ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2013
Selection on female remating interval is influenced by male sperm competition strategies and ejaculate characteristics.
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- Within-population sperm competition intensity does not predict asymmetry in conpopulation sperm precedence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Complex interactions between sperm viability and female fertility.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Female novelty and male status dynamically modulate ejaculate expenditure and seminal fluid proteome over successive matings in red junglefowl.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Structure of sexual networks determines the operation of sexual selection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Feed-backs among inbreeding, inbreeding depression in sperm traits, and sperm competition can drive evolution of costly polyandry.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
- Evolution of male and female choice in polyandrous systems.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Sexual conflict over remating interval is modulated by theProceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Nutrition-dependent phenotypes affect sexual selection in a ladybird.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Beyond sex allocation: the role of mating systems in sexual selection in parasitoid wasps.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2015Review
- Mosquito biology. Evolution of sexual traits influencing vectorial capacity in anopheline mosquitoes.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2015Article
- Sexual conflict arising from extrapair matings in birds.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2015Review
- Evolution of female multiple mating: A quantitative model of the "sexually selected sperm" hypothesis.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2015Article
- Sexual cannibalism as a manifestation of sexual conflict.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014Review
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Abstract
Female remating rate dictates the level of sperm competition in a population, and extensive research has focused on how sperm competition generates selection on male ejaculate allocation. Yet the way ejaculate allocation strategies in turn generate selection on female remating rates, which ultimately influence levels of sperm competition, has received much less consideration despite increasing evidence that both mating itself and ejaculate traits affect multiple components of female fitness. Here, we develop theory to examine how the effects of mating on female fertility, fecundity and mortality interact to generate selection on female remating rate. When males produce more fertile ejaculates, females are selected to mate less frequently, thus decreasing levels of sperm competition. This could in turn favour decreased male ejaculate allocation, which could subsequently lead to higher female remating. When remating simultaneously increases female fecundity and mortality, females are selected to mate more frequently, thus exacerbating sperm competition and favouring male traits that convey a competitive advantage even when harmful to female survival. While intuitive when considered separately, these predictions demonstrate the potential for complex coevolutionary dynamics between male ejaculate expenditure and female remating rate, and the correlated evolution of multiple male and female reproductive traits affecting mating, fertility and fecundity.
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