كتاب
Etude comparée du comportement de cour de Triturus alpestris alpestris (Laurenti, 1768) et Triturus alpestris cyreni (Wolterstorff, 1932) : approche évolutive.
| العنوان: | Etude comparée du comportement de cour de Triturus alpestris alpestris (Laurenti, 1768) et Triturus alpestris cyreni (Wolterstorff, 1932) : approche évolutive. A comparative study of courtship behaviour of Triturus alpestris alpestris (Laurenti, 1768) and Triturus alpestris cyreni (Wolterstorff, 1932) : an evolutionary perspective |
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| المؤلفون: | Denoël, Mathieu |
| بيانات النشر: | Belgique, Liège : Cahiers d'Ethologie, 1996. |
| سنة النشر: | 1996 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Courtship behaviour, Behavior, Evolution, Geographic variation, Biogeography, Species concept, Alpine newt, Mesotriton alpestris cyreni, Triturus, Spain, Belgium, Picos de Europa, Sexual behaviour, Sexual behavior, Ichthyosaura alpestris cyreni, Motivation, Subspecies differentiation, Ice age, Differentiation, Life sciences :: Zoology, Sciences du vivant :: Zoologie, Social & behavioral sciences, psychology :: Animal psychology, ethology & psychobiology, Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie :: Psychologie animale, éthologie & psychobiologie, Life sciences :: Multidisciplinary, general & others, Sciences du vivant :: Multidisciplinaire, généralités & autres |
| الوصف: | The species concept in the animal world is very abstract. With diverse methods scientists try to place boundaries between species. But this is generally theoretical. Indeed species are in continuous evolution, located more regularly between two evolutionary categories than inside a well-defined one. In this study we are interested by the courtship of two allopatric subspecies of the Alpine newt, Triturus alpestris alpestris and T. a. cyreni. We investigate the behaviour of two closely related taxa, in experimental conditions, to display the basis of behaviour evolution and isolating mechanisms prominently.We have identified 24 behaviours in the male display and principally 3 in the female (negative, static, positive). Sexual encounter will be divided in four stages: orientation during which animals are meeting, fan and lean-in exhibition phases during which the male displays and the spermatophore transfer sequence where the male deposits a spermatophore and displays also. The qualitative differences between subspecies are weak and concern principally amplitude of movements. From a qualitative level some differences were underlined. So T. a. alpestris touches the female with its snout frequently, whereas T. a. cyreni whips more often. The two subspecies do not use the same tactic with a non-responsive female. Indeed the T. a. alpestris male can easily enter in spermatophore transfer phase without the positive response of female. In order to attract the latter, he executes worm-like movements: in this way he lures a negative female. On the contrary, T. a. cyreni rarely deposits a spermatophore when the female is not receptive. It therefore makes very little use of the lure system. The analysis of male behaviours in relation with female response have allowed us to establish a model which assumes that some behaviours are exhibited by the male only when its motivation and that of the female go beyond a particular level.Some stereotyped behaviours (e.g. distal fan) concern movements whose amplitude is variable. We think that this movement modulation could be the foundation of a behaviour evolution and isolating mechanism. The female is indeed sensitive to these variations: in this way communication is possible between transmitter and receiver. The new variants problem is thus resolved. The fanning frequencies vary with temperature. They are weak at low temperatures. We consider this modulation as an adaptation to extreme and unpredictable habitats, e.g. in high altitude lakes and temporary ponds.The observed behavioural differences are in a lower level than between separate species, like T. helveticus and T. vulgaris. Moreover sperm transfer is likely between the two taxa. In conclusion the present data confirm the existence of two distinct subspecies T. a. alpestris and T. a. cyreni as detected by previous authors using allozyme and osteological analysis. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book |
| وصف الملف: | 133-258 |
| اللغة: | French |
| Relation: | Cahiers d'Ethologie 16-2 (Collection Enquêtes et Dossiers 21) |
| URL الوصول: | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/1644 |
| حقوق: | This is the published version of a MSc. Thesis (September 1995). info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsorb.1644 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ORBi |
| الوصف غير متاح. |