One size fits all? Determinants of sperm transfer in a highly dimorphic orb-web spider.

Abstract:

:The evolutionary significance of widespread hypo-allometric scaling of genital traits in combination with rapid interspecific genital trait divergence has been of key interest to evolutionary biologists for many years and remains poorly understood. Here, we provide a detailed assessment of quantitative genital trait variation in males and females of the sexually highly dimorphic and cannibalistic orb-weaving spider Argiope aurantia. We then test how this trait variation relates to sperm transfer success. In particular, we test specific predictions of the one-size-fits-all and lock-and-key hypotheses for the evolution of genital characters. We use video-taped staged matings in a controlled environment with subsequent morphological microdissections and sperm count analyses. We find little support for the prediction of the one-size-fits-all hypothesis for the evolution of hypo-allometric scaling of genital traits, namely that intermediate trait dimensions confer highest sperm transfer success. Likewise, our findings do not support the prediction of the lock-and-key hypothesis that a tight fit of male and female genital traits mediates highest sperm transfer success. We do, however, detect directional effects of a number of male and female genital characters on sperm transfer, suggesting that genital trait dimensions are commonly under selection in nature. Importantly, even though females are much larger than males, spermatheca size limits the number of sperm transferred, contradicting a previous hypothesis about the evolutionary consequences of genital size dimorphism in extremely size-dimorphic taxa. We also find strong positive effects of male body size and copulation duration on the probability of sperm transfer and the number of sperm transferred, with implications for the evolution of extreme sexual size dimorphism and sexual cannibalism in orb weavers.

journal_name

J Evol Biol

authors

Assis BA,Foellmer MW

doi

10.1111/jeb.12848

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1106-20

issue

6

eissn

1010-061X

issn

1420-9101

journal_volume

29

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Maternal allocation strategies and differential effects of yolk carotenoids on the phenotype and viability of yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) chicks in relation to sex and laying order.

    abstract::Egg quality may mediate maternal allocation strategies according to progeny sex. In vertebrates, carotenoids have important physiological roles during embryonic and post-natal life, but the consequences of variation in yolk carotenoids for offspring phenotype in oviparous species are largely unknown. In yellow-legged ...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01599.x

    authors: Romano M,Caprioli M,Ambrosini R,Rubolini D,Fasola M,Saino N

    更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00

  • Brain size predicts behavioural plasticity in guppies (Poecilia reticulata): An experiment.

    abstract::Understanding how animal personality (consistent between-individual behavioural differences) arises has become a central topic in behavioural sciences. This endeavour is complicated by the fact that not only the mean behaviour of individuals (behavioural type) but also the strength of their reaction to environmental c...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.13405

    authors: Herczeg G,Urszán TJ,Orf S,Nagy G,Kotrschal A,Kolm N

    更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00

  • Reproductive mode evolution in lizards revisited: updated analyses examining geographic, climatic and phylogenetic effects support the cold-climate hypothesis.

    abstract::Viviparity, the bearing of live young, has evolved well over 100 times among squamate reptiles. This reproductive strategy is hypothesized to allow maternal control of the foetus' thermal environment and thereby to increase the fitness of the parents and offspring. Two hypotheses have been posited to explain this phen...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12536

    authors: Watson CM,Makowsky R,Bagley JC

    更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00

  • Senescence in relation to latitude and migration in birds.

    abstract::Senescence is the age-related deterioration of the phenotype, explained by accumulation of mutations, antagonistic pleiotropy, free radicals or other mechanisms. I investigated patterns of actuarial senescence in a sample of 169 species of birds in relation to latitude and migration, by analysing longevity records adj...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01236.x

    authors: Møller AP

    更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00

  • Transgenerational effects of nutrition are different for sons and daughters.

