Do ornaments, arrival date, and sperm size influence mating and paternity success in the collared flycatcher?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F17%3A73586674" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/17:73586674 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081766:_____/17:00468586 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10359247 RIV/00216224:14310/17:00096005
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-016-2242-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-016-2242-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2242-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00265-016-2242-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Do ornaments, arrival date, and sperm size influence mating and paternity success in the collared flycatcher?
Original language description
Males advertise their intrinsic parental and/or genetic qualities by the size of secondary sexual ornaments. Moreover, they compete with one another for the best territory and males who arrive first at the breeding ground usually have an advantage in this competition. Females may consider multiple male qualities simultaneously and prefer the one most important for their fitness in the current context. They can further improve their fitness by selecting the best care-giver as their social mate and engaging in an extra-pair copulation with a genetically superior male. In such cases, sperm competition arises in the female reproductive tract and its outcome may be affected by the sperm morphology of both the social and extra-pair male. Here, we tested these ideas in the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis), a species with context-dependent choice of social partners and frequent extra-pair paternity. We recorded male arrival to breeding sites, manipulated their forehead patches, and measured sperm size. In contrast to a previous study in a Swedish population, males with enlarged patches were nonsignificantly less successful late in the season while no such difference was found early in the season. Besides this tendential seasonal interaction, arrival date did not affect mating and paternity success or male fitness, and the same was true for sperm size. These results suggest different benefits of male ornamentation and female mate choice between populations and call for more replicated research within and between species.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10614 - Behavioral sciences biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F12%2F2472" target="_blank" >GAP506/12/2472: Post-copulatory sexual selection and the biology of sperm: within population processes and interspecific patterns in passerine birds</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
ISSN
0340-5443
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
71
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
"UNSP 3-1"-"UNSP 3-11"
UT code for WoS article
000392311800003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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