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Title: Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction
Author(s): Reid, Jane M
Arcese, Peter
Keller, Lukas F
Germain, Ryan
Duthie, A Bradley
Losdat, Sylvain
Wolak, Matthew
Nietlisbach, Pirmin
Contact Email: alexander.duthie@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Inbreeding depression
kinship
mate choice
paternity
polyandry
relatedness
Issue Date: Jan-2015
Date Deposited: 8-Nov-2016
Citation: Reid JM, Arcese P, Keller LF, Germain R, Duthie AB, Losdat S, Wolak M & Nietlisbach P (2015) Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction. Evolution, 69 (1), pp. 59-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12557
Abstract: Extra-pair reproduction is widely hypothesized to allow females to avoid inbreeding with related socially paired males. Conse- quently, numerous field studies have tested the key predictions that extra-pair offspring are less inbred than females’ alternative within-pair offspring, and that the probability of extra-pair reproduction increases with a female’s relatedness to her socially paired male. However, such studies rarely measure inbreeding or relatedness sufficiently precisely to detect subtle effects, or consider biases stemming from failure to observe inbred offspring that die during early development. Analyses of multigenerational song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) pedigree data showed that most females had opportunity to increase or decrease the coefficient of inbreeding of their offspring through extra-pair reproduction with neighboring males. In practice, observed extra-pair offspring had lower inbreeding coefficients than females’ within-pair offspring on average, while the probability of extra-pair reproduc- tion increased substantially with the coefficient of kinship between a female and her socially paired male. However, simulations showed that such effects could simply reflect bias stemming from inbreeding depression in early offspring survival. The null hy- pothesis that extra-pair reproduction is random with respect to kinship therefore cannot be definitively rejected in song sparrows, and existing general evidence that females avoid inbreeding through extra-pair reproduction requires reevaluation given such biases.
DOI Link: 10.1111/evo.12557
Rights: © 2014 The Author(s). Evolution published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Society for the Study of Evolution. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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