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Within-group male relatedness reduces harm to females in Drosophila.
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- Long-sperm precedence and other cryptic female choices in Drosophila melanogaster.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2025Article
- Male harm suppresses female fitness, affecting the dynamics of adaptation and evolutionary rescue.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Small-scale genetic structure of populations of the bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini.Experimental & applied acarology · 2023Article
- Thermal phenotypic plasticity of pre- and post-copulatory male harm buffers sexual conflict in wildeLife · 2023Article
- Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- No evidence that relatedness or familiarity modulates male harm inEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- Sex-biased demography modulates male harm across the genome.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Metapopulation structure modulates sexual antagonism.Evolution letters · 2021Article
- Long-term overlap of social and genetic structure in free-ranging house mice reveals dynamic seasonal and group size effects.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Males optimally balance selfish and kin-selected strategies of sexual competition in the guppy.Nature ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Does kin discrimination promote cooperation?Biology letters · 2020Article
- Kin but less than kind: within-group male relatedness does not increase female fitness in seed beetles.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual selection, phenotypic plasticity and female reproductive output.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Male responses to sperm competition when rivals vary in number and familiarity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Interactions between the sexual identity of the nervous system and the social environment mediate lifespan inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Kin discrimination allows plants to modify investment towards pollinator attraction.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Males harm females less when competing with familiar relatives.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Male relatedness and familiarity are required to modulate male-induced harm to females inProceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Sexual selection modulates genetic conflicts and patterns of genomic imprinting.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
To resolve the mechanisms that switch competition to cooperation is key to understanding biological organization. This is particularly relevant for intrasexual competition, which often leads to males harming females. Recent theory proposes that kin selection may modulate female harm by relaxing competition among male relatives. Here we experimentally manipulate the relatedness of groups of male Drosophila melanogaster competing over females to demonstrate that, as expected, within-group relatedness inhibits male competition and female harm. Females exposed to groups of three brothers unrelated to the female had higher lifetime reproductive success and slower reproductive ageing compared to females exposed to groups of three males unrelated to each other. Triplets of brothers also fought less with each other, courted females less intensively and lived longer than triplets of unrelated males. However, associations among brothers may be vulnerable to invasion by minorities of unrelated males: when two brothers were matched with an unrelated male, the unrelated male sired on average twice as many offspring as either brother. These results demonstrate that relatedness can profoundly affect fitness through its modulation of intrasexual competition, as flies plastically adjust sexual behaviour in a manner consistent with kin-selection theory.
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