PMID- 27561330
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170726
LR  - 20220318
IS  - 1471-2148 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2148 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 1
DP  - 2016 Aug 26
TI  - Socially cued developmental plasticity in web-building spiders.
PG  - 170
LID - 10.1186/s12862-016-0736-7 [doi]
LID - 170
AB  - BACKGROUND: Socially cued anticipatory plasticity (SCAP) has been proposed as a 
      widespread mechanism of adaptive life-history shifts in semelparous species with 
      extreme male mating investment. Such mating systems evolved several times 
      independently in spiders and male reproductive success should critically depend 
      on timely maturation and rapid location of a receptive and, ideally, virgin 
      female. We experimentally investigated socially cued anticipatory plasticity in 
      two sympatric, closely related Nephila species that share many components of 
      their mating systems, but differ in the degree to which male reproductive success 
      depends on mating with virgin females. Juveniles of both species were reared 
      either in the presence or absence of virgin female silk cues. We predicted strong 
      selection on socially cued plasticity in N. fenestrata in which males follow a 
      highly specialized terminal investment strategy, but expected a weaker plastic 
      response in N. senegalensis in which males lost the ability to monopolize 
      females. RESULTS: Contrary to our predictions, N. fenestrata males presented with 
      virgin female silk cues did not mature earlier than siblings reared isolated from 
      such cues. Males in N. senegalensis, however, showed a significant response to 
      female cues and matured several days earlier than control males. Plastic 
      adjustment of maturation had no effect on male size. CONCLUSIONS: Our results 
      indicate that a strong benefit of mating with virgins due to first male sperm 
      priority does not necessarily promote socially cued anticipatory plasticity. We 
      emphasize the bidirectional mode of developmental responses and suggest that this 
      form of plasticity may not only yield benefits through accelerated maturation, 
      but also by avoiding costs of precipitate maturation in the absence of female 
      cues.
FAU - Neumann, Rainer
AU  - Neumann R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6334-9934
AD  - Zoologisches Institut, Universitat Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146, 
      Hamburg, Germany. epeira@web.de.
FAU - Schneider, Jutta M
AU  - Schneider JM
AD  - Zoologisches Institut, Universitat Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146, 
      Hamburg, Germany.
LA  - eng
SI  - Dryad/10.5061/dryad.7117c
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160826
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Evol Biol
JT  - BMC evolutionary biology
JID - 100966975
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Cues
MH  - Female
MH  - Male
MH  - Reproduction/physiology
MH  - *Sexual Behavior, Animal
MH  - *Social Behavior
MH  - Spermatozoa/physiology
MH  - Spiders/growth & development/*physiology
PMC - PMC5000426
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - *Adaptive plasticity
OT  - *Density cues
OT  - *Environmental uncertainty
OT  - *Information use
OT  - *Male-male competition
OT  - *Nephilidae
OT  - *SSD
EDAT- 2016/08/27 06:00
MHDA- 2017/07/27 06:00
PMCR- 2016/08/26
CRDT- 2016/08/27 06:00
PHST- 2016/02/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/08/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/08/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/08/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/07/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/08/26 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12862-016-0736-7 [pii]
AID - 736 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12862-016-0736-7 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Evol Biol. 2016 Aug 26;16(1):170. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0736-7.