Sexual harassment as a cost for molly females: Bigger males cost less

By Ingo Schlupp, Ryan Mc Knab, Michael J. Ryan, Martin-Luther-King Platz. 2001

96 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Marco Dadda
2. Angelo Bisazza
3. O. Fincke
4. Stefano Benetton
5. A. Pilastro
6. Ingo Schlupp

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. O. Fincke
2. Stefano Benetton
3. Angelo Bisazza
4. A. Pilastro

In Global and Planetary Change

1. O. Fincke
2. Angelo Bisazza
3. Ingo Schlupp
4. Marco Dadda

Citations in the corpus

• Female aggregation and male competition reduce costs of sexual harassment in the mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki (2003, background): “Reduced feeding efficiency in the presence of males has also been reported for another poeciliid, the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna ( Schlupp et al. 2001 ).”
• Sexual selection in darkness? Female mating preferences in surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies, Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) (2004, background): “The preference for larger males in the river-dwelling population can be explained in the context of sexual harassment (Magurran and Seghers 1994; Schlupp et al. 2001; Plath et al. 2003a).”
• Sexual harassment in live-bearing fishes (Poeciliidae): comparing courting and noncourting species (2007, background): “…in the presence of a harassing male (Poeciliidae: guppy, P. reticulata: Magurran and Seghers 1994; Griffiths 1996; sailfin molly, P. latipinna: Schlupp et al. 2001; Atlantic molly, P. mexicana: Plath et al. 2003; mosquito fish, G. holbrooki: Pilastro et al. 2003; Goodeidae: dark-edged…”
• Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend to a harassing male simultaneously (2006, background): “The intense sexual activity of males bears several potential costs to the female, the most widely studied being the interference with female’s foraging efficiency (Griffiths, 1996; Magurran and Seghers, 1994a,b; Schlupp et al., 2001 ).”
• Male sexual harassment and female schooling behaviour in the eastern mosquitofish (2005, unknown): “Such intense sexual activity of males is costly to the female in terms of conspicuousness to predators (Magurran & Seghers 1994a; Pocklington & Dill 1995; Houde 1997) and foraging efficiency (Magurran & Seghers 1994b; Griffiths 1996; Schlupp et al. 2001; Pilastro et al. 2003).”
• The role of sexual harassment in cave and surface dwelling populations of the Atlantic molly, Poecilia mexicana (Poeciliidae, Teleostei) (2003, background): “latipinna females was significantly lower only in the presence of small males, but not in the presence of large males (Schlupp et al. 2001).”
• Polymorphic signals of harassed female odonates and the males that learn them support a novel frequency-dependent model (2004, methodology): “The general LMR hypothesis is applicable to any taxon for which sexual attention (towards either sex) carries a significant net cost (e.g. Holland & Rice 1999; Moore et al. 2001; Schlupp et al. 2001) or benefit (i.”