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Reproductive benefits and reduced investment in parental care behavior associated with reproductive groups of males in Abudefduf troschelii

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العنوان: Reproductive benefits and reduced investment in parental care behavior associated with reproductive groups of males in Abudefduf troschelii
المؤلفون: Mariana Solís-Mendoza, Omar Chassin-Noria, Carlos Levi Pérez Hernández, Luis Mendoza-Cuenca
المصدر: PeerJ, Vol 11, p e15804 (2023)
بيانات النشر: PeerJ Inc., 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Biology (General)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mating system, Breeding colony, Pomacentridae, Parental care, Reproductive success, Abudefduf, Medicine, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
الوصف: Fishes of the family Pomacentridae present a wide diversity of mating systems, ranging from polygyny to promiscuity and from individual territorial defense to the establishment of reproductive colonies of males. The damselfish species Abudefduf troschelii has a reproductive colony mating system, in which males temporarily aggregate in reproductive areas to court and attract females. Males defend an individual territory where they receive eggs and perform paternal care behaviors for their offspring. The present study evaluated the advantages of the colonial mating system in A. troschelii. During an entire reproductive period, in a breeding colony within a rocky reef, we located, marked, geo-referenced, and measured the distances between the territories of all males. We quantified the variance among males in their patterns of paternal care investment, eggs acquired, hatching success, reproductive success, body size, and changes in body coloration. We found that males spatially distributed their nests in groups or independently (i.e., solitary nests). Nesting groups are formed by larger males that show intense nuptial coloration during the entire receptivity period. They are located centrally to the colony and consist of three to six males whose territories overlap. In contrast, small solitary males that fail to acquire or maintain nuptial coloration during the receptivity period establish their nests peripherally to the colony, away from the territories of other males. Our results highlight that the reproductive benefits of colonial nesting are unequal for males, as the spatial distribution of nests within the colony determines the reproductive success of males. Group nesting confers the highest reproductive benefits to males regarding eggs obtained, hatching success, and relative fitness and also enables males to reduce their parental investment in brood care behaviors. The preference of females for oviposition could be associated with greater intrasexual competitiveness, defense ability, body condition, or experience of group-nesting males located at the center of the colony or because their progeny will have a lower probability of predation than they would in solitary nests males.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2167-8359
Relation: https://peerj.com/articles/15804.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/15804/; https://doaj.org/toc/2167-8359
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15804
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/f8cdeab1c67a41b8abafff72b17cbe53
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.f8cdeab1c67a41b8abafff72b17cbe53
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:21678359
DOI:10.7717/peerj.15804