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Contrasting parental roles shape sex differences in poison frog space use but not navigational performance.
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- Why not both? A case study in measuring cortisol and corticosterone.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Genome Assembly of the Dyeing Poison Frog Provides Insights into the Dynamics of Transposable Element and Genome-Size Evolution.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Still little evidence sex differences in spatial navigation are evolutionary adaptations.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- What Amphibians Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Parental Care.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2023Article
- Contrasting parental roles shape sex differences in poison frog space use but not navigational performance.eLife · 2022Article
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Abstract
Sex differences in vertebrate spatial abilities are typically interpreted under the adaptive specialization hypothesis, which posits that male reproductive success is linked to larger home ranges and better navigational skills. The androgen spillover hypothesis counters that enhanced male spatial performance may be a byproduct of higher androgen levels. Animal groups that include species where females are expected to outperform males based on life-history traits are key for disentangling these hypotheses. We investigated the association between sex differences in reproductive strategies, spatial behavior, and androgen levels in three species of poison frogs. We tracked individuals in natural environments to show that contrasting parental sex roles shape sex differences in space use, where the sex performing parental duties shows wider-ranging movements. We then translocated frogs from their home areas to test their navigational performance and found that the caring sex outperformed the non-caring sex only in one out of three species. In addition, males across species displayed more explorative behavior than females and androgen levels correlated with explorative behavior and homing accuracy. Overall, we reveal that poison frog reproductive strategies shape movement patterns but not necessarily navigational performance. Together this work suggests that prevailing adaptive hypotheses provide an incomplete explanation of sex differences in spatial abilities.
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