Why do females mate multiply? A review of the genetic benefits

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P356DOI10.1017/S0006323199005423
P698PubMed publication ID10740892
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P50authorMichael D. JennionsQ47577576
P2093author name stringPetrie M
P433issue1
P304page(s)21-64
P577publication date2000-02-01
P13046publication type of scholarly workreview articleQ7318358
P1433published inBiological ReviewsQ2500948
P1476titleWhy do females mate multiply? A review of the genetic benefits
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Q51033932Mating portfolios: bet-hedging, sexual selection and female multiple mating
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Q64923971Mating system change reduces the strength of sexual selection in an American frontier population of the 19th century.
Q34361641Mating system variation drives rapid evolution of the female transcriptome in Drosophila pseudoobscura
Q101630489Mating system, multiple paternity and effective population size in the endemic flatback turtle (Natator depressus) in Australia
Q64118547Matriline effects on metamorphic traits in a natural system in the European common frog (Rana temporaria)
Q30054148Measuring mating competition correctly: available evidence supports operational sex ratio theory
Q34629265Methoprene application and diet protein supplementation to male melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae, modifies female remating behavior
Q37510216Microsatellite evidence for high frequency of multiple paternity in the marine gastropod Rapana venosa
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Q33697872Molecular evidence for high frequency of multiple paternity in a freshwater shrimp species Caridina ensifera
Q43821819Molecular evidence for multiple paternity in a population of the Viviparous Tule Perch Hysterocarpus traski
Q29392352Molecular evidence of post-copulatory inbreeding avoidance in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
Q47188054Multi-male mating, probability of conception, and litter size in the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster).
Q56505303Multimodal flight display of a neotropical songbird predicts social pairing but not extrapair mating success
Q34288985Multiple Mating and Family Structure of the Western Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma californicum pluviale: Impact on Disease Resistance
Q35959570Multiple Paternity in a Reintroduced Population of the Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) at the El Frío Biological Station, Venezuela
Q116336486Multiple Paternity in the Common Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
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Q35932864Multiple paternity and hybridization in two smooth-hound sharks.
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Q36492946Nonadditive indirect effects of group genetic diversity on larval viability in Drosophila melanogaster imply key role of maternal decision‐making
Q58376745Occurrence of extra-pair paternity is connected to social male's MHC-variability in the scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus
Q51319439Offspring fitness varies with parental extra-pair status in song sparrows,Melospiza melodia
Q36014139On the evolutionary consequences of increasing litter size with multiple paternity in wild boar (Sus scrofa scrofa).
Q52641730Opposites attract? Mate choice for parasite evasion and the evolutionary stability of sex.
Q51294127Optimal mate choice patterns in pelagic copepods
Q46787679Optimal numbers of matings: the conditional balance between benefits and costs of mating for females of a nuptial gift-giving spider
Q51824402Outbred embryos rescue inbred half-siblings in mixed-paternity broods of live-bearing females
Q33214141Paternal alleles enhance female reproductive success in tropical pythons.
Q46259518Paternity Analysis of Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) Reveals Complex Mating Patterns
Q46501055Paternity analysis reveals wide pollen dispersal and high multiple paternity in a small isolated population of the bird-pollinated Eucalyptus caesia (Myrtaceae).
Q34137303Paternity and dominance loss in male breeders: the cost of helpers in a cooperatively breeding mammal
Q46847502Paternity testing using microsatellite DNA markers in captive Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae).
Q33694363Phenotypic plasticity in female mate choice behavior is mediated by an interaction of direct and indirect genetic effects in Drosophila melanogaster.
Q46245247Plant-mediated female transcriptomic changes post-mating in a tephritid fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni
Q40830814Pollination by sexual deception promotes outcrossing and mate diversity in self-compatible clonal orchids.
Q46087809Polyandrous females acquire indirect benefits in a nuptial feeding species
Q40801522Polyandrous females avoid costs of inbreeding.
