ReviewEvolutionary anthropology2019
Male-mediated prenatal loss: Functions and mechanisms.
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- Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?Animal behaviour · 2025Article
- Strategies, costs and counter-strategies to sexual coercion.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Male cuticular pheromones stimulate removal of the mating plug and promote re-mating through pC1 neurons ineLife · 2024Article
- Male-mediated early maturation unlikely to evolve via adaptive evolution.Animal behaviour · 2024Article
- The role of male quality in sequential mate choice: pregnancy replacement in small mammals?Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Female behavior drives the formation of distinct social structures in C57BL/6J versus wild-derived outbred mice in field enclosures.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Sexual conflict over sex-an underappreciated consequence of childbirth?Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024Article
- Contrasting effects of male immigration and rainfall on rank-related patterns of miscarriage in female olive baboons.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Sexually selected infanticide has been the subject of intense empirical and theoretical study for decades; a related phenomenon, male-mediated prenatal loss, has received much less attention in evolutionary studies. Male-mediated prenatal loss occurs when inseminated or pregnant females terminate reproductive effort following exposure to a nonsire male, either through implantation failure or pregnancy termination. Male-mediated prenatal loss encompasses two sub-phenomena: sexually selected feticide and the Bruce effect. In this review, we provide a framework that explains the relationship between feticide and the Bruce effect and describes what is known about the proximate and ultimate mechanisms involved in each. Using a simple model, we demonstrate that male-mediated prenatal loss can provide greater reproductive benefits to males than infanticide. We therefore suggest that, compared to infanticide, male-mediated prenatal loss may be more prevalent in mammalian species and may have played a greater role in their social evolution than has previously been documented.
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