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MARINE ECOLOGY-AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
卷 37, 期 4, 页码 737-749出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12338
关键词
Female receptivity duration; female size; male size; operational sex ratio; sperm allocation strategies; sperm limitation
资金
- Universidad Nacional Mar del Plata [EXA 618/12]
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) [PIP 830]
- CONICET
Sperm reserves are costly to produce and so the development of different sperm allocation strategies may be advantageous. Knowledge of sperm allocation strategies is important from an evolutionary perspective because they contribute to characterize mating systems. However, population differences in sperm allocation strategies of the same species have rarely been assessed. Here, we studied the male sperm allocation strategies in two different populations of Neohelice granulata in Mar Chiquita Lagoon (MCL) and San Antonio Oeste (SAO), Argentina. We found that the quantity of ejaculate transferred by N. granulata males depended on different factors such as male size and female receptivity duration, while it was independent of female size, at both study areas. Regarding the operational sex ratio factor, the amount of ejaculate transferred depended on it in MCL but not in SAO. Thus, N.granulata males may have the capacity to regulate the quantity of ejaculate transferred based on individual factors such as their own size and female receptivity duration, and population factors such as operational sex ratio, which varies in the two populations studied.
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