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Park YH, Shin D, Han CS. Polyandrous females but not monogamous females vary in reproductive ageing patterns in the bean bug Riptortus pedestris. BMC Ecol Evol 2022; 22:115. [PMID: 36217117 PMCID: PMC9549660 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-02070-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In general, reproductive performance exhibits nonlinear changes with age. Specifically, reproductive performance increases early in life, reaches a peak, and then declines later in life. Reproductive ageing patterns can also differ among individuals if they are influenced by individual-specific strategies of resource allocation between early-life reproduction and maintenance. In addition, the social environment, such as the number of available mates, can influence individual-specific resource allocation strategies and consequently alter the extent of individual differences in reproductive ageing patterns. That is, females that interact with more partners are expected to vary their copulation frequency, adopt a more flexible reproductive strategy and exhibit greater individual differences in reproductive ageing patterns. METHODS In this study, we evaluated the effect of mating with multiple males on both group- and individual-level reproductive ageing patterns in females of the bean bug Riptortus pedestris by ensuring that females experienced monogamous (one female with one male) or polyandrous conditions (one female with two males). RESULTS We found that group-level reproductive ageing patterns did not differ between monogamy-treatment and polyandry-treatment females. However, polyandry-treatment females exhibited among-individual variation in reproductive ageing patterns, while monogamy-treatment females did not. CONCLUSION Our findings provide the first empirical evidence regarding the influence of the social environment on individual variation in reproductive ageing patterns. We further suggest that the number of potential mates influences group- and individual-level reproductive ageing patterns, depending on which sex controls mating. We encourage future studies to consider interactions between species-specific mating systems and the social environment when evaluating group- and individual-level reproductive ageing patterns.
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- Yi Hang Park
- grid.289247.20000 0001 2171 7818Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
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- grid.289247.20000 0001 2171 7818Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
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- grid.289247.20000 0001 2171 7818Department of Biology, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
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Polyandrous mating increases offspring production and lifespan in female Drosophila arizonae. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-018-2589-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Kvarnemo C. Why do some animals mate with one partner rather than many? A review of causes and consequences of monogamy. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2018; 93:1795-1812. [PMID: 29687607 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2017] [Revised: 03/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Why do some animals mate with one partner rather than many? Here, I investigate factors related to (i) spatial constraints (habitat limitation, mate availability), (ii) time constraints (breeding synchrony, length of breeding season), (iii) need for parental care, and (iv) genetic compatibility, to see what support can be found in different taxa regarding the importance of these factors in explaining the occurrence of monogamy, whether shown by one sex (monogyny or monandry) or by both sexes (mutual monogamy). Focusing on reproductive rather than social monogamy whenever possible, I review the empirical literature for birds, mammals and fishes, with occasional examples from other taxa. Each of these factors can explain mating patterns in some taxa, but not in all. In general, there is mixed support for how well the factors listed above predict monogamy. The factor that shows greatest support across taxa is habitat limitation. By contrast, while a need for parental care might explain monogamy in freshwater fishes and birds, there is clear evidence that this is not the case in marine fishes and mammals. Hence, reproductive monogamy does not appear to have a single overriding explanation, but is more taxon specific. Genetic compatibility is a promising avenue for future work likely to improve our understanding of monogamy and other mating patterns. I also discuss eight important consequences of reproductive monogamy: (i) parentage, (ii) parental care, (iii) eusociality and altruism, (iv) infanticide, (v) effective population size, (vi) mate choice before mating, (vii) sexual selection, and (viii) sexual conflict. Of these, eusociality and infanticide have been subject to debate, briefly summarised herein. A common expectation is that monogamy leads to little sexual conflict and no or little sexual selection. However, as reviewed here, sexual selection can be substantial under mutual monogamy, and both sexes can be subject to such selection. Under long-term mutual monogamy, mate quality is obviously more important than mate numbers, which in turn affects the need for pre-mating mate choice. Overall, I conclude that, despite much research on genetic mating patterns, reproductive monogamy is still surprisingly poorly understood and further experimental and comparative work is needed. This review identifies several areas in need of more data and also proposes new hypotheses to test.
