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Journal Article
Predictors of male insemination success in the mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)
2015
Overview
Identifying targets of selection is key to understanding the evolution of sexually selected behavioral and morphological traits. Many animals have coercive mating, yet little is known about whether and how mate choice operates when these are the dominant mating tactic. Here, we use multivariate selection analysis to examine the direction and shape of selection on male insemination success in the mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). We found direct selection on only one of five measured traits, but correlational selection involving all five traits. Larger males with longer gonopodia and with intermediate sperm counts were more likely to inseminate females than smaller males with shorter gonopodia and extreme sperm counts. Our results highlight the need to investigate sexual selection using a multivariate framework even in species that lack complex sexual signals. Further, female choice appears to be important in driving the evolution of male sexual traits in this species where sexual coercion is the dominant mating tactic. In mating systems that are dominated by male sexual coercion, little is known about how female mate choice contributes to sexual selection. Our results suggest that female mate choice is important in determining net sexual selection in a sexually coercive species when the effects of male–male competition are excluded.
