Houston Alasdair I, Székely Tamás, McNamara John M
Centre for Behavioural Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, BS8 1UG.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2005 Jan;20(1):33-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.10.008. Epub 2004 Nov 2.
Conflict between parents over care of young arises when the young benefit from the effort of both parents, but each parent suffers a reduction in future reproductive success as a consequence of its own effort. Here, we review existing models and argue that they fail to capture many important components of parental conflict. For example, we lack adequate models of how a parent should compensate for a reduction in the effort of its mate. These models should incorporate the process by which decisions are reached. Recent theory suggests that a parent benefits by handicapping itself, and more experimental and theoretical work on this topic could be fruitful. We also need more theoretical work on attractiveness that incorporates consistent interactions between males and females.
当幼崽从双亲的照料努力中受益，但每个亲本自身的努力却导致其未来繁殖成功率下降时，就会出现亲本之间在幼崽照料方面的冲突。在此，我们回顾了现有的模型，并认为它们未能涵盖亲本冲突的许多重要组成部分。例如，我们缺乏关于亲本应如何补偿其配偶努力减少的适当模型。这些模型应纳入决策达成的过程。最近的理论表明，亲本通过自我设限而受益，关于这一主题的更多实验和理论工作可能会富有成果。我们还需要更多关于吸引力的理论工作，该工作要纳入雄性和雌性之间一致的相互作用。
