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Record W4412369592 · doi:10.1139/cjz-2024-0172

Effects of mismatched mate availability cues on reproductive investment in female crickets

2025· article· en· W4412369592 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Jon Richardson, Isabelle P. Hoversten, Marlene Zuk

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Zoology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAnimal Behavior and Reproduction
Canadian institutionsSt. Francis Xavier University
FundersUniversity of Minnesota
KeywordsBiologySensory cueEcologyCricketZoologyNeuroscience

Abstract

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Animals use cues experienced during early life to adaptively adjust their phenotype to the social environment they will likely experience. However, since animals often use multiple cues to assess the social environment, what happens if cues provide mismatched information? We examined the effects of mismatched cues of mate availability on behaviour and reproductive investment in female Pacific field crickets ( Teleogryllus oceanicus (Le Guillou, 1841))—a species that naturally encounters mismatched cues of mate availability due to the presence of singing and nonsinging male morphs in Hawaiian populations. In our experiment, females experienced either matched or mismatched acoustic cues (male song) and nonacoustic cues (physical presence of males) of mate availability during development. Mismatched cues did not affect female behaviour—females took longer to respond to male signals after experiencing cues of high mate availability regardless of whether or not acoustic and nonacoustic cues matched. However, mismatched cues did influence reproductive investment: females developed heavier ovaries only when both acoustic and nonacoustic cues indicated high mate availability.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.218 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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