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- Title
Impacts of flight distance on sex ratio and resource allocation to offspring in the leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata.
- Authors
Peterson, Jason H.; Roitberg, Bernard D.
- Abstract
Fisher's theoretical prediction of equal investment in each sex for a panmictic population ( The genetical theory of natural selection. Clarendon, Oxford, 1930) can be altered by a number of factors. For example, the sex ratio theory predicts variation in equal investment in each sex when the maternal fitness gains from increased investment differ between sexes. Changing sex allocation because of changing payoffs may result from different ecological situations, such as foraging conditions. We investigated the impact of foraging travel cost on relative investment in sons vs daughters. Field studies were carried out with the central-place-foraging leafcutter bee Megachile rotundata (Fabricius), which has smaller males than females. Therefore, less investment is required to produce a viable son compared with a daughter. We found that with increased flight distance to resources, females produced a greater proportion of sons. Females also invested fewer resources in individual sons and daughters and produced fewer offspring with increased flight distance.
- Subjects
FISHES; INSECT sex ratio; SEX allocation; POPULATION; AQUATIC habitats; HABITAT selection; HABITATS; ECOLOGY; FORAGING behavior
- Publication
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 2006, Vol 59, Issue 5, p589
- ISSN
0340-5443
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00265-005-0085-9