Female extrapair mating behavior can evolve via indirect selection on males

Forstmeier, Wolfgang; Martin, Katrin; Bolund, Elisabeth; Schielzeth, Holger; Kempenaers, Bart

doi:10.1073/pnas.1103195108

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“…An interesting evolutionary implication of this sex difference is that the plastic sex (females) might become more shielded from genetic evolution of mate preferences than the less plastic sex (males) [13], a prediction that should be investigated in future quantitative genetic and selection studies in this area. A recent study on sex-specific mate preferences in birds found evidence for an evolutionary constraint in the form of an intersexual genetic correlation and shared inheritance of mating behaviours of males and females [51]. By contrast, another recent study on the fruit fly Drosophila serrata found no evidence of a genetic correlation between male and female mate preferences, strongly suggesting that in this insect, different sets of loci govern male and female mate preferences [52].…”

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Sex differences in developmental plasticity and canalization shape population divergence in mate preferences

et al. 2014

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Sexual selection of high-quality mates can conflict with species recognition if traits that govern intraspecific mate preferences also influence interspecific recognition. This conflict might be resolved by developmental plasticity and learned mate preferences, which could drive preference divergence in populations that differ in local species composition. We integrate field and laboratory experiments on two calopterygid damselfly species with population genetic data to investigate how sex differences in developmental plasticity affect population divergence in the face of gene flow. Whereas male species recognition is fixed at emergence, females instead learn to recognize heterospecifics. Females are therefore more plastic in their mate preferences than males. We suggest that this results from sex differences in the balance between sexual selection for high-quality mates and selection for species recognition. As a result of these sex differences, females develop more pronounced population divergence in their mate preferences compared with males. Local ecological community context and presence of heterospecifics in combination with sex differences in plasticity and canalization therefore shape population divergence in mate preferences. As ongoing environmental change and habitat fragmentation bring formerly allopatric species into secondary contact, developmental plasticity of mate preferences in either or both sexes might facilitate coexistence and prevent local species extinction.

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Sex differences in developmental plasticity and canalization shape population divergence in mate preferences

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“…This may indicate that there is no additive genetic variation for extra-pair mating by females, either as a result of strong past selection, or because extra-pair matings are initiated opportunistically by males. Similarly, the fact that extrapair fathers are not more likely to have daughters that engage in extra-pair mating suggests that female and male participation in extra-pair behaviour may not share a common genetic basis as it does in zebra finches [56]. Alternatively, if female F 1 EPO are of higher quality, as indicated by their increased reproductive success, it may be the case that they are more likely to pair with preferred high-quality or compatible social males, and therefore would not gain an additional genetic benefit from mating with extra-pair males.…”

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Promiscuous mating produces offspring with higher lifetime fitness

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In many species, each female pairs with a single male for the purpose of rearing offspring, but may also engage in extra-pair copulations. Despite the prevalence of such promiscuity, whether and how multiple mating benefits females remains an open question. Multiple mating is typically thought to be favoured primarily through indirect benefits (i.e. heritable effects on the fitness of offspring). This prediction has been repeatedly tested in a variety of species, but the evidence has been equivocal, perhaps because such studies have focused on pre-reproductive survival rather than lifetime fitness of offspring. Here, we show that in a songbird, the dark-eyed junco ( Junco hyemalis), both male and female offspring produced by extra-pair fertilizations have higher lifetime reproductive success than do offspring sired within the social pair. Furthermore, adult male offspring sired via extra-pair matings are more likely to sire extrapair offspring (EPO) themselves, suggesting that fitness benefits to males accrue primarily through enhanced mating success. By contrast, female EPO benefited primarily through enhanced fecundity. Our results provide strong support for the hypothesis that the evolution of extra-pair mating by females is favoured by indirect benefits and shows that such benefits accrue much later in the offspring's life than previously documented.

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“…don 2000; Pilastro et al 2003;Matessi et al 2009;Morales et al 2009). If females differ consistently in the number of EPO in their broods, and the quantity of EPO is associated with individual quality (Forstmeier et al 2011), then a misleading association with paternal care can result ( fig. 1D).…”

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Predictably Philandering Females Prompt Poor Paternal Provisioning

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Hsu

Winney

et al. 2016

The American Naturalist

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Dryad data: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0t313.abstract: One predicted cost of female infidelity in socially monogamous species is that cuckolded males should provide less parental care. This relationship is robust across species, but evidence is ambiguous within species. We do not know whether individual males reduce their care when paired with cheating females compared with when paired with faithful females (within-male adjustment) or, alternatively, if the males that pair with cheating females are the same males that provide less parental care in general (between-male effect). Our exceptionally extensive long-term data set of repeated observations of a wild passerine allows us to disentangle paternal care adjustment within males-within pairs and between males-while accounting for environmental variables. We found a within-male adjustment of paternal provisioning, but not incubation effort, relative to the cuckoldry in their nest. This effect was mainly driven by females differing consistently in their fidelity. There was no evidence that this within-male adjustment also took place across broods with the same female, and we found no between-male effect. Interestingly, males that gained more extrapair paternity provided less care. Data from a cross-foster experiment suggested that males did not use kin recognition to assess paternity. Our results provide insight into the role of individual variation in parental care and mating systems.

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Female extrapair mating behavior can evolve via indirect selection on males

Cited by 186 publications

References 57 publications

Sex differences in developmental plasticity and canalization shape population divergence in mate preferences

Sex differences in developmental plasticity and canalization shape population divergence in mate preferences

Promiscuous mating produces offspring with higher lifetime fitness

Predictably Philandering Females Prompt Poor Paternal Provisioning

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