Ferkin Michael H
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38017, USA.
Biology (Basel). 2018 Jan 25;7(1):13. doi: 10.3390/biology7010013.
This paper details how chemical communication is affected by ecological challenges such as finding mates. I list several conditions that affect the decision to attract mates, the decision to respond to the signals of potential mates and how the response depends on context. These mate-choice decisions and their outcomes will depend on the life history constraints placed on individuals such as their fecundity, sex, lifespan, opportunities to mate in the future and age at senescence. Consequently, the sender's decision to scent mark or self-groom as well as the receiver's choice of response represents a tradeoff between the current costs of the participant's own survival and future reproduction against that of reproducing now. The decision to scent nark and the response to the scent mark of opposite-sex conspecifics should maximize the fitness of the participants in that context.
本文详细阐述了化学通讯是如何受到诸如寻找配偶等生态挑战的影响。我列出了几个影响吸引配偶决策、对潜在配偶信号做出反应的决策以及这种反应如何取决于环境的条件。这些配偶选择决策及其结果将取决于个体所面临的生活史限制，如繁殖力、性别、寿命、未来交配机会以及衰老年龄。因此，发送者进行气味标记或自我梳理的决策以及接收者的反应选择，代表了参与者自身当前生存成本与未来繁殖成本之间，与现在繁殖成本之间的权衡。在这种情况下，进行气味标记的决策以及对异性同种个体气味标记的反应应能使参与者的适应性最大化。