    abstract::Food shortage is an important selective factor shaping animal life-history trajectories. Yet, despite its role, many aspects of the interaction between parental and offspring food environments remain unclear. In this study, we measured developmental plasticity in response to food availability over two generations and ...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12872

    authors: Zizzari ZV,van Straalen NM,Ellers J

    更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00

  • Marine-freshwater transitions are associated with the evolution of dietary diversification in terapontid grunters (Teleostei: Terapontidae).

    abstract::The ecological opportunities associated with transitions across the marine-freshwater interface are regarded as an important catalyst of diversification in a range of aquatic taxa. Here, we examined the role of these major habitat transitions and trophic diversification in a radiation of Australasian fishes using a ne...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02504.x

    authors: Davis AM,Unmack PJ,Pusey BJ,Johnson JB,Pearson RG

    更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00

  • Characterization and evolutionary analysis of tributyltin-binding protein and pufferfish saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin-binding protein genes in toxic and nontoxic pufferfishes.

    abstract::Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of toxin accumulation in pufferfishes has been long-standing problem in toxicology and evolutionary biology. Pufferfish saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin-binding protein (PSTBP) is involved in the transport and accumulation of tetrodotoxin and is one of the most intriguing proteins r...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12634

    authors: Hashiguchi Y,Lee JM,Shiraishi M,Komatsu S,Miki S,Shimasaki Y,Mochioka N,Kusakabe T,Oshima Y

    更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00

  • Fitness landscapes emerging from pharmacodynamic functions in the evolution of multidrug resistance.

    abstract::Adaptive evolution often involves beneficial mutations at more than one locus. In this case, the trajectory and rate of adaptation is determined by the underlying fitness landscape, that is, the fitness values and mutational connectivity of all genotypes under consideration. Drug resistance, especially resistance to m...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12355

    authors: Engelstädter J

    更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00

  • Evolution of egg dummies in Tanganyikan cichlid fishes: the roles of parental care and sexual selection.

    abstract::Sexual selection has been suggested to be an important driver of speciation in cichlid fishes of the Great Lakes of Africa, and the presence of male egg dummies is proposed to have played a key role. Here, we investigate how mouthbrooding and egg dummies have evolved in Tanganyikan cichlids, the lineage which seeded t...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12231

    authors: Amcoff M,Gonzalez-Voyer A,Kolm N

    更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00

  • The dissimilar costs of love and war: age-specific mortality as a function of the operational sex ratio.

    abstract::Lifespan and ageing are strongly affected by many environmental factors, but the effects of social environment on these life-history traits are not well understood. We examined effects of social interaction on age-specific mortality rate in the sexually dimorphic neriid fly Telostylinus angusticollis. We found that al...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02250.x

    authors: Adler MI,Bonduriansky R

    更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00

  • Omnivory in lacertid lizards: adaptive evolution or constraint?

    abstract::Feeding specializations such as herbivory are an often cited example of convergent and adaptive evolution. However, some groups such as lizards appear constrained in the evolution of morphological specializations associated with specialized diets. Here we examine whether the inclusion of plant matter into the diet of ...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00758.x

    authors: Herrel A,Vanhooydonck B,Van Damme R

    更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00

  • Adaptation and Natural Selection revisited.

    abstract::In Adaptation and Natural Selection, George C. Williams linked the distinction between group and individual adaptation with the distinction between group and individual selection. Williams' Principle, as we will call it, says that adaptation at a level requires selection at that level. This is a necessary but not a su...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02162.x

    authors: Sober E,Wilson DS

    更新日期:2011-02-01 00:00:00

  • Ecomorphological variation in male and female wall lizards and the macroevolution of sexual dimorphism in relation to habitat use.

    abstract::Understanding how phenotypic diversity evolves is a major interest of evolutionary biology. Habitat use is an important factor in the evolution of phenotypic diversity of many animal species. Interestingly, male and female phenotypes have been frequently shown to respond differently to environmental variation. At the ...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12540

    authors: Kaliontzopoulou A,Carretero MA,Adams DC

    更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00

  • Heat stress and age induced maternal effects on wing size and shape in parthenogenetic Drosophila mercatorum.

