Genetic relationship between larvae and caregiver males of the glassfrog Hyalinobatrachium cappellei (Anura, Centrolenidae)

• Grant number: 17/07219-9
• Support type: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): September 15, 2017
• Effective date (End): March 14, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Animal Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Cynthia Peralta de Almeida Prado
• Grantee: Anyelet Valencia Aguilar
• Supervisor abroad: Kelly Raquel Zamudio
• Home Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Local de pesquisa : Cornell University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 16/05070-5 - Evolution of parental care in glassfrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae), BP.DR

Abstract

Previous studies in fishes and anurans have evidenced that parentage within an egg clutch could influence the degree of paternal care and reproductive strategies because the cost of care for parents. Males of the glassfrog Hyalinobatrachium cappellei care their egg clutches in their territories to protect them from pathogens and desiccation. Here we are going to develop microsatellite DNA markers to assess the relationship between paternal care and the percent of male's genetic contribution to the clutch. Here, it is expected attending males to be the genetic father of the offspring in order to offset costs related to mating opportunity loss and decrease in food intake. The results of our study will provide information hitherto little explored in the literature regarding behavioral strategies to offset the parental investment in Neotropical anurans. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

VALENCIA-AGUILAR, ANYELET; ZAMUDIO, KELLY R.; HADDAD, CELIO F. B.; BOGDANOWICZ, STEVE M.; PRADO, CYNTHIA P. A. Show me you care: female mate choice based on egg attendance rather than male or territorial traits. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, v. 31, n. 4, p. 1054-1064, JUL-AUG 2020. Web of Science Citations: 1.