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Elevated temperatures have sex-specific effects on nuptial gift behavior.
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- Facultative polyandry under heat stress and the evolutionary potential for climate-driven shifts in mating systems.Heredity · 2025Article
- Elevated temperatures have sex-specific effects on nuptial gift behavior.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Increasing developmental temperatures are well-known to impact fertility, yet their effects on pre-copulatory behaviors, despite having clear fitness consequences, are often overlooked. In many species, male nuptial gift presentation during courtship plays an important role in sex-specific mate choice, fitness and subsequent co-evolutionary dynamics. However, developmental temperature effects on nuptial gift behaviors and their implications for population fitness remain unknown. Heat-induced changes to male behavior may signal fertility, diving female discrimination, particularly in monandrous systems where exclusively pairing with an infertile male threatens population growth. Additionally, as nuptial gift production is costly, the differential allocation hypothesis suggests males should adjust gift investment based on female fitness. Here, we investigated how elevated developmental temperature affects nuptial gift behavior, mating likelihood and reproductive output in the monandrous species
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