ArticleEcology and evolution2014
Multiple paternity in wild house mice (Mus musculus musculus): effects on offspring genetic diversity and body mass.
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- Paternity share predicts sons' fetal testosterone.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Leveraging a natural murine meiotic drive to suppress invasive populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Controlling invasive rodents via synthetic gene drive and the role of polyandry.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual experience has no effect on male mating or reproductive success in house mice.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Drivers of sex ratio bias in the eastern bongo: lower inbreeding increases the probability of being born male.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- A High Quality Genome forG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2018Article
- Does multiple paternity influence offspring disease resistance?Journal of evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Genetic variance components and heritability of multiallelic heterozygosity under inbreeding.Heredity · 2016Article
- Revisiting telegony: offspring inherit an acquired characteristic of their mother's previous mate.Ecology letters · 2014Article
- Multiple paternity does not depend on male genetic diversity.Animal behaviour · 2014Article
- Sperm morphology in two house mouse subspecies: do wild-derived strains and wild mice tell the same story?PloS one · 2014Article
- Polyandry is shaped by male mating behavior in house mice living in semi-natural conditions.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Multiple mating is common in many species, but it is unclear whether multiple paternity enhances offspring genetic diversity or fitness. We conducted a survey on wild house mice (Mus musculus musculus), and we found that in 73 pregnant females, 29% of litters had multiple sires, which is remarkably similar to the 23-26% found in feral populations of Mus musculus domesticus in the USA and Australia, respectively. The question is: How has selection maintained multiple mating in these subspecies since the evolutionary divergence, ca. 2800-6000 years ago? We found no evidence that multiple paternity enhanced females' litter size, contrary to the fertility assurance or genetic benefits hypotheses. Multiple paternity was associated with reduced mean and variance in offspring body mass, which suggests that females allocate fewer resources or that there is increased intrauterine conflict in multiple-versus single-sired litters. We found increased allelic diversity (though not heterozygosity) in multiple-sired litters, as predicted by the genetic diversity hypothesis. Finally, we found that the dams' heterozygosity was correlated with the mean heterozygosity of their offspring in single-and multiple-sired litters, suggesting that outbred, heterozygous females were more likely to avoid inbreeding than inbred, homozygous females. Future studies are needed to examine how increased genetic diversity of litters and smaller mean (and variance) offspring body mass associated with multiple paternity affect offspring fitness.
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