Drop or fly? Negative genetic correlation between death-feigning intensity and flying ability as alternative anti-predator strategies
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A prey animal may have the alternative of flying away or feigning death when it encounters predators. These alternatives have a genetic base as anti-predator strategies in the adzuki bean beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis . A negative genetic correlation between death-feigning intensity and flying ability was found in C. chinensis , i.e. lower flying ability is genetically connected to escaping by dropping from a perch and then feigning death, whereas higher flying ability does not correspond to death-feigning behaviour. Two bidirectional artificial selections for death-feigning duration and flying ability were conducted independently in C. chinensis . The strains selected for shorter (longer) duration of death-feigning had higher (lower) flying ability, while the strains selected for lower (higher) flying ability showed longer (shorter) duration of death-feigning. When the two traits were compared in 21 populations of C. chinensis derived from different geographical regions, a significant negative correlation was found between death-feigning intensity and flying ability. Based on these results, the choice between alternative escaping behaviours in animals is discussed from two points of view: phenotypic plasticity, an individual with two tactics; and pleiotropic genetic correlation, different individuals with opposite strategies.
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A negative correlation has been found between the duration of tonic immobility and flight ability (Ohno and Miyatake, 2007).
“Additionally, a negative correlation has been found between the duration of tonic immobility and flight ability (Ohno and Miyatake, 2007).”
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Saini, R., Pandey, A., Pal, A., Mishra, M. K., & Pandey, R. (2026) · Animal Taxonomy and Ecology · doi:10.1556/1777.2026.00138
- Authors
- Ohno, T., & Miyatake, T.
- Affiliations
- Okayama University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Miyatake, Takahisa
- ORCID
- Miyatake, Takahisa
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2006-11-21
- Volume
- 274
- Issue
- 1609
- Pages
- 555-560
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 0962-8452
- 1471-2954
- PMC
- PMC1766389
- OpenAlex
- W2121219758
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 43
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- FWCI
- 3.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16370013)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Keywords
- Callosobruchus chinensis, tonic immobility, flight ability, anti-predator strategies, selective breeding, phenotypic plasticity, pleiotropy
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Coleoptera, Flight, Animal, Predatory Behavior, Immobility Response, Tonic
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