Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater)

Dietrich-Bischoff V, Schmoll T, Winkel W, Krackow S, Lubjuhn T (2006)
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 60(4): 563-571.

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Dietrich-Bischoff, Verena; Schmoll, TimUniBi; Winkel, Wolfgang; Krackow, Sven; Lubjuhn, Thomas
Abstract / Bemerkung
Females of many socially monogamous bird species commonly engage in extra-pair copulations. Assuming that extra-pair males are more attractive than the females' social partners and that attractiveness has a heritable component, sex allocation theory predicts facultative overproduction of sons among extra-pair offspring (EPO) as sons benefit more than daughters from inheriting their father's attractiveness traits. Here, we present a large-scale, three-year study on sex ratio variation in a passerine bird, the coal tit (Parus ater). Molecular sexing in combination with paternity analysis revealed no evidence for a male-bias in EPO sex ratios compared to their within-pair maternal half-siblings. Our main conclusion, therefore, is that facultative sex allocation to EPO is absent in the coal tit, in accordance with findings in several other species. Either there is no net selection for a deviation from random sex ratio variation (e.g. because extra-pair mating may serve goals different from striving for 'attractiveness genes') or evolutionary constraints preclude the evolution of precise maternal sex ratio adjustment. It is interesting to note that, however, we found broods without EPO as well as broods without mortality to be relatively female-biased compared to broods with EPO and mortality, respectively. We were unable to identify any environmental or parental variable to co-vary with brood sex ratios. There was no significant repeatability of sex ratios in consecutive broods of individual females that would hint at some idiosyncratic maternal sex ratio adjustment. Further research is needed to resolve the biological significance of the correlation between brood sex ratios and extra-pair paternity and mortality incidence, respectively.
Stichworte
brood sex; sex allocation; extra-pair paternity; coal tit; Parus ater; molecular sexing; ratio; offspring mortality
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Zeitschriftentitel
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
Band
60
Ausgabe
4
Seite(n)
563-571
ISSN
0340-5443
eISSN
1432-0762
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/1928410

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Dietrich-Bischoff V, Schmoll T, Winkel W, Krackow S, Lubjuhn T. Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY. 2006;60(4):563-571.
Dietrich-Bischoff, V., Schmoll, T., Winkel, W., Krackow, S., & Lubjuhn, T. (2006). Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 60(4), 563-571. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-006-0201-5
Dietrich-Bischoff, Verena, Schmoll, Tim, Winkel, Wolfgang, Krackow, Sven, and Lubjuhn, Thomas. 2006. “Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater)”. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 60 (4): 563-571.
Dietrich-Bischoff, V., Schmoll, T., Winkel, W., Krackow, S., and Lubjuhn, T. (2006). Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 60, 563-571.
Dietrich-Bischoff, V., et al., 2006. Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 60(4), p 563-571.
V. Dietrich-Bischoff, et al., “Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater)”, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, vol. 60, 2006, pp. 563-571.
Dietrich-Bischoff, V., Schmoll, T., Winkel, W., Krackow, S., Lubjuhn, T.: Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater). BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY. 60, 563-571 (2006).
Dietrich-Bischoff, Verena, Schmoll, Tim, Winkel, Wolfgang, Krackow, Sven, and Lubjuhn, Thomas. “Extra-pair paternity, offspring mortality and offspring sex ratio in the socially monogamous coal tit (Parus ater)”. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 60.4 (2006): 563-571.
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