Female behaviour and the interaction of male and female genital traits mediate sperm transfer during mating.

Abstract:

:Natural selection and post-copulatory sexual selection, including sexual conflict, contribute to genital diversification. Fundamental first steps in understanding how these processes shape the evolution of specific genital traits are to determine their function experimentally and to understand the interactions between female and male genitalia during copulation. Our experimental manipulations of male and female genitalia in red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) reveal that copulation duration and copulatory plug deposition, as well as total and oviductal/vaginal sperm counts, are influenced by the interaction between male and female genital traits and female behaviour during copulation. By mating females with anesthetized cloacae to males with spine-ablated hemipenes using a fully factorial design, we identified significant female-male copulatory trait interactions and found that females prevent sperm from entering their oviducts by contracting their vaginal pouch. Furthermore, these muscular contractions limit copulatory plug size, whereas the basal spine of the male hemipene aids in sperm and plug transfer. Our results are consistent with a role of sexual conflict in mating interactions and highlight the evolutionary importance of female resistance to reproductive outcomes.

journal_name

J Evol Biol

authors

Friesen CR,Uhrig EJ,Mason RT,Brennan PL

doi

10.1111/jeb.12836

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-05-01 00:00:00

pages

952-64

issue

5

eissn

1010-061X

issn

1420-9101

journal_volume

29

pub_type

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