Tools
Tools
Tan, Cedric Kai Wei, Doyle, Philippa, Bagshaw, Emma, Richardson, David S. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7226-9074, Wigby, Stuart and Pizzari, Tommaso
(2017)
The contrasting role of male relatedness in different mechanisms of sexual selection in red junglefowl.
Evolution, 71 (2).
403–420.
ISSN 0014-3820
Preview |
PDF (Tan_et_al-2017-Evolution)
- Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (1MB) | Preview |
Abstract
In structured populations, competition for reproductive opportunities should be relaxed among related males. The few tests of this prediction often neglect the fact that sexual selection acts through multiple mechanisms, both before and after mating. We performed experiments to study the role of within-group male relatedness across pre- and postcopulatory mechanisms of sexual selection in social groups of red junglefowl, Gallus gallus, in which two related males and one unrelated male competed over females unrelated to all the males. We confirm theoretical expectations that, after controlling for male social status, competition over mating was reduced among related males. However, this effect was contrasted by other sexual selection mechanisms. First, females biased male mating in favor of the unrelated male, and might also favor his inseminations after mating. Second, males invested more—rather than fewer—sperm in postcopulatory competition with relatives. A number of factors may contribute to explain this counterintuitive pattern of sperm allocation, including trade-offs between male investment in pre- versus postcopulatory competition, differences in the relative relatedness of pre- versus postcopulatory competitors, and female bias in sperm utilization in response to male relatedness. Collectively, these results reveal that within-group male relatedness may have contrasting effects in different mechanisms of sexual selection.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment |
| Related URLs: | |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2017 09:36 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2023 00:32 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62402 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/evo.13145 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |