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Article Dans Une Revue Current Opinion in Insect Science Année : 2015

The male mate search: an optimal foraging issue?

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Male insects must find and mate females to have some descendants; male fitness therefore depends on the number of females they inseminate. Males are for this reason expected to optimize the behaviors related to mate location, orientation and copulation. Although optimization of the reproductive behavior of males has long been neglected in the literature, recent studies suggest a renewed interest for this idea. Here we discuss the parallel between male mate-finding and mating strategies in insects and optimal foraging theory (OFT), a class of models which formalize the behavior of organisms seeking and exploiting resources, generally food. We highlight the different facets of male mating systems allowing such a parallel, and claim for a unifying approach of foraging behavior. Finally, we discuss novel research perspective emerging from the application of OFT to male reproductive behavior.
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hal-01205879 , version 1 (17-11-2015)

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Philippe Louâpre, Xavier Fauvergue, Joan van Baaren, Véronique Martel. The male mate search: an optimal foraging issue?. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2015, 9, pp.91-95. ⟨10.1016/j.cois.2015.02.012⟩. ⟨hal-01205879⟩
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