ArticleJournal of evolutionary biology2015
The repeatability of mating failure in a polyandrous bug.
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- Male Mating Behaviour Is Shaped by Previous Experience of Both Conspecific and Heterospecific Females in the Seed BugEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in an Insect With High Levels of Mating Failure.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The role of condition on sexual selection in the seed bugEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Is mating failure caused by cryptic male choice in the seed bugEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Sexual conflict and sexual networks in bed bugs: the fitness cost of traumatic insemination, female avoidance and male mate choice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- An empirical test of the bet-hedging polyandry hypothesis: Female red flour beetles avoid extinction via multiple mating.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- The fitness effects of a pale mutant in the aposematic seed bugEcology and evolution · 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
- Variation in pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection on male genital size in two species of lygaeid bug.Behavioral ecology and sociobiologyArticle
- Do the benefits of polyandry scale with outbreeding?Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Mating failure, characterized by the lack of production of offspring following copulation, is relatively common across taxa yet is little understood. It is unclear whether mating failures are stochastic occurrences between incompatible mating partners or represent a persistent, meaningful phenotype on the part of one or other sex. Here we test this in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans, by sequentially mating families of males with randomly allocated unrelated females and calculating the repeatability of mating outcome for each individual male and family. Mating outcome is significantly repeatable within individual males but not across full-sib brothers. We conclude that mating failure represents a consistent male-associated phenotype with low heritability in this species, affected by as yet undetermined environmental influences on males.
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