ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2015
The costs and benefits of multiple mating in a mostly monandrous wasp.
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- Agent-based modelling reveals feedback loops and non-linearity between mating system evolution and disease dynamics.PloS one · 2025Article
- Maternal body size affects sex allocation in a gregarious parasitoid.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2024Article
- Transgenerational effects of multiple mating inEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- Sperm Limitation Produces Male Biased Offspring Sex Ratios in the Wasp, Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2022Article
- Rare polyandry and common monogamy in the firefly squid, Watasenia scintillans.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Selection for associative learning of color stimuli reveals correlated evolution of this learning ability across multiple stimuli and rewards.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2018Article
- Females of a gift-giving spider do not trade sex for food gifts: a consequence of male deception?BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- Socially cued developmental plasticity in web-building spiders.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- A sex allocation cost to polyandry in a parasitoid wasp.Biology letters · 2015Article
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Abstract
The taxonomically widespread nature of polyandry remains a puzzle. Much of the empirical work regarding the costs and benefits of multiple mating to females has, for obvious reasons, relied on species that are already highly polyandrous. However, this makes it difficult to separate the processes that maintain the current level of polyandry from the processes that facilitate its expression and initiated its evolution. Here we consider the costs and benefits of polyandry in Nasonia vitripennis, a species of parasitoid wasp that is "mostly monandrous" in the wild, but which evolves polyandry under laboratory culture conditions. In a series of six experiments, we show that females gain a direct fecundity and longevity benefit from mating multiply with virgin males. Conversely, mating multiply with previously mated males actually results in a fecundity cost. Sexual harassment may also represent a significant cost of reproduction. Harassment was, however, only costly during oviposition, resulting in reduced fecundity, longevity, and disrupted sex allocation. Our results show that ecological changes, in our case associated with differences in the local mating structure in the laboratory can alter the costs and benefits of mating and harassment and potentially lead to shifts in mating patterns.
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