Does good food make male mice sexy? The influence of diet on male sexually selected traits

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Autoren
  • Neelam Porwal
  • S Gangothri
  • Himrekha Agarwal
  • Anja Guenther
Autoren-URL
https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:001049675400001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
DOI
10.3389/fevo.2023.1207480
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ISSN
2296-701X
Zeitschrift
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Schlüsselwörter
  • sexual selection
  • phenotypic plasticity
  • trans-generational effects
  • parental effects
  • life-history
  • food quality
Artikelnummer
ARTN 1207480
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2023
Status
Published
Titel
Does good food make male mice sexy? The influence of diet on male sexually selected traits
Sub types
  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
11

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Abstract
<jats:p>Diet may have an important influence on life history and behavioral traits involved in sexual selection. Males of high condition should be better able to bear the costs of high trait expression and hence express more elaborate sexual signals. Here, we follow <jats:italic>Mus musculus domesticus</jats:italic> raised in semi-natural conditions across four generations of standard (SQ) versus high quality (HQ) food, containing a higher energy level and manufactured to boost body condition during reproduction. We investigate multivariate effects on life history, pre- and post-copulatory traits of males. In addition, we investigate the effects of a food switch in the third generation on trait expression. From the F3 generation on, HQ males were more dominant. This resulted in HQ males being preferred in mate choice even though no post-copulatory traits were affected, suggesting a condition-dependent allocation to different traits. Sons of food switched males showed reduced pre- but not post-copulatory trait expression, irrespective of the direction of the food switch, indicating a mismatch rather than adaptive plastic adjustments in the first generation. We conclude that males balance investment into different traits based on the diet to achieve similar fitness. Furthermore, we show that adaptive shifts in male reproductive strategies need several generations to emerge while first responses to changing environments reflect a constrained trait expression.</jats:p>
Autoren
  • Neelam Porwal
  • S Gangothri
  • Himrekha Agarwal
  • Anja Guenther
DOI
10.3389/fevo.2023.1207480
eISSN
2296-701X
Zeitschrift
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Online publication date
2023
Status
Published online
Herausgeber
Frontiers Media SA
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1207480
Datum der Datenerfassung
2023
Titel
Does good food make male mice sexy? The influence of diet on male sexually selected traits
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
11

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