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Does mate guarding prevent rival mating in snow skinks? A test using AFLP

In English

Författare

  • M Olsson
  • Beata Ujvari
  • E Wapstra
  • Thomas Madsen
  • R Shine
  • Staffan Bensch

Summary, in English

We report on likely mixed paternity in a natural population of snow skinks (Niveoscincus mirolepidoms) from alpine Tasmania, Australia. This species is nonterritorial and males guard females after copulation, Suggesting that guarding behavior has evolved to prevent rival mating of still-receptive females. To what degree does this mate-guarding prevent rival copulations? We sampled gravid females at random in the wild and looked for within-clutch mixed paternity among their offspring using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). Incorpating all visualized fragments, offspring band-sharing based on maternal bands was 0.94 (+/- 0.05, SD), whereas for paternal fragments it was 0.54 (+/- 0.46, SD). We then tested paternal band-sharing scores for all young of pairs against the mean score of the maternally inherited fragments to assess whether paternal genetic variation was larger than for a known single parent, hence, suggesting multiple sires. To reduce the risk of unequal sampling of polymorphic maternal and paternal fragments, We based Our statistical tests on heterozygous bands only. Offspring band sharing based on maternal heterozygous fragments was on average 0.68 ( +/- 0.22, SD), versus 0.35 (+/- 0.33, SD) based on paternally inherited fragments. in six of eight clutches (75%), at least one pair of voting in a clutch had paternal scores outside of the confidence interval for a single parent (i.e., the mother). Thus, mixed paternity seems to be widespread in this Population, despite prolonged postcopulatory mate-guarding by males.

Publiceringsår

2005

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

389-394

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Herpetologica

Volym

61

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Herpetologists' League

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0018-0831