ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2013
The consequences of polyandry for population viability, extinction risk and conservation.
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- Stronger net selection on males across animals.eLife · 2021Pooled it
- Meta-analytic evidence that sexual selection improves population fitness.Nature communications · 2019Pooled it
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- Facultative polyandry under heat stress and the evolutionary potential for climate-driven shifts in mating systems.Heredity · 2025Article
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- African Queens find mates when males are rare.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Male harm offsets the demographic benefits of good genes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Sexual selection moderates heat stress response in males and females.Functional ecology · 2022Article
- Female mating rates and their fitness consequences in the common house spiderEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
- Enforced monoandry over generations induces a reduction of female investment into reproduction in a promiscuous bird.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- The stagnation paradox: the ever-improving but (more or less) stationary population fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Sexual conflict in a changing environment.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Article
- Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism.Evolution letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
Polyandry, by elevating sexual conflict and selecting for reduced male care relative to monandry, may exacerbate the cost of sex and thereby seriously impact population fitness. On the other hand, polyandry has a number of possible population-level benefits over monandry, such as increased sexual selection leading to faster adaptation and a reduced mutation load. Here, we review existing information on how female fitness evolves under polyandry and how this influences population dynamics. In balance, it is far from clear whether polyandry has a net positive or negative effect on female fitness, but we also stress that its effects on individuals may not have visible demographic consequences. In populations that produce many more offspring than can possibly survive and breed, offspring gained or lost as a result of polyandry may not affect population size. Such ecological 'masking' of changes in population fitness could hide a response that only manifests under adverse environmental conditions (e.g. anthropogenic change). Surprisingly few studies have attempted to link mating system variation to population dynamics, and in general we urge researchers to consider the ecological consequences of evolutionary processes.
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