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- Charlotta Kvarnemo
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Croshaw DA, Pechmann JHK, Glenn TC. Multiple Paternity Benefits Female Marbled Salamanders by Increasing Survival of Progeny to Metamorphosis. Ethology 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Dean A. Croshaw
- Department of Biological Sciences Florida Gulf Coast University Fort Myers FL USA
- Savannah River Ecology Laboratory Drawer E Aiken SC USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Science University of Georgia Athens GA USA
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Larsdotter-Mellström H, Wiklund C. Different mating expenditure in response to sperm competition risk between generations in the bivoltine butterfly Pieris napi. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-1919-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Hernández Duran LC, Fajardo Medina GE, Fuentes Quinter LS, Martin O. Mating opportunities in Sangalopsis veliterna females: costs and benefits. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2014; 14:112. [PMID: 25205137 PMCID: PMC4212863 DOI: 10.1673/031.014.112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In nature, females of several animal taxa exhibit considerable variation in their mating system, and this variation involves different balances of costs (e.g., energetic, reproductive) and benefits (e.g., increased net reproductive rate of the female, increased longevity). Many studies have focused on discovering the potential advantages and disadvantages that females could have when increasing their mating rate and the possible evolutionary consequences that may result. Butterflies and moths are an ideal study system because it is easy to determine and to manipulate experimentally their mating frequency. In this study, the effect of continuous availability of different numbers of males (1, 2, 4, 8) on female mating rate and fitness components was estimated by comparing the number of spermatophores in the corpus bursa (an estimate of the number of copulations, but not of the number males involved in these copulations), female longevity, lifetime number of laid eggs (fecundity), and proportion of hatching eggs (fertility) in the moth Sangalopsis veliterna Druce (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). The results showed that there were no significant differences in either fertility or fecundity when treatments were compared, but longevity and in some cases fecundity increased when females had several matings.
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Raitanen J, Forsman JT, Kivelä SM, Mäenpää MI, Välimäki P. Attraction to conspecific eggs may guide oviposition site selection in a solitary insect. Behav Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Fisher DN, Doff RJ, Price TAR. True polyandry and pseudopolyandry: why does a monandrous fly remate? BMC Evol Biol 2013; 13:157. [PMID: 23885723 PMCID: PMC3728105 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2013] [Accepted: 07/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The rate of female remating can have important impacts on a species, from affecting conflict and cooperation within families, to population viability and gene flow. However, determining the level of polyandry in a species can be difficult, with information on the mating system of many species being based on a single experiment, or completely absent. Here we investigate the mating system of the fruit fly Drosophila subobscura. Reports from England, Spain and Canada suggest D. subobscura is entirely monandrous, with no females remating. However, work in Greece suggests that 23% of females remate. We examine the willingness of female D. subobscura to remate in the laboratory in a range of conditions, using flies from both Greece and England. We make a distinction between pseudopolyandry, where a female remates after an ineffective first mating that is incapable of fertilising her eggs, and true polyandry, where a female remates even though she has received suitable sperm from a previous mating. RESULTS We find a low rate of true polyandry by females (4%), with no difference between populations. The rate of true polyandry is affected by temperature, but not starvation. Pseudopolyandry is three times as common as true polyandry, and most females showing pseudopolyandry mated at their first opportunity after their first failed mating. However, despite the lack of differences in polyandry between the populations, we do find differences in the way males respond to exposure to other males prior to mating. In line with previous work, English flies responded to one or more rivals by increasing their copulation duration, a response previously thought to be driven by sperm competition. Greek males only show increased copulation duration when exposed to four or more rival males. This suggests that the response to rivals in D. subobscura is not related to sperm competition, because sperm competition is rare, and there is no correlation of response to rivals and mating system across the populations. CONCLUSIONS These results illustrate the difficulties in determining the mating system of a species, even one that is well known and an excellent laboratory species, with results being highly dependent on the conditions used to assay the behaviour, and the population used.
