期刊
EVOLUTION
卷 63, 期 10, 页码 2730-2737出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00753.x
关键词
Sexual selection; sperm competition; sperm size; sperm swimming speed; sperm trait heritability
资金
- University of Sheffield Ph.D. Project Studentship
- Leverhulme Trust
- NERC Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship
- BBSRC [BB/E017509/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/B500690/3] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E017509/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/B500690/3] Funding Source: researchfish
Sperm morphology (size and shape) and sperm velocity are both positively associated with fertilization success, and are expected to be under strong selection. Until recently, evidence for a link between sperm morphology and velocity was lacking, but recent comparative studies have shown that species with high levels of sperm competition have evolved long and fast sperm. It is therefore surprising that evidence for a phenotypic or genetic relationship between length and velocity within species is equivocal, even though sperm competition is played out in the intraspecific arena. Here, we first show that sperm velocity is positively phenotypically correlated with measures of sperm length in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. Second, by using the quantitative genetic animal model on a dataset from a multigenerational-pedigreed population, we show that sperm velocity is heritable, and positively genetically correlated to a number of heritable components of sperm length. Therefore, selection for faster sperm will simultaneously lead to the evolution of longer sperm (and vice versa). Our results provide, for the first time, a clear phenotypic and genetic link between sperm length and velocity, which has broad implications for understanding how recently described macroevolutionary patterns in sperm traits have evolved.
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