Offspring viability benefits but no apparent costs of mating with high quality males

Leigh W. Simmons, Rebecca Holley

doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0976

Offspring viability benefits but no apparent costs of mating with high quality males

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Leigh W. Simmons

Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology (M092), The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia
Rebecca Holley

Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology (M092), The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia

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公開日: 2010-12

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https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/

DOI

10.1098/rsbl.2010.0976

公開者: The Royal Society

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<jats:p> Traditional models of sexual selection posit that male courtship signals evolve as indicators of underlying male genetic quality. An alternative hypothesis is that sexual conflict over mating generates antagonistic coevolution between male courtship persistence and female resistance. In the scarabaeine dung beetle <jats:italic>Onthophagus taurus</jats:italic> , females are more likely to mate with males that have high courtship rates. Here, we examine the effects of exposing females to males with either high or low courtship rates on female lifetime productivity and offspring viability. Females exposed to males with high courtship rates mated more often and produced offspring with greater egg–adult viability. Female productivity and lifespan were unaffected by exposure to males with high courtship rates. The data are consistent with models of sexual selection based on indirect genetic benefits, and provide little evidence for sexual conflict in this system. </jats:p>