breakdown of flight muscles). Host plant quality also affected spermatophore size. Independent of the larval food treatment, territorial perching males metabolised more lipids than non-territorial males, produced larger spermatophores and copulated for longer than males adopting non-territorial behaviour. We discuss the results relative to the co-existence of the behavioural tactics (perching and patrolling).

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2013
Language Anglais
Journal information "Evolutionary Ecology" - Vol. 27, no. 1, p. 221-234 (2013)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer Netherlands ((Netherlands) Dordrecht)
issn 0269-7653
e-issn 1573-8477
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIB - Biodiversity
Keywords Perching ; Patrolling ; Nutrition ; Host plant quality ; Lipids ; Spermatophore ; Alternative tactics ; Territoriality ; Mate location ; 3123
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Bibliographic reference Vande Velde, Lesley ; Schtickzelle, Nicolas ; Van Dyck, Hans. Effect of larval food stress on male adult behaviour,morphology and reproductive investment in the butterfly Pararge aegeria. In: Evolutionary Ecology, Vol. 27, no. 1, p. 221-234 (2013)
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