USE OF NON-ARBITRARY ACOUSTIC CRITERIA IN MATE CHOICE BY FEMALE GRAY TREE FROGS
USE OF NON-ARBITRARY ACOUSTIC CRITERIA IN MATE CHOICE BY FEMALE GRAY TREE FROGS
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DOI：
10.1038/326286a0
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发表时间：
1987-03-19
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
GERHARDT, HC
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作者：
KLUMP, GM;GERHARDT, HC
女性选择的进化意义是有争议的1。问题的核心是女性在选择潜在性伴侣时所使用的机制和标准。例如，女性仅仅对与男性状况或质量无关的明显表现做出反应，既不会产生评估成本，也不会获得超过随机交配的好处。在这里，我们表明，女性灰树蛙的选择性phonotaxis依赖于非任意的声学线索，表明男性的物种和精力充沛的成本信号的生产。此外，一些女性的偏好不能单独用信号显著性（声能）的差异来解释。女性显然受益于拒绝遗传不兼容，异性恋男性，这可以单独通过脉搏率识别。女性也选择同种男性之间的基础上的呼叫持续时间，这是与男性的精力充沛的投资在求爱，并可能表明他的身体状况和健身。
The evolutionary significance of female choice is controversial1. Central to the issue are the mechanisms and criteria used by females to choose among potential sexual partners. For example, females merely responding to conspicuous displays that are uncorrelated with male condition or quality would neither incur costs of assessment nor gain benefits over and above random mating2. Here we show that selective phonotaxis by female gray tree frogs depends on non-arbitrary acoustic cues that indicate the male's species and energetic costs of signal production. Furthermore, some female preferences cannot be explained by differences in signal conspicuousness (acoustic energy) alone. Females obviously benefit by rejecting genetically incompatible, heterospecific males, which can be identified solely by pulse rate. Females also select among conspecific males on the basis of call duration, which is correlated with a male's energetic investment in courtship and probably indicates his physical condition and fitness.