ArticleEcology and evolution2017
Polyandry enhances offspring viability with survival costs to mothers only when mating exclusively with virgin males in
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- Ageing effects of social environments in 'non-social' insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Pooled it
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- No Evidence of Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution in Drosophila Reproductive Tract Transcriptomes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Transgenerational effects of multiple mating inEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
- Polyandry enhances offspring viability with survival costs to mothers only when mating exclusively with virgin males inEcology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
A prominent hypothesis for polyandry says that male-male competitive drivers induce males to coerce already-mated females to copulate, suggesting that females are more likely to be harassed in the presence of multiple males. This early sociobiological idea of male competitive drive seemed to explain why sperm-storing females mate multiply. Here, we describe an experiment eliminating all opportunities for male-male behavioral competition, while varying females' opportunities to mate or not with the same male many times, or with many other males only one time each. We limited each female subject's exposure to no more than one male per day over her entire lifespan starting at the age at which copulations usually commence. We tested a priori predictions about relative lifespan and daily components of RS of female
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