The frequent interruption of male courtship in highly crowded mass-rearing cages of Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) was correlated with changes in both male courtship and female acceptance criteria in a mass-reared Costa Rican strain, in accord with previous studies of other strains. Abbreviation of courtship behavior by mass-reared males was associated with the loss of the wild-type female tendency to reject males that performed shorter courtships. Consideration of probable costs and benefits of female choice in mass-rearing cages suggests that inadvertant selection in the cages probably favored the change in female criteria because females obtained sons with more effective courtship behavior.
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1 March 2000
Possible Fisherian Changes in Female Mate-Choice Criteria in a Mass-Reared Strain of Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)
R. D. Briceño,
William G. Eberhard
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Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Vol. 93 • No. 2
March 2000
Vol. 93 • No. 2
March 2000
Ceratitis capitata
courtship
Fisherian sexual selection
mass-rearing
Mediterranean fruit fly