CRITERIA FOR DEMONSTRATING FEMALE SPERM CHOICE
CRITERIA FOR DEMONSTRATING FEMALE SPERM CHOICE
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展示女性精子选择的标准
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
W. D. Brown
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作者:
S. Pitnick;W. D. Brown
Females may base their choice of sperm on male attractiveness or on genetic (in)compatibility with the male. Evidence is accumulating that male and female genotype both affect fertilization success (Wedekind et al. 1996, Clark et al. 1999). If female sperm choice is a mechanism to avoid the negative effects of inbreeding (as the studies reviewed in Birkhead 1998 suggest), one could perform P2-experiments using groups of related versus unrelated females. Such an example is provided by Wilson et al. (1997) and discussed in Birkhead (1998). A recent study on decorated field crickets (Gryllodes supplicans) used a different approach (Stockley 1999). In this study, each female of a sibling pair was allowed to copulate first with a sibling male, followed by either another sibling male or a nonsibling. The paternity obtained by the first sibling male (P1 value) was lower when the second male was a nonsibling, providing some evidence for female sperm choice based on genetic similarity (Stockley 1999).