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Previous mating experience increases fighting success during male-male contests in the hermit crab Pagurus nigrofascia
| Title: | Previous mating experience increases fighting success during male-male contests in the hermit crab Pagurus nigrofascia |
| Authors: | Yasuda, Chiaki I. Browse this author | | Matsuo, Kento Browse this author | | Wada, Satoshi Browse this author |
| Keywords: | Copulation experience | | Competitive ability | | Male mating success | | Pagurus hermit crab |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2015 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Journal Title: | Behavioral ecology and sociobiology |
| Volume: | 69 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Start Page: | 1287 |
| End Page: | 1292 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1007/s00265-015-1941-x |
| Abstract: | Prior social experience often affects subsequent competitive interactions and their outcomes. Although the effects of prior contest experience have been widely examined, effects of mating experience remain less well examined. We examined, in males of the hermit crab Pagurus nigrofascia, whether males successively copulated with more than one female and whether males with copulation experience differed in their subsequent contest behaviors and probability of winning in male-male contests compared to males without copulation experience. The copulation experience of intruders was manipulated and the contest behaviors compared between mated and unmated groups. Males mated with several females regardless of the male body size. Compared with unmated intruders, intruders with mating experience succeeded more often in taking over females and did so within a shorter period particularly when the male-male contests occurred over females with a long time to molt. These results suggest that mated males of P. nigrofascia overestimate the female quality and/or enhance the competitive performance similar to the "winner effect" that is a positive feedback from prior winning experience to future contests. |
| Rights: | The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-1941-x |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/62579 |
| Appears in Collections: | 水産科学院・水産科学研究院 (Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences / Faculty of Fisheries Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 和田 哲
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