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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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Female mate choice across mating stages and between sequential mates in flour beetles
Tatyana Y. Fedina,Sara M. Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that cryptic female choice during copulation reinforces precopulatory female choice in T. castaneum, and suggest that females could use cryptic choice to trade up to more attractive males, possibly gaining better phenotypic or genetic quality of sires.
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Dual reproductive cost of aging in male Medflies: dramatic decrease in mating competitiveness and gradual reduction in mating performance.
Stella A. Papanastasiou,Alexandros D. Diamantidis,Alexandros D. Diamantidis,Christos T. Nakas,James R. Carey,Nikos T. Papadopoulos +5 more
TL;DR: Aging gradually reduced the mating performance of males but older males were still accepted as mating partners in conditions lacking competition, and older males are capable of performing the complete repertoire of sexual performance but fail to be chosen by females in the presence of young rivals.
Evidence of Female Preference for Older Males in Drosophila bipectinata
TL;DR: It is suggested that irrespective of geographic strain, D. bipectinata females prefer to mate with older males, and the older of the 2 competing males had a greater mating advantage in terms of inter-male success, mated faster, copulated longer, and inseminated more females in a given unit of time compared to young and intermediate-aged males.
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True polyandry and pseudopolyandry: why does a monandrous fly remate?
TL;DR: The results illustrate the difficulties in determining the mating system of a species, even one that is well known and an excellent laboratory species, with results being highly dependent on the conditions used to assay the behaviour, and the population used.
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Remating in the laboratory reflects rates of polyandry in the wild
Tom A. R. Price,Tom A. R. Price,Zenobia Lewis,Zenobia Lewis,Damian T. Smith,Gregory D. D. Hurst,Nina Wedell +6 more
TL;DR: Wild-caught female Drosophila pseudoobscura that produced broods sired by multiple males had daughters that remated more rapidly in the laboratory, suggesting that laboratory experiments can successfully reflect differences between females’ mating behaviour in nature.