Energetically costly precopulatory mate guarding in the amphipod Gammarus pulex: causes and consequences

By S. Plaistow, L. Bollache, Frank Cézilly. 2003

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Evolutionary ecology of social and sexual systems : crustaceans as model organisms (2007, background): “For example, unpaired Gammarus pulex males had lower energy reserves than did paired males in a natural population (Plaistow et al. 2003), and because males had the potential to replenish energy reserves while”
Extra-pair paternity in the monogamous alpine marmot (Marmota marmota): the roles of social setting and female mate choice (2006, background): “We therefore suggest that as the number of subordinate males increased, dominant males expended more time and energy keeping control over subordinates and consequently lost control over males from outside the family and/or became unable to guard their mate (mate guarding being costly, Komdeur 2001; ”
Mate guarding, male attractiveness, and paternity under social monogamy (2005, background): “…guarding has been studied much more extensively in crustaceans and in insects than in vertebrates (e.g., Carroll, 1993; Grafen and Ridley, 1983; Härdling et al., 2004, Jablonski and Vepsäläinen, 1995; Jivoff and Hines, 1998; Jormalainen, 1998; Mathews, 2002; Parker, 1974; Plaistow et al., 2003).”