Demonstrating mate choice copying in spiders requires further research

• 来源期刊: 动物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（2）
• 页码范围: 215-216
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoz033

摘要

Mate choice copying—when individuals learn to prefer mates or mate types that have been chosen by others--can influence trait evolution and speciation (Varela et al.2018;Dion et al.2019).Most examples of mate choice copying are from fish,birds,and mammals including humans (Varela et al.2018).However,2 invertebrate examples—fruit flies and wolf spiders—have been used to argue that the phenomenon may be phylogenetically widespread,and perhaps the rule rather than the exception in nature (Varela etal.2018).Here,we revisit the evidence for mate choice copying in wolf spiders (Fowler-Finn et al.2015) in light of new data (Gilman etal.2018).Then,we discuss why mate choice copying is a phenomenon that is likely to occur in wolf spiders,and why this deserves attention.