    abstract::Maternal effects on progeny wing size and shape in a homozygous parthenogenetic strain of Drosophila mercatorum were investigated. The impact of external maternal factors (heat stress) and the impact of internal maternal factors (different maternal and grand maternal age) were studied. The offspring developed under id...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00955.x

    authors: Andersen DH,Pertoldi C,Scali V,Loeschcke V

    更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00

  • Assessing reproductive isolation using a contact zone between parapatric lake-stream stickleback ecotypes.

    abstract::Ecological speciation occurs when populations evolve reproductive isolation as a result of divergent natural selection. This isolation can be influenced by many potential reproductive barriers, including selection against hybrids, selection against migrants and assortative mating. How and when these barriers act and i...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12978

    authors: Hanson D,Moore JS,Taylor EB,Barrett RD,Hendry AP

    更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00

  • The mismeasurement of sexual selection.

    abstract::Sexual selection can explain major micro- and macro-evolutionary patterns. Much of current theory predicts that the strength of sexual selection (i) is driven by the relative abundance of males and females prepared to mate (i.e. the operational sex ratio, OSR) and (ii) can be generally estimated by calculating intra-s...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01921.x

    authors: Klug H,Heuschele J,Jennions MD,Kokko H

    更新日期:2010-03-01 00:00:00

  • A test of fitness consequences of hybridization in sibling species of Lake Victoria cichlid fish.

    abstract::Several hundred species of haplochromine cichlid fish have evolved rapidly in Lake Victoria. Divergent sexual and ecological selection probably played an important role in this radiation, generating divergent mating preferences and preference-trait covariance. However, the segregation of hybrid inviability or infertil...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01495.x

    authors: Van Der Sluijs I,Van Dooren TJ,Seehausen O,Van Alphen JJ

    更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00

  • Response of parasitoid egg load to host dynamics and implications for egg load evolution.

    abstract::A theoretical debate about whether parasitoids should be time or egg limited now recognizes both as feasible, and interest has turned to determining the circumstances under which each might arise in the field, and their implications for parasitoid behaviour and evolution. Egg loads of parasitoids sampled from the fiel...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.13095

    authors: Phillips CB,Kean JM

    更新日期:2017-07-01 00:00:00

  • The achaete-scute complex in Diptera: patterns of noncoding sequence evolution.

    abstract::The achaete-scute complex (AS-C) has been a useful paradigm for the study of pattern formation and its evolution. achaete-scute genes have duplicated and evolved distinct expression patterns during the evolution of cyclorraphous Diptera. Are the expression patterns in different species driven by conserved regulatory e...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12687

    authors: Negre B,Simpson P

    更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00

  • Cryptic female choice via sperm dumping favours male copulatory courtship in a spider.

    abstract::Males of many animals perform 'copulatory courtship' during copulation, but the possible reproductive significance of this behaviour has seldom been investigated. In some animals, including the spider Physocyclus globosus (Pholcidae), the female discards sperm during or immediately following some copulations. In this ...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01900.x

    authors: Peretti AV,Eberhard WG

    更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00

  • Does multiple paternity influence offspring disease resistance?

    abstract::It has been suggested that polyandry allows females to increase offspring genetic diversity and reduce the prevalence and susceptibility of their offspring to infectious diseases. We tested this hypothesis in wild-derived house mice (Mus musculus) by experimentally infecting the offspring from 15 single- and 15 multip...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12854

    authors: Thonhauser KE,Raveh S,Thoß M,Penn DJ

    更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00

  • Concurrent coevolution of intra-organismal cheaters and resisters.

    abstract::The evolution of multicellularity is a major transition that is not yet fully understood. Specifically, we do not know whether there are any mechanisms by which multicellularity can be maintained without a single-cell bottleneck or other relatedness-enhancing mechanisms. Under low relatedness, cheaters can evolve that...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.12618

    authors: Levin SR,Brock DA,Queller DC,Strassmann JE

    更新日期:2015-04-01 00:00:00

  • Strain filtering and transmission of a mixed infection in a social insect.

