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dc.contributor.authorRodríguez-Muñoz, R
dc.contributor.authorHopwood, P
dc.contributor.authorFisher, D
dc.contributor.authorSkicko, I
dc.contributor.authorTucker, R
dc.contributor.authorWoodcock, K
dc.contributor.authorSlate, J
dc.contributor.authorWalling, C
dc.contributor.authorTregenza, T
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T14:19:36Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-23
dc.description.abstractThe age of potential mates has been proposed to be an important target for mate choice by females. Alternative hypotheses predict preferences in either direction. Females might be expected to prefer older males because such males have demonstrated their capacity to survive. Alternatively, they might prefer younger males that have not accumulated deleterious mutations. Preferences in both directions have been observed in laboratory experiments, suggesting that this is an issue that needs to be understood within its ecological context. We measured individual behaviour and reproductive success in a natural population of the field cricket Gryllus campestris over 10 years. We found that in this annual insect, a male's age relative to his peers was poorly correlated with his life span. This suggests that there is limited potential for selection to favour female choice for older males because a strategy of choosing older males would not significantly increase a female's likelihood of mating with a long-lived male. Older males were more successful at pairing up with females at a burrow, but once paired they were less likely to mate with them. By genotyping the next generation of adults we confirmed that observations of both pairing up with a female and matings were associated with successful offspring production. However, there was no relationship between how old a male was at mating and how many adult offspring he had. This lack of evidence for any fitness benefits to females from mate choice in relation to male age was consistent with the observation that the age of males had opposite effects on their success in pairing up with females compared to their success in mating with them.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 153, pp. 1 - 14en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.04.011
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/37717
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherElsevieren_GB
dc.rights© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/) en_GB
dc.subjectcricketen_GB
dc.subjectfemale mate choiceen_GB
dc.subjectgood malesen_GB
dc.subjectlife spanen_GB
dc.subjectlongevity senescenceen_GB
dc.subjectsperm ageingen_GB
dc.titleOlder males attract more females but get fewer matings in a wild field cricketen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2019-06-27T14:19:36Z
dc.identifier.issn0003-3472
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalAnimal Behaviouren_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-03-27
rioxxterms.funderNatural Environment Research Councilen_GB
rioxxterms.funderNatural Environment Research Councilen_GB
rioxxterms.funderNatural Environment Research Councilen_GB
rioxxterms.funderNatural Environment Research Councilen_GB
rioxxterms.funderNatural Environment Research Councilen_GB
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-03-27
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
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