Q51509522Polyandrous females benefit by producing sons that achieve high reproductive success in a competitive environment
Q44794072Polyandrous females found fitter populations
Q51161713Polyandrous females produce sons that are successful at post-copulatory competition
Q41994488Polyandrous females provide sons with more competitive sperm: Support for the sexy-sperm hypothesis in the rattlebox moth (Utetheisa ornatrix).
Q34793696Polyandry Has No Detectable Mortality Cost in Female Mammals
Q93060340Polyandry and trade-off between fecundity and longevity in female Dichelops furcatus (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Q36622099Polyandry as a mediator of sexual selection before and after mating
Q24652895Polyandry enhances offspring survival in an infanticidal species
Q38211983Polyandry in nature: a global analysis.
Q51736283Polyandry in the wild: temporal changes in female mating frequency and sperm competition intensity in natural populations of the tettigoniid Requena verticalis
Q34068564Polyandry increases offspring viability and mother productivity but does not decrease mother survival in Drosophila pseudoobscura
Q39442687Polyandry increases reproductive performance but does not decrease survival in female Brontispa longissima
Q52594727Polyandry produces sexy sons at the cost of daughters in red flour beetles
Q42010740Polyandry-fecundity relationship in insects: methodological and conceptual problems
Q36622147Polyandry: the history of a revolution
Q34680892Polygyny and extra-pair paternity enhance the opportunity for sexual selection in blue tits
Q111347632Polygyny influences the fitness of Parthenium beetle, Zygogramma bicolorata Pallister
Q35572323Positive feedback and alternative stable states in inbreeding, cooperation, sex roles and other evolutionary processes
Q24683629Possible role of female discrimination against 'redundant' males in the evolution of colour pattern polymorphism in guppies
Q28601200Post-copulatory opportunities for sperm competition and cryptic female choice provide no offspring fitness benefits in externally fertilizing salmon
Q24678576Post-copulatory sexual selection and female fitness in Scathophaga stercoraria
Q52967397Post-mating clutch piracy in an amphibian
Q31149734Post-mating interactions and their effects on fitness of female and male Echinothrips americanus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a new insect pest in China
Q47577419Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild
Q51192971Predicting evolutionary responses to selection on polyandry in the wild: additive genetic covariances with female extra-pair reproduction
Q58868943Prevalence of multiple mating by female common dormice, Muscardinus avellanarius
Q51174896Promiscuity resolves constraints on social mate choice imposed by population viscosity
Q51381298Promiscuity, paternity and personality in the great tit.
Q34526115Promiscuous females protect their offspring
Q51420242Promiscuous mating produces offspring with higher lifetime fitness
Q56432246Psychological and Physiological Adaptations to Sperm Competition in Humans
Q35035184Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction.
Q51775092Quantitative measure of sexual selection with respect to the operational sex ratio: a comparison of selection indices
Q31159532Rapid range expansion is not restricted by inbreeding in a sexually cannibalistic spider
Q92101497Recent immigrants alter the quantitative genetic architecture of paternity in song sparrows
Q51275937Reconstructing paternal genotypes to infer patterns of sperm storage and sexual selection in the hawksbill turtle
Q56431247Reconstructing the invasion and the demographic history of the yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, in Europe
Q24644634Reed bunting females increase fitness through extra-pair mating with genetically dissimilar males
Q34095557Remating in Drosophila melanogaster: are indirect benefits condition dependent?
Q64074493Reproductive Strategy Inferred from Major Histocompatibility Complex-Based Inter-Individual, Sperm-Egg, and Mother-Fetus Recognitions in Giant Pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
Q37153056Reproductive investment when mate quality varies: differential allocation versus reproductive compensation
Q36939285Role of evolutionary and ecological factors in the reproductive success and the spatial genetic structure of the temperate gorgonian Paramuricea clavata
Q36472865Same school, different conduct: rates of multiple paternity vary within a mixed-species breeding school of semi-pelagic cichlid fish (Cyprichromis spp.).
Q35972342Seasonal effects on egg production and level of paternity in a natural population of a simultaneous hermaphrodite snail
Q51711720Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection: their impact on male fertility.
Q46747376Seminal fluid mediates ejaculate competition in social insects.
