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Cross-generational comparison of reproductive success in recently caught strains of Drosophila melanogaster

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Title
Cross-generational comparison of reproductive success in recently caught strains of Drosophila melanogaster
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, February 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12862-017-0887-1
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Trinh T. X. Nguyen, Amanda J. Moehring

Abstract

Males and females often have opposing strategies for increasing fitness. Males that out-compete others will acquire more mating opportunities and thus have higher lifetime reproductive success. Females that mate with a high quality male receive either direct benefits through productivity or acquisition of additional resources or indirect benefits through the increased fitness of offspring. These components may be in conflict: factors that increase offspring fitness may decrease a female's productivity, and alleles that are beneficial in one sex may be detrimental in the opposite sex. Here, we use a multigenerational study with recently caught strains of Drosophila melanogaster to examine the relationship between parental, male offspring, and female offspring fitness when fitness is measured in a basal non-competitive environment. We find synergy between parental and offspring lifetime reproductive success, indicating a lack of parent-offspring conflict, and a synergy between son and daughter reproductive success, indicating a lack of intersexual conflict. Interestingly, inbreeding significantly reduced the lifetime reproductive success of daughters, but did not have a significant effect on short-term productivity measures of daughters, sons or parents. In wild-caught flies, there appears to be no parent-offspring conflict or intersexual conflict for loci influencing offspring production in a anon-competitive environment. Further, there may not be a biologically relevant selection pressure for avoidance of inbreeding depression in wild-type individuals of this short-lived species.

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Switzerland 1 8%
Unknown 12 92%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 31%
Other 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Researcher 1 8%
Other 2 15%
Unknown 3 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 23%
Social Sciences 2 15%
Psychology 1 8%
Unknown 4 31%
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