ArticleEcology and evolution2015
Related male Drosophila melanogaster reared together as larvae fight less and sire longer lived daughters.
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- Cooperative foraging during larval stage affects fitness in Drosophila.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Kin but less than kind: within-group male relatedness does not increase female fitness in seed beetles.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Male responses to sperm competition when rivals vary in number and familiarity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- 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
- Kin selection promotes female productivity and cooperation between the sexes.Science advances · 2017Article
- The contrasting role of male relatedness in different mechanisms of sexual selection in red junglefowl.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
- Are flies kind to kin? The role of intra- and inter-sexual relatedness in mediating reproductive conflict.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
Competition over access to reproductive opportunities can lead males to harm females. However, recent work has shown that, in Drosophila melanogaster, male competition and male harm of females are both reduced under conditions simulating male-specific population viscosity (i.e., in groups where males are related and reared with each other as larvae). Here, we seek to replicate these findings and investigate whether male population viscosity can have repercussions for the fitness of offspring in the next generation. We show that groups of unrelated-unfamiliar (i.e., unrelated individuals raised apart) males fight more intensely than groups of related-familiar males (i.e., full siblings raised together as larvae), supporting previous findings, and that exposure to a female is required to trigger these differential patterns of male-male competition. Importantly, we show that differences in male-male competition can be associated with transgenerational effects: the daughters of females exposed to unrelated-unfamiliar males suffered higher mortality than the daughters of females exposed to related-familiar males. Collectively, these results suggest that population structure (i.e., variation in the relatedness and/or larval familiarity of local male groups) can modulate male-male competition with important transgenerational consequences.
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