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Female polyandry dilutes inbreeding in a solitary fast‑living hibernator
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| Author: | Титов Сергей Витальевич | |
| Annotation: | Inbreeding depression is commonly considered an evolutionary influence on pre-copulatory mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance. Inbreeding may be minimized by: (1) delayed maturation and reproduction, (2) sex-biased dispersal, (3) behavioural avoidance of mating with relatives, and/or (4) mating by females with multiple males (polyandry). Time constraints on reproduction and limited opportunities for outbred matings may limit mate choice, forcing females to mate with relatives and favouring multiple paternity to reduce the costs of inbred matings. Using parentage, relatedness, and spatial genetic analyses, we studied genetic mating system, dispersal and inbreeding patterns in a wild partially isolated colony of the yellow ground squirrels (Spermophilus fulvus), fast-living hibernators. Females were phylopatric, while males dispersed within the colony. Nevertheless, male-biased dispersal could not completely separate closely related males and females, and the potential risk of inbreeding was high, in particular due to early maturation of males — some of them matured before dispersal. Females did not mate assortatively with respect to relatedness of males, mating both with close kin and non-kin, and 38% of sire-mother pairs were closely related (coefficient of relatedness > 0.125). Multiple paternity was common (56% of all litters), and multiply sired litters combined offspring from inbred and outbred matings. Parents of singly sired litters were mostly unrelated. The overall level of inbreeding was low. We conclude that, under strong time constraints on reproduction and mate choice, females do not mate selectively with unrelated males. However, multiple paternity dilutes inbred matings effectively enough to maintain the overall low level of inbreeding. | |
| Type: | Article | |
| Kind: | Electronic copy | |
| Parts: | 1 | |
| The year of publishing: | 2021 | |
| Publishing house: | Springer | |
| The target audience: | Researcher | |
| Special purpose: | Scientific | |
| Copyright holder: | Титов С.В. | |
| ISSN: | 1976-2020 | |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03086-1 | |
| SJR: | 2,98 | |
| Bibliographic reference: | Batova Olga N., Vasilieva Nina A., Titov Sergey V., Savinetskaya Ludmila E., Tchabovsky Andrey V., 2021. Female polyandry dilutes inbreeding in a solitary fast‑living hibernator // Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2021) 75: 145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03086-1 | |
| Url: | https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/summary/f1b15e7e-79d7-490f-971a-02bb74a17617-12a78f29/relevance/1 | |
| Language: | English | |
| Post date: | 12.11.2021 |