Frequency and timing of extrapair fertilisation in the polyandrous red phalarope ( Phalaropus fulicarius )

Dale, James; Montgomerie, Robert; Michaud, Denise; Boag, Peter T.

doi:10.1007/s002650050591

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“…1998; Emlen et al. 1998; Dale et al. 1999) than those reported for many socially monogamous bird species (Birkhead & Møller 1992; Westneat & Webster 1994).…”

Section: Sperm Competition and Mate Guardingmentioning

confidence: 72%

Competing Females and Caring Males. Polyandry and Sex‐Role Reversal in African Black Coucals,Centropus grillii

2004

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Most species of birds show bi-parental or female-only care. However, a minority of species is polyandrous and expresses male-only care. So far, such reversals in sex roles have been demonstrated only in precocial bird species, but there was suggestive evidence that such a mating system may occur in one altricial bird species, the black coucal, Centropus grillii. In a field study in Tanzania we investigated whether black coucals are sex-role reversed and polyandrous. We found that males were mated to one female, rarely vocalized and provided all parental care from incubation of eggs to feeding of young. In contrast, female black coucals were about 69% heavier and 39% larger than males and polyandrous. They spent a large proportion of time calling from conspicuous perches, defended breeding territories, did not help in provisioning young and had a higher potential reproductive rate than males. We conclude that the black coucal currently represents the only altricial bird species with sole male parental care and a classical polyandrous mating system. High nest predation pressure and small territory sizes due to high food abundance may have been important factors in the evolution of sex-role reversal and polyandry in this species.

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“…1998; Emlen et al. 1998; Dale et al. 1999) than those reported for many socially monogamous bird species (Birkhead & Møller 1992; Westneat & Webster 1994).…”

Section: Sperm Competition and Mate Guardingmentioning

confidence: 72%

Competing Females and Caring Males. Polyandry and Sex‐Role Reversal in African Black Coucals,Centropus grillii

2004

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“…0 to 5% of offspring and 0 to 8% of nests in Heg et al 1993, Pierce and Lifjeld 1998, Zharikov and Nol 2000, Wallander et al 2001, Blomqvist et al 2002a,b, and Küpper et al 2004, but 10 to 16% of offspring and 18 to 30% of nests in Mee et al 2004, Saracura et al 2008, Casey et al 2011). But they are lower than those of some species of polyandrous and polygynous shorebirds (Lanctot et al 1997, Dale et al 1999, Lank et al 2002) and many socially monogamous passerines (cf. Griffith et al 2002).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Genetic analysis of parentage in a few species of shorebirds has revealed considerable variation. Low to relatively high rates of extra-pair matings have been documented in lekking (Alatalo et al 1996, Lanctot et al 1997, Lank et al 2002 and polyandrous species (Oring et al 1992, Delehanty et al 1998, Dale et al 1999, Schamel et al 2004, and either no or low rates of extra-pair mating or brood parasitism have been found in socially monogamous species (Pierce and Lifjeld 1998, Zharikov and Nol 2000, Wallander et al 2001, Blomqvist et al 2002a, b, Küpper et al 2004; but see Mee et al 2004, Saracura et al 2008, Casey et al 2011. However, relatively few species have been analyzed genetically.…”

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Social and Genetic Mating System of the American Golden-Plover

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“…Likewise, social polyandry can lead to mixed paternity in one or more clutches (Fig. 2E), either because females mate simultaneously with multiple males or because sperm from a first reproductive bout can be stored and sire offspring from a second clutch, a pattern documented for role-reversed species like spotted sandpipers (Actitis macularius [Oring et al 1992] or red phalaropes (Phalaropus fulicarius [Dale et al 1999]). Although these conflict patterns resemble the basic interactions in social monogamy, a key difference in polygnandrous and polyandrous breeding systems is that all of the males are socially paired with the same female, and the conflict thus comes from within the breeding association, not from outside.…”

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Sexual Conflict Arising from Extrapair Matings in Birds

Chaine

Montgomerie

Lyon

2015

Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol

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The discovery that extrapair copulation (EPC) and extrapair paternity (EPP) are common in birds led to a paradigm shift in our understanding of the evolution of mating systems. The prevalence of extrapair matings in pair-bonded species sets the stage for sexual conflict, and a recent focus has been to consider how this conflict can shape variation in extrapair mating rates. Here, we invert the causal arrow and consider the consequences of extrapair matings for sexual conflict. Extrapair matings shift sexual conflict from a simple two-player (male vs. female) game to a game with three or more players, the nature of which we illustrate with simple diagrams that highlight the net costs and benefits of extrapair matings to each player. This approach helps identify the sorts of traits that might be under selection because of sexual conflict. Whether EPP is driven primarily by the extrapair male or the within-pair female profoundly influences which players are in conflict, but the overall pattern of conflict varies little among different mating systems. Different aspects of conflict are manifest at different stages of the breeding cycle and can be profitably considered as distinct episodes of selection caused by conflict. This perspective is illuminating both because conflict between specific players can change across episodes and because the traits that evolve to mediate conflict likely differ between episodes. Although EPP clearly leads to sexual conflict, we suggest that the link between sexual conflict and multiple paternity might be usefully understood by examining how deviations from lifetime sexual monogamy influence sexual conflict.T he development of genetic tools for determining parentage fundamentally altered our understanding of animal mating systems (Jeffreys et al. 1985;Avise 1996;Reynolds 1996) and provided invaluable insights into the consequences and causes of females mating with more than one male. Particularly for the study of birds, these methods revealed that social pair bonds often fail to match the actual patterns of copulations that produced offspring (Gowaty and Karlin 1984;Birkhead and Møller 1992;Reynolds 1996;Petrie and Kempenaers 1998), revolutionizing the study of avian mating systems. Extensive research and two recent reviews point out the progress we have made in this field and show how little we still understand extrapair behavior (Griffith et al. 2002;Westneat and Stewart 2003).

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Frequency and timing of extrapair fertilisation in the polyandrous red phalarope ( Phalaropus fulicarius )

Cited by 39 publications

References 40 publications

Competing Females and Caring Males. Polyandry and Sex‐Role Reversal in African Black Coucals,Centropus grillii

Competing Females and Caring Males. Polyandry and Sex‐Role Reversal in African Black Coucals,Centropus grillii

Social and Genetic Mating System of the American Golden-Plover

Sexual Conflict Arising from Extrapair Matings in Birds

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