Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate?

Engqvist L (2007)
Evolutionary Ecology 21(1): 49-61.

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In the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata, males provide females with saliva secretions as nuptial food gifts. Consequently, females derive material benefits and possibly also genetic benefits from multiple matings. Females therefore generally should have a high motivation to remate. Males, on the other hand, do not share this interest, which will generate a sexual conflict over remating interval, possibly leading to male adaptations that prevent females from remating with other males. In this study, I found that mated females were less prone to copulate than virgin females, despite female benefits of multiple matings. Further, I found that the remating interval was significantly longer if the first copulation was long compared to shorter matings. This effect does not entirely depend on copulation duration per se, but on the amount of saliva, that a female is consuming during copulation. These results suggest a mating-induced refractory period and can be interpreted as male manipulation of female remating behaviour mediated through substances in the nuptial gift. Alternatively, receiving large nuptial gifts may decrease the prospective direct fitness benefits from further copulations, and thus change optimal female remating rate. Furthermore, gift size has been shown to correlate with male nutritional condition, which may be an indicator of male genetic quality. Females may therefore benefit indirectly by not remating following copulations involving large saliva gifts. In this scenario, female remating interval would be an effect of cryptic female choice.
Stichworte
cryptic female choice; panorpa; sperm competition; postcopulatory sexual selection; sexual conflict; nuptial food gifts; mecoptera
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Zeitschriftentitel
Evolutionary Ecology
Band
21
Ausgabe
1
Seite(n)
49-61
ISSN
0269-7653
eISSN
1573-8477
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2395684

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Engqvist L. Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate? Evolutionary Ecology. 2007;21(1):49-61.
Engqvist, L. (2007). Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate? Evolutionary Ecology, 21(1), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-006-9123-y
Engqvist, Leif. 2007. “Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate?”. Evolutionary Ecology 21 (1): 49-61.
Engqvist, L. (2007). Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate? Evolutionary Ecology 21, 49-61.
Engqvist, L., 2007. Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate? Evolutionary Ecology, 21(1), p 49-61.
L. Engqvist, “Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate?”, Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 21, 2007, pp. 49-61.
Engqvist, L.: Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate? Evolutionary Ecology. 21, 49-61 (2007).
Engqvist, Leif. “Nuptial gift consumption influences female remating in a scorpionfly: male or female control of mating rate?”. Evolutionary Ecology 21.1 (2007): 49-61.
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