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dc.contributor.authorWedell, Nina
dc.contributor.authorWiklund, Christer
dc.contributor.authorBergström, Jonas
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-17T15:21:34Z
dc.date.issued2009-10-23
dc.description.abstractSexual conflict can promote rapid evolution of male and female reproductive traits. Males of many polyandrous butterflies transfer nutrients at mating that enhances female fecundity, but generates sexual conflict over female remating due to sperm competition. Butterflies produce both normal fertilizing sperm and large numbers of non-fertile sperm. In the green-veined white butterfly, Pieris napi, non-fertile sperm fill the females' sperm storage organ, switching off receptivity and thereby reducing female remating. There is genetic variation in the number of non-fertile sperm stored, which directly relates to the female's refractory period. There is also genetic variation in males' sperm production. Here, we show that females' refractory period and males' sperm production are genetically correlated using quantitative genetic and selection experiments. Thus selection on male manipulation may increase the frequency of susceptible females to such manipulations as a correlated response and vice versa.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipNatural Environment Research Council (NERC)en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Royal Societyen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 5, No. 5, pp. 678 - 681en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rsbl.2009.0452
dc.identifier.otherrsbl.2009.0452
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/17928
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherRoyal Society, Theen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19640869en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/5/678en_GB
dc.rights© 2009 The Royal Society This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_GB
dc.subjectAnimalsen_GB
dc.subjectBiological Evolutionen_GB
dc.subjectButterfliesen_GB
dc.subjectFemaleen_GB
dc.subjectFertilityen_GB
dc.subjectMaleen_GB
dc.subjectSelection, Geneticen_GB
dc.subjectSexual Behavior, Animalen_GB
dc.subjectSpermatozoaen_GB
dc.subjectTime Factorsen_GB
dc.titleCoevolution of non-fertile sperm and female receptivity in a butterfly.en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2015-07-17T15:21:34Z
dc.identifier.issn1744-9561
exeter.place-of-publicationEngland
dc.descriptionJournal Articleen_GB
dc.descriptionPublished versionen_GB
dc.descriptionOpen Access Article published originally in Biology Letters, October 2009, 5(5) pp 678-681, http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/5/678en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1744-957X
dc.identifier.journalBiology Lettersen_GB


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