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- David N Fisher
- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Treliever Road, Penryn TR10 9EZ, UK
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Biosciences Building, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Biosciences Building, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
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Monceau K, van Baaren J. Female teneral mating in a monandrous species. Ecol Evol 2012; 2:1426-36. [PMID: 22957151 PMCID: PMC3434926 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2012] [Revised: 03/19/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Schultesia nitor is a gregarious species living in Cacicus and Psarocolius ssp. pouch-like nests. Due to gregariousness, opportunities for multiple copulations in both sexes are not supposed to be restricted. Females produce only one brood during their life and die within a few days following the birth of their nymphs, but this unique brood could be the result of either single or multiple mating events (i.e., monandry vs. polyandry). In this study, we first determined the age of sexual receptivity of both males and females. Larval development in this species is shorter in males than in females and thus, this species is protandric. Males were not able to copulate the day after emergence. Contrary to males, teneral females (i.e., females achieving their imaginal molt but not yet fully sclerotised and colored) were attractive and were able to mate with males. In the second experiment, we tested the existence of multiple matings in both sexes. Our results showed that females were monandrous whereas males were polygynous. Since we had observed that females were monoandrous, we expected them to be choosy and we determined their ability to discriminate between virgin and nonvirgin males. When given the choice, females preferred virgin males and overall, they were more successful at mating than experienced ones. Our results suggest that monandry may be primarily driven by the female’s short life-span fecundity. The occurrence of teneral mating in this species calls into question the existence of a male strategy for monopolizing females, and as well as the implication of female choice. Although further work is required, this species provides an interesting model for understanding sexual conflicts.
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- Karine Monceau
- INRA, UMR 1065 Santé et Agroécologie du VignobleISVV, F-33883 Villenave d’Ornon, France
- Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1065 Santé et Agroécologie du VignobleBordeaux Sciences Agro, F-33883 Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- UMR CNRS 6553 ECOBIO, Equipe PaysaClim, Université Rennes 1Rennes, France
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Välimäki P, Kivelä SM, Mäenpää MI. Mating with a kin decreases female remating interval: a possible example of inbreeding avoidance. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1213-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Umbers KDL, Holwell GI, Stow AJ, Herberstein ME. Molecular evidence for variation in polyandry among praying mantids (Mantodea:
Ciulfina
). J Zool (1987) 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2010.00779.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- K. D. L. Umbers
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Larsdotter Mellström H, Wiklund C. What affects mating rate? Polyandry is higher in the directly developing generation of the butterfly Pieris napi. Anim Behav 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.05.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Välimäki P, Kaitala A. Properties of male ejaculates do not generate geographical variation in female mating tactics in a butterfly Pieris napi. Anim Behav 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Larsdotter Mellström H, Friberg M, Borg-Karlson AK, Murtazina R, Palm M, Wiklund C. Seasonal polyphenism in life history traits: time costs of direct development in a butterfly. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-0952-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Immonen E, Hoikkala A, Kazem AJ, Ritchie MG. When are vomiting males attractive? Sexual selection on condition-dependent nuptial feeding in Drosophila subobscura. Behav Ecol 2009. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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VÄLIMÄKI P, KIVELÄ SM, JÄÄSKELÄINEN L, KAITALA A, KAITALA V, OKSANEN J. Divergent timing of egg-laying may maintain life history polymorphism in potentially multivoltine insects in seasonal environments. J Evol Biol 2008; 21:1711-23. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01597.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kivelä SM, Välimäki P. Competition between larvae in a butterfly Pieris napi and maintenance of different life-history strategies. J Anim Ecol 2008; 77:529-39. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01371.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Abstract
Edible and seminal gifts that male arthropods transfer to their mates range from important material donations to items that provide little direct benefit. Recent reviews and research have emphasized the negative effect of gifts on female fitness, suggesting that male donations reduce the female's remating rate below her optimum or even that nuptial feeding is a net detriment to her fitness. However, comparative, experimental, and natural history evidence reveal that most edible gifts of prey or glandular products provide direct benefits to females. Gifts clearly supply nutrients when females compete for them or increase mating rates when food from other sources is limited. I point out the difficulties in determining that female remating rates are suboptimal and suggest several alternative hypotheses for the apparently low female mating rates in some gift-giving species. With regard to seminal contributions (absorbed from the ejaculate), I discuss how to separate hormonal (potentially manipulative) and material-benefit effects of male secretions on females.
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- Darryl T Gwynne
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
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Välimäki P, Kaitala A. Life history tradeoffs in relation to the degree of polyandry and developmental pathway inPieris napi(Lepidoptera, Pieridae). OIKOS 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15733.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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