Q33583287Sequential male mate choice under sperm competition risk
Q50773251Sequential mate choice and sexual isolation in threespine stickleback species.
Q36519192Sequential ovulation and fertility of polyoestrus in American black bears (Ursus americanus).
Q33840643Serial monogamy as polygyny or polyandry? : marriage in the tanzanian pimbwe
Q50671231Sex Differences in Post-Coital Behaviors in Long- and Short-Term Mating: An Evolutionary Perspective
Q55724989Sex gap in aging and longevity: can sex chromosomes play a role?
Q52975441Sex-biased predation by polecats influences the mating system of frogs.
Q51495111Sex-specific differential survival of extra-pair and within-pair offspring in song sparrows, Melospiza melodia
Q89513756Sex-specific patterns of senescence in artificial insect populations varying in sex-ratio to manipulate reproductive effort
Q58202996Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection in the Goodeinae, a Clade of Viviparous Fish with Effective Female Mate Choice
Q58557670Sexual Selection and Life-History Decisions: Implications for Supportive Breeding and the Management of Captive Populations
Q51409156Sexual antagonism for testosterone maintains multiple mating behaviour
Q35642222Sexual antagonism in the pistil varies among populations of a hermaphroditic mixed-mating plant.
Q35248789Sexual cannibalism as a manifestation of sexual conflict
Q35164338Sexual conflict arising from extrapair matings in birds
Q57318880Sexual conflict in mammals: consequences for mating systems and life history
Q24676760Sexual conflict over mating and fertilization: an overview
Q33938588Sexual conflict, life span, and aging
Q52950893Sexual conflicts in spotted hyenas: male and female mating tactics and their reproductive outcome with respect to age, social status and tenure
Q34171423Sexual selection and sperm quantity: meta-analyses of strategic ejaculation.
Q55036817Sexual selection and the risk of extinction in birds.
Q46581047Sexual selection on skeletal shape in Carnivora
Q34258502Sexual selection: conflict, kindness and chicanery
Q35889182Sexually selected dichromatism in the hihi Notiomystis cincta: multiple colours for multiple receivers
Q36622129Sexually transmitted infections in polygamous mating systems
Q56341114She gets many and she chooses the best: polygynandry inSalamandrina perspicillata(Amphibia: Salamandridae)
Q57915312Signal Reliability, Sex-Specific Genotype-by-Environment Interactions in Cuticular Hydrocarbon Expression, and the Maintenance of Polyandry through Chemosensory Self-Referencing in Decorated Crickets,Gryllodes sigillatus
Q38917453Single and multiple mating reduces longevity of female dumpling squid (Euprymna tasmanica).
Q34992041Single-male paternity in coelacanths
Q57699131Sire attractiveness influences offspring performance in guppies
Q50491912Sire coloration influences offspring survival under predation risk in the moorfrog
Q61450935Size-dependent mating pattern in a nuptial gift-giving insect
Q37599086Social and coevolutionary feedbacks between mating and parental investment
Q36477835Social pairing of Seychelles warblers under reduced constraints: MHC, neutral heterozygosity, and age.
Q29541497Social structure influences extra-pair paternity in socially monogamous mammals
Q29031546Sociogenetic organisation of two desert ants
Q36089169Sources of (co)variation in alternative siring routes available to male great tits (Parus major).
Q57235654Spatial variation in food availability predicts extrapair paternity in the arctic fox
Q91708741Spawning behavior of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus): Spawning synchrony, vibrational communication, and mate guarding
Q46896309Specialization for aggression in sexually dimorphic skeletal morphology in grey wolves (Canis lupus).
Q30498926Speciation in birds: genes, geography, and sexual selection
Q51072329Sperm competition and the evolution of seminal fluid composition
Q52011470Sperm competition games: sperm selection by females
Q34570003Sperm competitive ability in Drosophila melanogaster associated with variation in male reproductive proteins
Q31126285Sperm length influences fertilization success during sperm competition in the snail Viviparus ater
Q50679994Sperm-induced modification of the oviductal gene expression profile after natural insemination in mice
Q50524491Strategic promiscuity helps avoid inbreeding at multiple levels in a cooperative breeder where both sexes are philopatric
Q51491889Strong male/male competition allows for nonchoosy females: high levels of polygynandry in a territorial frog with paternal care.
