Why do females mate multiply? A review of the genetic benefits

By Michael D. Jennions, Marion Petrie. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Selected polyandry: female choice and inter-sexual conflict in a small nocturnal solitary primate (Microcebus murinus) (2004, background): “Especially in species with more than one pup per litter, females should choose multiple high-quality mates to increase genetic diversity among offspring (Berteaux et al. 1999; Jennions and Petrie 2000; Fedorkaf and Mousseau 2002).”
Patterns of multiple paternity and maternity in fishes (2011, background): “The reasons that females mate with multiple males in many species are much less obvious (Jennions & Petrie, 2000).”
Polyandry in social Hymenoptera — disunity in diversity? (2001, background): “One way that h could be lowered below 0.5 is if females are able to select which sperm fertilize their eggs in order to maximize the fitness of their offspring (Jennions & Petrie 2000).”
Mating Strategies in Relation to Sexually Selected Infanticide in a Non‐Social Carnivore: the Brown Bear (2006, background): “Other hypotheses could also explain multiple mating by females (see Jennions & Petrie 2000 for a review), for instance multi-male mating might allow females to increase the genetic diversity of their offspring, although this is controversial (Yasui 1998).”
Bumblebees as model organisms to study male sexual selection in social insects (2003, result): “A possible explanation for such postmortem cooperation by males might be that males benefit from female multiple mating in similar ways to those suggested for females (Page 1986; Sherman et al. 1988; Arnquist and Nilsson 2000; Jennions and Petrie 2000).”
Do extra‐pair paternities provide genetic benefits for female blue tits Parus caeruleus? (2004, positive): “A second group of four ‘‘genetic’’ hypotheses deals with indirect benefits whereby females accepting EPC would enhance the average genetic quality of the brood (reviews in Kempenaers and Dhondt 1993, Jennions and Petrie 2000, Griffith et al. 2002).”
Sneaking from a female perspective (2007, background): “The survival, viability and fitness advantages for offspring are often environmentally dependent, making polyandry beneficial although genetic bet-hedging (Watson 1991; Jennions & Petrie 2000).”
Reproductive mode and the genetic benefits of polyandry (2001, background): “…and immune system function (see Table 1), sexual reproduction involves the merging in embryos of parental genomes likely to vary in the extent to which they are genetically compatible (Zeh & Zeh 1996, 1997, 2000; Brown 1997; 1998; Jennions 1997; Jennions & Petrie 2000; Tregenza & Wedell 2000).”
Unifying and Testing Models of Sexual Selection (2006, background): “The insight that factors such as variance in mate quality also influence these predictions ( Johnstone et al. 1996, Owens & Thompson 1994), as well as the requirement of self-consistency, has prompted new research into sex-role reversal and choosiness by both sexes (Kokko & Johnstone 2002, Kokko &…”
Vespa velutina: a new invasive predator of honeybees in Europe (2013, background): “In social insects, polyandry may be favoured because offspring from different patrilines have increased genetic diversity (Keller and Reeve 1994; Boomsma and Ratnieks 1996; Jennions and Petrie 2000).”
Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex (2006, background): “Lactation, which among modern hunter-gatherers persists for an average of”
Multiple paternity and sperm storage lead to increased genetic diversity in Anolis lizards (2007, background): “Female A. sagrei typically lay one egg at a time (occasionally two) at approximately 10-day intervals (Jenssen and Nunez, 1998).”