期刊
MARINE ECOLOGY-AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
卷 37, 期 5, 页码 1073-1078出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12364
关键词
Microsatellite; multiple paternity; Octopus minor; progeny; sperm competition
资金
- National Science Funding of China [31172058]
- National Marine Public Welfare Research Project of China [201305043]
Multiple paternity was assessed in Octopus minor using microsatellite DNA markers. Octopus minor adults were captured in traps and kept in indoor cement ponds. The females spawned after several days. Ten broods (B1-B10), each containing 15 embryos and the maternal octopus, were maintained until the embryos reached the stage at which DNA could be extracted and used for genotyping. Multiple paternity was tested using five microsatellite DNA markers and the results proved the hypothesis that multiple paternity occurs in O.minor (observed in six out of the 10 broods). Analysis with GERUD software gave the minimum number of fathers and showed that four broods were sired by a single male, three were sired by two different males and three were sired by three different males. In brood B10, the number of fathers identified by the single-locus method was one fewer than that by the GERUD method. Of the six multiple paternity broods, four (66.7%) showed significant skew from equal paternal contributions, which indicated that sperm competition and/or cryptic female choice may be important for post-copulatory paternity bias in this species.
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