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Age-based mate choice in the monandrous fruit fly Drosophila subobscura
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It is suggested that age-based preference by females can be consistent across populations with very different environments, even when those populations differ in other key mating-related traits such as offspring production and copulation duration.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 2015-04-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mating system & Mate choice.read more
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The impact of ageing on male reproductive success in Drosophila melanogaster
TL;DR: It is suggested that ejaculates of older males are less effective at inducing beneficial responses and that older male flies produce smaller or ill‐composed ejaculates, significantly affecting his reproductive success.
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Resistance to natural and synthetic gene drive systems.
Tom A. R. Price,Nikolai Windbichler,Robert L. Unckless,Andreas Sutter,Jan-Niklas Runge,Perran A. Ross,Andrew Pomiankowski,Nicole L. Nuckolls,Catherine Montchamp-Moreau,Nicole Mideo,Oliver Martin,Andri Manser,Mathieu Legros,Amanda M. Larracuente,Luke Holman,John Godwin,Neil J. Gemmell,Cécile Courret,Cécile Courret,Anna Buchman,Luke G. Barrett,Anna K. Lindholm +21 more
TL;DR: This review summarizes the current knowledge of drive resistance in both natural and synthetic gene drives and explores how insights from naturally occurring and synthetic drive systems can be integrated to improve the design of gene drives, better predict the outcome of releases and understand genomic conflict in general.
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Designing mate choice experiments
TL;DR: There is no single ‘correct’ approach to measuring choice across species, although ecological relevance is crucial if the aim is to understand how choice acts in natural populations, and the need for quantitative estimates of the sizes of potentially important effects is highlighted.
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Gene expression changes in male accessory glands during ageing are accompanied by reproductive decline in Drosophila melanogaster.
Mareike Koppik,Claudia Fricke +1 more
TL;DR: Male reproductive senescence is associated with a decline in functionality of the male accessory gland and the composition of an ejaculate might change with male age as the rate of change was variable for those five genes.
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Differing effects of age and starvation on reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster.
TL;DR: The results indicate that the immediate costs of mating differ between males and females, and that the sexes differ in their perception of the opportunity cost sustained by refusing a mating opportunity, and support the idea that ageing has more wide-ranging impact on reproductive behaviours than does nutritional challenge.
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Male Age Affects Female Mate Preference and Reproductive Performance in the Cabbage Beetle, Colaphellus bowringi
TL;DR: It is suggested that middle-aged males are more advantageous for female fitness than young and old males.
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Age-Related Male Reproductive Investment in Courtship Display and Nuptial Gifts in a Moth, Ostrinia scapulalis
TL;DR: Investigation of age-related changes in male reproductive investment towards courtship display and the spermatophore in three age classes of a monandrous moth revealed that middle-aged males had a higher success rate than young males because of their higher courtship frequency rather than any female preference for them.
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Dissecting the mechanisms underlying old male mating advantage in a butterfly
TL;DR: It is suggested that male behavior may play a primary role in old male mating advantage, and that pheromones are likely of secondary importance only, in the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana.
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Female Medflies Mate Selectively with Young Males but Gain No Apparent Fitness Benefits
TL;DR: Although young females showed mate selectivity, it was found that there were no differences in fecundity, fertility, or larval viability between young females mated to 10 versus 40 day old males.
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Age-dependent male mating investment in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
Sumit Dhole,Karin S. Pfennig +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that male and female ages interact to form a complex pattern of age-specific male mating investment and fitness, and larger male mating investments resulted in higher fitness payoffs.