    abstract::Mixed-genotype infections have attracted considerable attention as drivers of pathogen evolution. However, experimental approaches often overlook essential features of natural host-parasite interactions, such as host heterogeneity, or the effects of between-host selection during transmission. Here, following inoculati...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02172.x

    authors: Ulrich Y,Sadd BM,Schmid-Hempel P

    更新日期:2011-02-01 00:00:00

  • Inbreeding depression in an asexual population of Mimulus guttatus.

    abstract::The reproductive mechanism, that is whether an organism outcrosses, selfs or asexually reproduces, has a substantial impact on the amount and pattern of genetic variation. In this study, we estimate genetic variation and genetic load for a predominately asexual population of Mimulus guttatus, and then compare our resu...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01848.x

    authors: Marriage TN,Kelly JK

    更新日期:2009-11-01 00:00:00

  • Restricted gene flow between two social forms in the ant Formica truncorum.

    abstract::We studied genetic differentiation between two social forms (M-type: single queen, independent nest founding; P-type: multiple queens, dependent nest founding, building of colonial networks) of the ant Formica truncorum in a locality where the social types characterize two sympatric populations. The genetic results in...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00908.x

    authors: Gyllenstrand N,Seppä P,Pamilo P

    更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00

  • Co-evolution of cerebral and cerebellar expansion in cetaceans.

    abstract::Cetaceans possess brains that rank among the largest to have ever evolved, either in terms of absolute mass or relative to body size. Cetaceans have evolved these huge brains under relatively unique environmental conditions, making them a fascinating case study to investigate the constraints and selection pressures th...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/jeb.13539

    authors: Muller AS,Montgomery SH

    更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00

  • A microsatellite linkage map for Drosophila montana shows large variation in recombination rates, and a courtship song trait maps to an area of low recombination.

    abstract::Current advances in genetic analysis are opening up our knowledge of the genetics of species differences, but challenges remain, particularly for out-bred natural populations. We constructed a microsatellite-based linkage map for two out-bred lines of Drosophila montana derived from divergent populations by taking adv...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01916.x

    authors: Schäfer MA,Mazzi D,Klappert K,Kauranen H,Vieira J,Hoikkala A,Ritchie MG,Schlötterer C

    更新日期:2010-03-01 00:00:00

  • Plumage polymorphism and fitness in Swainson's hawks.

    abstract::We examine the maintenance of a plumage polymorphism, variation in plumages among the same age and sex class within a population, in a population of Swainson's Hawks. We take advantage of 32 years of data to examine two prevalent hypotheses used to explain the persistence of morphs: apostatic selection and heterozygou...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02356.x

    authors: Briggs CW,Collopy MW,Woodbridge B

    更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00

  • Evolutionary history shapes the association between developmental instability and population-level genetic variation in three-spined sticklebacks.

    abstract::Developmental instability (DI) is the sensitivity of a developing trait to random noise and can be measured by degrees of directionally random asymmetry [fluctuating asymmetry (FA)]. FA has been shown to increase with loss of genetic variation and inbreeding as measures of genetic stress, but associations vary among s...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01780.x

    authors: Van Dongen S,Lens L,Pape E,Volckaert FA,Raeymaekers JA

    更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00

  • Mechanisms of constraints: the contributions of selection and genetic variance to the maintenance of cotyledon number in wild radish.

    abstract::The evolutionary mechanisms underlying the maintenance of invariant traits are poorly understood, partly because the lack of variance makes these mechanisms difficult to study. Although the number of cotyledons that plant species produce is highly canalized, populations of plants frequently contain individuals with ab...

    journal_title:Journal of evolutionary biology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00821.x

    authors: Conner JK,Agrawal AA

    更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00