Evidence for Strategic Sex Allocation in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata): Brood Sex Ratio and Size Predict Subsequent Adult Male Mating Success

Ethology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aya Sato ◽  
Kenji Karino
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Sex Allocation ◽  
Poecilia Reticulata ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Male Mating Success ◽  
Brood Sex Ratio

scholarly journals Evolution of sex ratio through gene loss

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (26) ◽  
pp. 12919-12924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da Yin ◽  
Eric S. Haag
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Mating System ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Population Subdivision ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Mixed Mating ◽  
Male Mating Success ◽  
Caenorhabditis Briggsae ◽  
Male Frequency

The maintenance of males at intermediate frequencies is an important evolutionary problem. Several species ofCaenorhabditisnematodes have evolved a mating system in which selfing hermaphrodites and males coexist. While selfing produces XX hermaphrodites, cross-fertilization produces 50% XO male progeny. Thus, male mating success dictates the sex ratio. Here, we focus on the contribution of themale secreted short(mss) gene family to male mating success, sex ratio, and population growth. Themssfamily is essential for sperm competitiveness in gonochoristic species, but has been lost in parallel in androdioecious species. Using a transgene to restoremssfunction to the androdioeciousCaenorhabditis briggsae,we examined how mating system and population subdivision influence the fitness of themss+genotype. Consistent with theoretical expectations, whenmss+andmss-null (i.e., wild type) genotypes compete,mss+is positively selected in both mixed-mating and strictly outcrossing situations, though more strongly in the latter. Thus, while sexual mode alone affects the fitness ofmss+, it is insufficient to explain its parallel loss. However, in genetically homogenous androdioecious populations,mss+both increases male frequency and depresses population growth. We propose that the lack of inbreeding depression and the strong subdivision that characterize naturalCaenorhabditispopulations impose selection on sex ratio that makes loss ofmssadaptive after self-fertility evolves.

Biased sex ratio and low population density increase male mating success in the bug Nysius huttoni (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae)

2008 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiao Wang ◽  
Xiong Zhao He ◽  
Linghuan Yang ◽  
Duncan Hedderley ◽  
Lorraine K. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Density Increase ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Male Mating Success ◽  
Biased Sex Ratio

scholarly journals Experimental evolution under varying sex ratio and nutrient availability modulates male mating success in Drosophila melanogaster

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irem Sepil ◽  
Jennifer C. Perry ◽  
Alice Dore ◽  
Tracey Chapman ◽  
Stuart Wigby
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Experimental Evolution ◽  
Sex Ratios ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Male Mating Success ◽  
Restricted Diet ◽  
Protein Restricted Diet

AbstractBiased population sex ratios can alter optimal male mating strategies, and allocation to reproductive traits depends on nutrient availability. However, there is little information on how nutrition interacts with sex ratio to influence the evolution of pre-copulatory and post-copulatory traits separately. To address this omission, here we test how male mating success and reproductive investment evolve under varying sex ratios and adult diet in Drosophila melanogaster using an experimental evolution approach. We found that sex ratio and nutrient availability interacted to determine male pre-copulatory performance. Males from female-biased populations were slow to mate when they evolved on a protein-restricted diet. On the other hand, we found direct and non-interacting effects of sex ratio and nutrient availability on post-copulatory success, without interactions between them. Males that evolved on a protein-restricted diet were poor at suppressing female remating. Males that evolved under equal sex ratios fathered more offspring and were better at supressing female remating, relative to males from male-biased or female-biased populations. These results support the idea that sex ratios and nutrition interact to determine the evolution of pre-copulatory mating traits, but independently influence the evolution of post-copulatory traits.

Longevity and Male Mating Success in Drosophila pseudoobscura

1981 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 1035-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Taylor ◽  
Cindra Condra ◽  
Michael Conconi ◽  
Mary Prout
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
Drosophila Pseudoobscura ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Male Mating Success

scholarly journals ADAPTATION AT SPECIFIC LOCI. IV. DIFFERENTIAL MATING SUCCESS AMONG GLYCOLYTIC ALLOZYME GENOTYPES OF COLIAS BUTTERFLIES

Genetics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
Ward B Watt ◽  
Patrick A Carter ◽  
Sally M Blower
Keyword(s):  
Mating Success ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Heterozygote Advantage ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Genotype Distribution ◽  
Male Mating Success ◽  
Evolutionary Forces ◽  
Fitness Index ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Specific Variation

ABSTRACT Male mating success as a function of genotype is an important fitness component. It can be studied in wild populations, in species for which a given group of progeny has exactly one father, by determining genotypes of wild-caught mothers and of sufficient numbers of their progeny. Here, we study male mating success as a function of allozyme genotype at two glycolytic loci in Colias butterflies, in which sperm precedence is complete, so that the most recent male to mate fathers all of a female's subsequent progeny.—For the phosphoglucose isomerase, PGI, polymorphism, we predict mating advantage and disadvantage of male genotypes based on evaluation of their biochemical functional differences in the context of thermal-physiological-ecological constraints on the insects' flight activity. As predicted, we find major, significant advantage in mating success for kinetically favored genotypes, compared to the genotype distribution of males active with the sampled females in the wild. These effects are repeatable among samples and on different semispecies' genetic backgrounds.—Initial study of the phosphoglucomutase, PGM, polymorphism in the same samples reveals heterozygote advantage in male-mating success, compared to males active with the females sampled. This contrasts with a lack of correspondence between PGI and PGM genotypes in other fitness index or component differences.—Epistatic interactions in mating success between the two loci are absent.—There is no evidence for segregation distortion associated with the alleles of either primary locus studied, nor is there significant assortative mating.—These results extend our understanding of the specific variation studied and suggest that even loci closely related in function may have distinctive experience of evolutionary forces. Implications of the specificity of the effects seen are briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Male competition and the evolution of mating and life-history traits in experimental populations of Aedes aegypti

2019 ◽  
Vol 286 (1904) ◽  
pp. 20190591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alima Qureshi ◽  
Andrew Aldersley ◽  
Brian Hollis ◽  
Alongkot Ponlawat ◽  
Lauren J. Cator
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Male Competition ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Male Mating Success ◽  
Reproductive Control ◽  
Evolutionary Response ◽  
Mating Conditions

Aedes aegypti is an important disease vector and a major target of reproductive control efforts. We manipulated the opportunity for sexual selection in populations of Ae . aegypti by controlling the number of males competing for a single female. Populations exposed to higher levels of male competition rapidly evolved higher male competitive mating success relative to populations evolved in the absence of competition, with an evolutionary response visible after only five generations. We also detected correlated evolution in other important mating and life-history traits, such as acoustic signalling, fecundity and body size. Our results indicate that there is ample segregating variation for determinants of male mating competitiveness in wild populations and that increased male mating success trades-off with other important life-history traits. The mating conditions imposed on laboratory-reared mosquitoes are likely a significant determinant of male mating success in populations destined for release.

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