Reproduction & Life Histories Flashcards
aspects of reproduction
- gender systems
- sexual characteristics
- mating systems
- spawning behaviors
semelparous reproduction
- typically diadromous
- all your eggs in one basket
diadromous
migrate between marine or freshwater
pros/cons to semelparous reproduction
great reproductive output but subject to environmental variance
examples of semelparous fish
- Salmon
- Lamprey
- Eels
iteroparous reproduction
- most fish
- evens out variance in reproductive success
pros/ cons to iteroparous reproduction
have a resonable output but it is spread over time
gonochoristic gender systems
- chromosomal
- 98% of fishes
- male heterogametic (XY)
- female heterogametic (ZW)
heterophroditism gender systems
- simultaneous
- protandrous or protogynous
protandrous
first male and then changes to female
protogynous
- most common
- first female and then changes to male
unisexuality
- gynogenesis
- hybridogenesis
gynogenesis
- reduced genetic variability
- no males needed
hybridogenesis
hybrid passes only genome that matches the one it backcrosses to
examples of simultaneous hermaphrodites
- killifish
- hamlets
examples of protandrous sequential hermaphrodites
Pomacentridae
examples of protogynous sequential hermaphrodites
17 marine families
example of clown anemone fishes
- groups of 2 large & several smaller individuals
- largest is active female, next largest active male, remainder are inactive males
another name for unisexuality
parthenogenesis
gynogenesis in unisexuality
sperm activates development of egg but no genetic transfer occurs
hybridogenesis in unisexuality
fertilization occurs & true hybrids are formed
subsequent miosis
male chromosomes are lost
primary sexual characteristics
features involved with copulation or parental care
examples of primary sexual characteristics
- poeciliidae pelvic fins form gonopodium
- male sharks & skates have claspers
- male seahorses have pouch for parental care
secondary sexual characteristics
- exclusive or differential
- appear or maturation
- associated with breeding season
- enhances fitness but not survival
characteristics of sexual dimorphism
- body size, fins
- color
- swelling and growth of body features
- tubercles
- body ornament
- electric signals