Relationship Between Sex Ratio and Breeding Strategy by Evolutionary Model of Aomon Damselfly Considering Sexual Conflict

Abstract

In recent years, in the field of artificial life, research has been actively conducted to model the behavior of living organisms on a computer and elucidate the evolutionary mechanism. It is known that real Aomon damselflies perform long-term mating before the start of spawning activity to restrain females in order to prevent sperm from being scraped from other males. It has also been confirmed that mating time is longer in an environment with many males. In this study, we try to create an agent-based model that strongly reflects the actual ecology in order to observe the evolution of male mating time. Then, the created model is used to investigate changes in mating time in an environment with many males.