ArticleScience advances2019
Adaptive switch to sexually dimorphic movements by partner-seeking termites.
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- Extinct and extant termites reveal the fidelity of behavior fossilization in amber.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- A guide to area-restricted search: a foundational foraging behaviour.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Social encounters produce different autonomic response between dominants and subordinates in crows.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Coordination of movement via complementary interactions of leaders and followers in termite mating pairs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Sediment availability provokes a shift from Brownian to Lévy-like clonal expansion in a dune building grass.Ecology letters · 2021Article
- Revealing the structure of information flows discriminates similar animal social behaviors.eLife · 2020Article
- Courtship Behavior Confusion in Two Subterranean Termite Species that Evolved in Allopatry (Blattodea, Rhinotermitidae, Coptotermes).Journal of chemical ecology · 2020Article
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Abstract
How should females and males move to search for partners whose exact location is unknown? Theory predicts that the answer depends on what they know about where targets can be found, raising the question of how actual animals update their mate search patterns to increase encounter probability when conditions change. Here, we show that termites adaptively alternate between sexually monomorphic and dimorphic movements during mate search. When the location of potential mates was completely unpredictable, both sexes moved in straight lines to explore widely. In contrast, when the stray partner was at least nearby, males moved while females paused. Data-based simulations confirmed that these movements increase the rate of successful encounters. The context-dependent switch of search modes is a key to enhance random encounters.
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