Sperm competition, male prudence and sperm-limited females

By N. Wedell, M. Gage, G. Parker. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Copulation duration, insemination efficiency and male attractiveness in guppies (2007, background): “Sperm are costly (Dewsbury 1982; Wedell et al. 2002), and males could cheat by inseminating few sperm and then jerking intensely, thus fooling the female into not mating with a different male.”
Chemosensory cues allow male Tenebrio molitor beetles to assess the reproductive status of potential mates (2004, background): “…status is common in insects (Barrows & Gordh 1978; Johnson & Hubbell 1984; Wiklund & Forsberg 1985; Bonduriansky 2001; Sauter & Brown 2001; Wedell et al. 2002; Siva-Jothy & Stutt 2003), including beetles (Barrows & Gordh 1978; Johnson & Hubbell 1984; Brown & Stanford 1992; Lewis & Iannini…”
Female egg investment in relation to male sexual traits and the potential for transgenerational effects in sexual selection (2005, background): “One alternative explanation is that small testes could lead to low sperm production and therefore reduced fertilization success (Wedell et al. 2002).”
Male mate choice: why sequential choice can make its evolution difficult (2010, background): “…that male choice is an underappreciated evolutionary force are by now so common (Amundsen & Forsgren 2001; Bonduriansky 2001; Saether et al. 2001; Wedell et al. 2002; Gowaty et al. 2003; Preston et al. 2005; Bateman & Fleming 2006; Byrne & Rice 2006; Chenoweth et al. 2007; Stoltz et al. 2007;…”
Why do sperm-depleted parasitoid males continue to mate? (2006, background): “However, sperm are mostly delivered to females in packages (i.e., ejaculates or spermatophores) and the resources needed to package sperm could be the limiting factor for male’s fitness (Dewsbury, 1982; Sella and Lorenzi, 2003; Van Voorhies, 1992; Wedell et al., 2002).”
Phenotypic plasticity in sperm production rate: there’s more to it than testis size (2007, background): “…for sperm production rate, but it has been shown that males can run out of sperm in subsequent matings (Nakatsuru and Kramer 1982; Pitnick and Markow 1994b), and that they tailor the number of sperm released in subsequent matings to different conditions (Pilastro et al. 2002; Wedell et al. 2002).”
Sperm number and velocity affect sperm competition success in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) (2011, background): “Support for this idea has been found in several taxa (for a review, see Wedell et al. 2002).”
Sexual colouration and sperm traits in guppies (2007, background): “, 1997), (2) males prudently allocate sperm during mating (Wedell et al., 2002) and (3) substantial withinspecies variation in sperm production and quality is common (Sheldon, 1994; Matthews et al.”
Human sperm competition: testis size, sperm production and rates of extrapair copulations (2004, background): “Within species, males are expected to respond to increased risk and intensity of sperm competition by adjusting the numbers of sperm ejaculated at a given mating (reviewed in Wedell et al. 2002).”
Male perception of female mating status: its effect on copulation duration, sperm defence and female fitness (2006, background): “cryptic male mate choice or strategic ejaculation), which is especially important when matings are costly to males (Dewsbury 1982; Simmons et al. 1994; Bonduriansky 2001; Wedell et al. 2002 ).”
Exposure to rivals and plastic responses to sperm competition in Drosophila melanogaster (2010, background): “Ejaculates are often costly and in limited supply, hence, males should allocate them prudently (Hihara 1981; Dewsbury 1982; Wedell et al. 2002).”
Female mating failures in insects (2010, background): “Although it is known that sexual activities often bear non-negligible costs for males (Wedell et al., 2002; Gwynne, 2008), fitness consequences of competitive interactions among females for access to males remain poorly understood (Rosenqvist & Berglund, 1992; Watson & Simmons, 2010).”
Male age, mating status and nuptial gift quality in a bushcricket (2004, background): “Reduced sperm number with consecutive matings is common (Wedell et al. 2002).”
Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems (2006, background): “…rate (e.g. female pheromones, Greenfield 1981; Phelan 1997), evolve more readily at low density or when the temporal distribution of mate availability varies unfavourably for females (Calabrese & Fagan 2004) and makes at least some females sperm-limited (Wedell et al. 2002; Preston et al. 2003).”
Bigger testes do work more: experimental evidence that testis size reflects testicular cell proliferation activity in the marine invertebrate, the free-living flatworm Macrostomum sp. (2004, methodology): “Copulation rate has also been used, but males have been shown to run out of sperm in subsequent matings (Nakatsuru and Kramer 1982; Pitnick and Markow 1994b), and to tailor the number of sperm released in subsequent matings to different conditions (Wedell et al. 2002).”