Fitness effects of female mate choice: preferred males are detrimental for <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> females

Friberg, Urban; Arnqvist, Göran

doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2003.00597.x

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“…2). These results suggest that the attractiveness of male phenotypes from the different lines is likely to also be affected by factors other than WIPs alone, consistent with previous studies (20)(21)(22). Alternatively, but certainly not mutually exclusively, females could, at least to some extent, detect variation in male WIP-phenotypes even in the environment with white background.…”

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Sexual selection on wing interference patterns in Drosophila melanogaster

Katayama

Abbott

Kjærandsen

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Animals with color vision use color information in intra-and interspecific communication, which in turn may drive the evolution of conspicuous colored body traits via natural and sexual selection. A recent study found that the transparent wings of small flies and wasps in lower-reflectance light environments display vivid and stable structural color patterns, called "wing interference patterns" (WIPs). Such WIPs were hypothesized to function in sexual selection among small insects with wing displays, but this has not been experimentally verified. Here, to our knowledge we present the first experimental evidence that WIPs in males of Drosophila melanogaster are targets of mate choice from females, and that two different color traits-saturation and hue-experience directional and stabilizing sexual selection, respectively. Using isogenic lines from the D. melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel, we compare attractiveness of different male WIPs against black and white visual backgrounds. We show that males with more vivid wings are more attractive to females than are males with dull wings. Wings with a large magenta area (i.e., intermediate trait values) were also preferred over those with a large blue or yellow area. These experimental results add a visual element to the Drosophila mating array, integrating sexual selection with elements of genetics and evo-devo, potentially applicable to a wide array of small insects with hyaline wings. Our results further underscore that the mode of sexual selection on such visual signals can differ profoundly between different color components, in this case hue and saturation.sexual selection | wing interference patterns | mate choice | color | signaling

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Sexual selection on wing interference patterns in Drosophila melanogaster

Katayama

Abbott

Kjærandsen

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Interestingly, these findings are at odds with previous studies that have found male body size and harm to be associated with each other [19,20]. However, in these studies body size variation was achieved by manipulating larval densities/ nutrition [19,20], while our males were reared under the standardized conditions that the IV population has evolved under for decades. It is possible that phenotypic correlations may have arisen owing to trade-offs resulting from this methodology.…”

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Genetic variation in male-induced harm in Drosophila melanogaster

Filice¹,

Long²

2016

Biol. Lett.

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In Drosophila melanogaster, prolonged exposure to males reduces the longevity and fecundity of females. This harm arises from the effects of male courtship behaviours and the toxic side effects of the accessory gland proteins (Acps) in their seminal fluids. Here, we examine the relationship between male exposure and its harmful effect on the lifetime fitness of his mates, and quantify the genetic basis for this variation. We found significant additive genetic variation in the magnitude of harm that males impose on females by exposing females to males from a variety of hemiclonal backgrounds for either a brief or prolonged period of time and measuring their fecundity, a meaningful fitness index. Furthermore, we discovered a strong negative correlation between the magnitude of harm and the short-term effects of male exposure on female fitness. We discuss the evolutionary significance of these results with regards to potential life-history trade-offs in females, and its relationship to male body size.

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“…In fact, the ''inadvertent selection'' alternative implies that mating with large males is more harmful to females, otherwise there would be no reason to expect inadvertent selection for low body size to produce a correlated response in terms of decreased harmfulness. Indeed, the existence of such association was experimentally corroborated in Drosophila melanogaster (Friberg and Arnqvist 2003). Thus, in the absence of inadvertent evolution for reduced body size, it seems that smaller size of monogamous males could result from selection for reduced male harmfulness, rather than the other way round.…”

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Evolution Under Relaxed Sexual Conflict in the Bulb Mite Rhizoglyphus Robini

Tilszer¹,

Antoszczyk²,

Ssaek³

et al. 2006

Evolution

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Abstract. The experimental evolution under different levels of sexual conflict have been used to demonstrate antagonistic coevolution in muscids, but among other taxa a similar approach has not been employed. Here, we describe the results of 37 generations of evolution under either experimentally enforced monogamy or polygamy in the bulb mite Rhizoglyphus robini. Three replicates were maintained for each treatment. Monogamy makes male and female interests congruent; thus selection is expected to decrease harmfulness of males to their partners. Our results were consistent with this prediction in that females from monogamous lines achieved lower fecundity when housed with males from polygamous lines. Fecundity of polygamous females was not affected by mating system under which their partners evolved, which suggests that they were more resistant to male-induced harm. As predicted by the antagonistic coevolution hypothesis, the decrease in harmfulness of monogamous males was accompanied by a decline in reproductive competitiveness. In contrast, female fecundity and embryonic viability, which were not expected to be correlated with male harmfulness, did not differ between monogamous and polygamous lines. None of the fitness components assayed differed between individuals obtained from crosses between parents from the same line and those obtained from crosses between parents from different lines within the same mating system. This indicates that inbreeding depression did not confound our results. However, interpretation of our results is complicated by the fact that both males and females from monogamous lines evolved smaller body size compared to individuals from polygamous lines. Although a decrease in reproductive performance of males from monogamous lines was still significant when body size was taken into account, we were not able to separate the effects of male body size and mating system in their influence on fecundity of their female partners.

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Fitness effects of female mate choice: preferred males are detrimental for Drosophila melanogaster females

Cited by 135 publications

References 111 publications

Sexual selection on wing interference patterns in Drosophila melanogaster

Sexual selection on wing interference patterns in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetic variation in male-induced harm in Drosophila melanogaster

Evolution Under Relaxed Sexual Conflict in the Bulb Mite Rhizoglyphus Robini

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