Sugar-free extrapair mating: a comment on Arct et al.
Sugar-free extrapair mating: a comment on Arct et al.
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无糖额外交配:对 Arct 等人的评论
DOI:
10.1093/beheco/arv041
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Burke T
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作者:
Nakagawa S;Schroeder J;Burke T
A recent meta-analysis by Arct et al.(2015) revealed a small but significant overall positive relationship between the occurrence of extrapair paternity (EPP) and the genetic similarity between a socially paired male and female (Zr= 0.09). This finding possibly indicates that extrapair mating is a female strategy to avoid the negative consequences of inbreeding and, therefore, female extrapair mating is adaptive. Or is it? On reading this result, 3 questions came to our mind. First, how general is this finding across species? In some species, the benefits of inbreeding avoidance seem to be clear (eg, Kingma et al. 2013), whereas in others, inbreeding can be tolerated or even preferred (reviewed in Szulkin et al. 2013). Indeed, Arct et al. reported a very high overall heterogeneity (I2= 98%), which indicates that although, in an “average” species, EPP is more common in related than unrelated pairs, there are differences in inbreeding tolerance among species. One, therefore, needs to be careful about extrapolating the observed overall effect of genetic relatedness on EPP to a specific species. Second, how does a female detect her relatedness to the social partner? Given that familiar siblings rarely form social bonds in birds (but see Kingma et al. 2013), Arct et al.’s finding implies, unless the results are due to cryptic female choice driven by relatedness (eg, Løvlie et al. 2013), that female birds might be able to identify unfamiliar male siblings. Despite evidence that birds can identify unfamiliar kin (Petrie et al. 1999) and the recent discovery that some bird species could do this using olfactory cues (eg, Krause et al. 2012), current empirical evidence points to most bird species requiring direct familiarization to recognize their kin (Nakagawa and Waas 2004; Ihle and Forstmeier 2013). At least in species with multiple broods per season, females might use cues other than kinship to detect inbreeding depression (eg, unhatched eggs) in an earlier brood. Then, females can ameliorate the cost of inbreeding by deciding to seek extrapair matings, or else pursue divorce, though this might incur other costs. If females can use past broods to assess potential inbreeding depression, then EPP will be more common in later broods. Also, in this case, we can predict that species with a single brood per season would probably not show an effect on EPP of genetic similarity between partners. The hypothesis that females can use past broods to assess inbreeding depression is yet to be tested across species. Third, perhaps most importantly, do females gain indirect genetic benefits from EPP? For the scenario portrayed by Arct et al. to be adaptive for females, a female would need to mate with an extrapair male that is genetically more distant than her social partner. Hypothetically, where a female indeed has high genetic relatedness to her social mate, then even if that female mated with a random extrapair male, one would expect that male, on average, to be less related to her than the cuckolded male. However, another recent meta-analysis shows otherwise; the extrapair male (s) and the respective cuckolded male were, on average, of similar relatedness to the focal female (Zr=− 0.03; Hsu et al. 2015). This meta-analytic result by Hsu et al. intuitively contradicts the result of Arct et al., especially given that the 2 studies reviewed essentially the same literature. This counterintuitive combination of meta-analytic results might be explained by assuming 1) female extrapair matings occur mostly among neighboring males and 2) neighboring males are as closely related to the females seeking extrapair mating as the female’s social mates. Indeed, most extrapair mating seems to be with neighboring …
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发表时间:
2015
期刊:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
影响因子:
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作者:
Jussi Lehtonen;H. Kokko
通讯作者:
H. Kokko
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
M. Petrie;A. Krupa;T. Burke
通讯作者:
T. Burke
DOI:
10.1111/evo.12475
发表时间:
2014-10
期刊:
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
影响因子:
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作者:
Hsu YH;Schroeder J;Winney I;Burke T;Nakagawa S
通讯作者:
Nakagawa S
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
Hsu, Yu-Hsun;Schroeder, Julia;Nakagawa, Shinichi
通讯作者:
Nakagawa, Shinichi
DOI:
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
J. Schroeder;Shinichi Nakagawa;M. Rees;M. Mannarelli;T. Burke
通讯作者:
T. Burke