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No one will be surprised to hear that it is the difference between devoting your energy to multiple mating, on the one hand, and to nurturing offspring, on the other.
There was therefore no significant effect of multiple mating on F1 and F2 survival.
Although phenotypic diversity and offspring behavior were not measured, we found no effect of multiple mating on size at birth, growth rate, time to sexual maturity, or survival.
This does not mean that sexual conflict is irrelevant, but it shows that the effects of female multiple mating on fitness must also always be considered.
Finally, multiple mating can be non-adaptive for females in the presence of strong selection for multiple mating on males coupled with a strong intersexual genetic correlation for mating propensity [ 19].
Despite the common assumption that multiple mating should in general be favored in males, but not in females, to date there is no consensus on the general impact of multiple mating on female fitness.
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It is often assumed that multiple mating of the queens has a beneficial effect on division of labor in social insect colonies (Oldroyd and Fewell 2007).
"Given the multiple mating of honeybee queens it is unclear what the consequences of a reduction in sperm quality would actually have on queen fecundity," he said.
Quantifying the benefits of multiple mating solely on the basis of the number of offspring produced, however, may produce biased estimates of fitness.
Most studies on multiple mating have focused on the good genes and compatible genes hypotheses, whereas the genetic diversity hypothesis has received relatively little attention (but see Cohas, Yoccoz, & Allainé, 2007; McLeod & Marshall, 2009; Schmoll, Schurr, Winkel, Epplen, & Lubjuhn, 2007).
Multiple mating had no effect on survival or on the probability of producing a first brood in F0 females.
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