ArticleMolecular ecology2018
Brood-tending males in a biparental fish suffer high paternity losses but rarely cuckold.
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- Congruent geographic variation in saccular otolith shape across multiple species of African cichlids.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Nest defense in the face of cuckoldry: evolutionary rather than facultative adaptation to chronic paternity loss.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Freshwater hydrozoan blooms alter activity and behaviour of territorial cichlids in Lake Tanganyika.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
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- Brood-tending males in a biparental fish suffer high paternity losses but rarely cuckold.Molecular ecology · 2018Article
- Socio-ecological conditions and female infidelity in the Seychelles warbler.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Single fathers sacrifice their broods and re-mate quickly in a socially monogamous cichlid.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Extra-pair paternity within socially monogamous mating systems is well studied in birds and mammals but rather neglected in other animal taxa. In fishes, social monogamy has evolved several times but few studies have investigated the extent to which pair-bonded male fish lose fertilizations to cuckolders and gain extra-pair fertilizations themselves. We address this gap and present genetic paternity data collected from a wild population of Variabilichromis moorii, a socially monogamous African cichlid with biparental care of offspring. We show that brood-tending, pair-bonded males suffer exceptionally high paternity losses, siring only 63% of the offspring produced by their female partners on average. The number of cuckolders per brood ranged up to nine and yet, surprisingly, brood-tending males in the population were rarely the culprits. Brood-tending males sired very few extra-pair offspring, despite breeding in close proximity to one another. While unpaired males were largely responsible for the cuckoldry, pair-bonded males still enjoyed higher fertilization success than individual unpaired males. We discuss these results in the context of ecological and phenotypic constraints on cuckoldry and the fitness payoffs of alternative male tactics. Our study provides new insights into how pair-bonded males handle the trade-off between securing within-pair and extra-pair reproduction.
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