Evolutionarily stable reproductive strategies in sexual organisms .2. Dioecy and optimal resource allocation
Evolutionarily stable reproductive strategies in sexual organisms .2. Dioecy and optimal resource allocation
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DOI:
10.1086/285898
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发表时间:
1996-06-01
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2.9
通讯作者:
Zhao, SL
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作者:
Zhang, DY;Jiang, XH;Zhao, SL
1116 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST species in mind. Here we, as elsewhere,(Zhang and Wang 1994), can only treat overlapping generations without age structure; that is, age has no effect on adult rates of survival and reproduction. We will rely on single-locus theory as the argument to find the ESS resource allocation in a constant, density-independent environment (Charnov 1982, 1988; Stearns 1992). Males and females are considered separately. Total resources available to an individual are limited and with possible sex differences. A male divides the resources into two categories: the production of pollen and postbreeding survival. By contrast, a female is assumed to have to divide total available resources into three competing functions: the production of sons, the production of daughters, and postbreeding survival. At an autosomal ocus controlling resource allocation for both males and females, let the female (male) of the common homozygote(AA) allocate a propor-tion E (H) of total resource to reproduction and 1-E (1-H) to survival. For females, among the resources that are allocated to reproduction are proportions r to sons and 1-r to daughters. Hence, in our model there are three decision variables, two for females and one for males. Consider the fate of a rare mutant allele (B) that causes female heterozygotes AB to allocate a proportion E'of total resources to reproduction and r'of the reproductive allocation to sons, and male heterozygotes AB to allocate a resource fraction H'to pollen production and 1-H'to postbreeding survival. While the mutant is rare, we need only consider the spread of the heterozygote(AB) to know whether the current resource allocation pattern, E, r, and H, is stable to invasion by some new resource allocation patterns (E', r', and H'). Let the female population of homozygotes(AA) be of size Nf (T) and the male of size Nm (T) at time T. Define Pf as yearly female adult survival, Pm as yearly male adult survival, f as the effective number of daughters produced by a female (ie, the number of female Ioffspring counted at adulthood), m as the effective number of sons produced by a female, and g as the amount of pollen produced by a male. These parameters are assumed to be a function of their respective resource input. There-fore, we can write Pf= Pf (l-E), Pm= Pm (I-H), g= g (H), m= m (Er), and f= f (E [l-r]). Genotype AB differs from AA in the resource allocation and hence in the values of these parameters, denoted by a prime symbol. Following Charlesworth(1980) and Charnov (1982), we assume that the fertility of a female is not limited by pollen availability. The yearly dynamics of the female population and the male population of AA can be described as follows: