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The fact that male:female sex ratios in field populations of O. davisae are about 1∶10 combined with the low mating capacity of males (on average 5 life-time matings per male in a predator-free environment) indeed suggests that a large fraction of the females in a population will never be mated and that fertilization limitation is severe, as suggested earlier [35].
To characterize male mating capacity of S. gregaria, regular (n = 10) and irradiated (n = 8) mature males were provided with a succession of mating opportunities.
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Suspicious colonies were further analyzed be determination of mating capacity and auxotrophic markers.
To simulate the situation where a fraction of the females remains unmated (p), we simulated several scenarios first where males had an unlimited mating capacity and all females in the population would be inseminated, next we simulated the spread of fertilization mutation (n = 0) when we restricted the males mating capacity (mm) to 15, 10, 5 and 1 female(s) per male respectively.
In their gamete stage the three types of cells differ in their mating capacities as represented by different configurations of recognition molecules on the cell surface, as shown on Fig. 4. The first gamete type G1 is 'pan-sexual' and can mate with any potential partner including its own type, while the other two, G2 and G3, are mating types, unable to mate with their own kind.
Interestingly in the simulations, the limitation of the male mating capacity resulted in two effects: 1). the infection frequency went to a much higher level within a few generations, this is caused by a lower production of uninfected females by a).
However, given that mating is usually likely to entail a net benefit compared with not mating (the potential to sire some offspring versus none), our results also imply there must be limits to male mating capacity, which is central to the emergence of male mate choice (Dewsbury 1982; Edward and Chapman 2011).
In a second experiment, we studied the affect of mating history on male mating capacity.
Males have a low mating capacity.
The operator stays behind his team-mates in the capacity of what might be called a cooler and exercises upon the mark the art of consolation.
Encompasses mating ability, fertilization capacity, fecundity and survival.
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