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Matings may be repeated several times and may take place twice or more times within a minute.

It suggests that even in non-social species, the potential costs of matched matings may be strong enough to favour mechanisms of sib-mating avoidance in the field.

We experimentally manipulated rearing conditions and showed that potential benefits from extra-pair matings may be revealed only in a more competitive environment.

However, multiple matings may be costly for individuals in terms of reducing fecundity (Sirot and Brockmann 2001; Johnson and Brockmann 2010; Oku 2010; Ronkainen et al. 2010) or longevity (Arnqvist and Nilsson 2000).

Our result is consistent with some previous studies on passerine bird species showing that genetic benefits from extra-pair matings may be revealed only under relatively poor environmental conditions (Schmoll et al. 2003; Garvin et al. 2006; Edler and Friedl 2008).

While fetal loss in δD910A females mated with syngeneic males was independent of adaptive B or T cells capable of responding to fetal antigens, we would hypothesize that p110δ inactivation in allogeneic matings may be even more detrimental to fetal survival, as Treg function is crucial in this setting (Rowe et al., 2012, Samstein et al., 2012).

One aspect of heterospecific matings that may be important in determining the extent of sperm transfer is copulation duration.

Moreover pre-mating isolation may be more effective at maintaining morphological differentiation between divergent populations.

Biologically, the source of a gradient (e.g. yeast mating partner) may be moving with respect to the sensing cell.

Thus, if we think of biparental care as a form of cooperation (offspring being a public good shared by the parents), we might expect that people who display a cooperative or helpful phenotype in non-mating contexts may be perceived as more likely to cooperate in a care context and thus more desirable as sexual partners.

Since several mating-induced genes are sex-determination hierarchy target genes, additional mating-responsive loci may be downstream components of this pathway as well.