dc.contributor.author | Duffield, KR | |
dc.contributor.author | Hampton, KJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Houslay, TM | |
dc.contributor.author | Hunt, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Rapkin, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Sakaluk, SK | |
dc.contributor.author | Sadd, BM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-21T09:52:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-02-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | The terminal investment hypothesis proposes that decreased expectation of future reproduction (e.g., arising from a threat to survival) should precipitate increased investment in current reproduction. The level at which a cue of decreased survival is sufficient to trigger terminal investment (i.e., the terminal investment threshold) may vary according to other factors that influence expectation for future reproduction. We test whether the terminal investment threshold varies with age in male crickets, using heat-killed bacteria to simulate an immune-inducing infection. We measured calling effort (a behavior essential for mating) and hemolymph antimicrobial activity in young and old males across a gradient of increasing infection cue intensity. There was a significant interaction between the infection cue and age in their effect on calling effort, confirming the existence of a dynamic terminal investment threshold: young males reduced effort at all infection levels, whereas old males increased effort at the highest levels relative to naïve individuals. A lack of a corresponding decrease in antibacterial activity suggests that altered reproductive effort is not traded against investment in this component of immunity. Collectively, these results support the existence of a dynamic terminal investment threshold, perhaps accounting for some of the conflicting evidence in support of terminal investment. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded, in part, by a grant from the National Science
Foundation IOS 16-54028 (SKS, BMS, and JH), grants from the Beta Lambda Chapter of the
Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society, Graduate Student Association of Illinois State
University, Animal Behavior Society, and Orthopterists‘ Society to KRD, and an Illinois State
University Summer Faculty Fellowship and Faculty Research Award to SKS. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | DOI:10.1111/evo.13443 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/evo.13443 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31594 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.relation.source | Data will be deposited at Dryad Digital Repository (www.datadryad.org) | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29392709 | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 1st February 2019 in compliance with publisher policy. | en_GB |
dc.rights | This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved | en_GB |
dc.subject | Age-dependent reproductive effort | en_GB |
dc.subject | Gryllodes sigillatus | en_GB |
dc.subject | fecundity compensation | en_GB |
dc.subject | residual reproductive value | en_GB |
dc.subject | trade-offs | en_GB |
dc.title | Age-dependent variation in the terminal investment threshold in male crickets | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0014-3820 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | United States | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript, made available online by the publisher 1st February 2018. Final version to be available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Evolution | en_GB |