Journal
JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 2046-2056Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12445
Keywords
life-history trade-off; multiple mating; paternity success; polyandry; polygyny; quantitative genetics; reproductive strategy; sexual selection
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- European Research Council, Marie Curie Actions
- UK Royal Society
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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The evolutionary trajectories of reproductive systems, including both male and female multiple mating and hence polygyny and polyandry, are expected to depend on the additive genetic variances and covariances in and among components of male reproductive success achieved through different reproductive tactics. However, genetic covariances among key components of male reproductive success have not been estimated in wild populations. We used comprehensive paternity data from socially monogamous but genetically polygynandrous song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) to estimate additive genetic variance and covariance in the total number of offspring a male sired per year outside his social pairings (i.e. his total extra-pair reproductive success achieved through multiple mating) and his liability to sire offspring produced by his socially paired female (i.e. his success in defending within-pair paternity). Both components of male fitness showed nonzero additive genetic variance, and the estimated genetic covariance was positive, implying that males with high additive genetic value for extra-pair reproduction also have high additive genetic propensity to sire their socially paired female's offspring. There was consequently no evidence of a genetic or phenotypic trade-off between male within-pair paternity success and extra-pair reproductive success. Such positive genetic covariance might be expected to facilitate ongoing evolution of polygyny and could also shape the ongoing evolution of polyandry through indirect selection.
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