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The repeatability of mating failure in a polyandrous bug

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Date
08/2015
Author
Greenway, Elisabeth Virginia
Shuker, David Michael
Keywords
Sexual selection
Polyandry
Insect reproduction
Mating failure
QH301 Biology
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Abstract
Mating failure, characterised by the lack of production of offspring following copulation, is relatively common across taxa yet is little understood. It is unclear if mating failures are stochastic occurrences between incompatible mating partners or represent a persistent, meaningful phenotype on the part of one or other sex. Here we test this in the seed bug Lygaeus simulans, by sequentially mating families of males with randomly-allocated unrelated females and calculating the repeatability of mating outcome for each individual male and family. Mating outcome is significantly repeatable within individual males but not across full-sib brothers. We conclude that mating failure represents a consistent male-associated phenotype with low heritability in this species, affected by as yet undetermined environmental influences on males.
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Greenway , E V & Shuker , D M 2015 , ' The repeatability of mating failure in a polyandrous bug ' , Journal of Evolutionary Biology , vol. 28 , no. 8 , pp. 1578-1582 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12678
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12678
ISSN
1010-061X
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 The Authors. Journal of Evolutionary Biology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society for Evolutionary Biology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: NERC DTG ABE1-NERC13
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7015

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