Q52640999Superior sperm competitors sire higher-quality young.
Q34068905Superiority of extra-pair offspring: maternal but not genetic effects as revealed by a mixed cross-fostering design.
Q39165510Tactic-specific benefits of polyandry in Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Q36701381Temperature can shape a cline in polyandry, but only genetic variation can sustain it over time.
Q34328795The Female Perspective of Mating in A. femoralis, a Territorial Frog with Paternal Care – A Spatial and Genetic Analysis
Q48341000The Morning after the Night Before : Affective Reactions to One-Night Stands among Mated and Unmated Women and Men.
Q38983774The Psychometric Evaluation of Human Life Histories.
Q56853380The Study of Sex Differences
Q58098461The alien slipper limpet Crepipatella dilatata (Lamarck, 1819) in northern Spain: A multidisciplinary approach to its taxonomic identification and invasive biology
Q55036048The breeding biology of lemon sharks at a tropical nursery lagoon.
Q40429938The combined effects of pre- and post-copulatory processes are masking sexual conflict over mating rate in Gerris buenoi
Q34022071The concept of superfetation: a critical review on a 'myth' in mammalian reproduction.
Q36622143The consequences of polyandry for population viability, extinction risk and conservation
Q47373043The context-dependent effect of multiple paternity on effective population size
Q37664182The contrasting role of male relatedness in different mechanisms of sexual selection in red junglefowl
Q46545196The copulatory plug delays ejaculation by rival males and affects sperm competition outcome in house mice
Q35796448The cost of promiscuity: sexual transmission of Nosema microsporidian parasites in polyandrous honey bees
Q33360253The costs and benefits of multiple mating in a mostly monandrous wasp.
Q29399389The dissimilar costs of love and war: age-specific mortality as a function of the operational sex ratio
Q27026124The dynamic relationship between polyandry and selfish genetic elements
Q35038251The dynamics of two- and three-way sexual conflicts over mating
Q35034499The effect of multiple paternity on genetic diversity of small populations during and after colonisation
Q38439089The evolution of mate choice: a dialogue between theory and experiment
Q36081207The evolution of optimal female mating rate changes the coevolutionary dynamics of female resistance and male persistence
Q52659276The evolution of polyandry: intrinsic sire effects contribute to embryo viability
Q52641724The evolution of polyandry: patterns of genotypic variation in female mating frequency, male fertilization success and a test of the sexy-sperm hypothesis
Q99233996The evolution of pueriparity maintains multiple paternity in a polymorphic viviparous salamander
Q40451409The evolution of repeated mating under sexual conflict.
Q77827999The evolution of risky behaviour in the presence of a sexually transmitted disease
Q34110256The expression of pre- and postcopulatory sexually selected traits reflects levels of dietary stress in guppies
Q33379288The genetic architecture of fitness in a seed beetle: assessing the potential for indirect genetic benefits of female choice
Q28235787The genetic basis of traits regulating sperm competition and polyandry: can selection favour the evolution of good- and sexy-sperm?
Q34992068The heritability of multiple male mating in a promiscuous mammal
Q36622138The incidence and selection of multiple mating in plants
Q51538790The influence of maternal effects on indirect benefits associated with polyandry.
Q38925962The molecular basis and reproductive function(s) of copulatory plugs
Q46977481The more the better - polyandry and genetic similarity are positively linked to reproductive success in a natural population of terrestrial salamanders (Salamandra salamandra).
Q51785721The quantitative genetic basis of polyandry in the parasitoid wasp, Nasonia vitripennis
Q34082577The relationship between sexual selection and sexual conflict
Q33333949The relative nature of fertilization success: implications for the study of post-copulatory sexual selection
Q36555274The repeatability of mating failure in a polyandrous bug
Q30611297The role of male harassment on female fitness for the dengue vector mosquito Aedes aegypti
Q47094815The timing of female genital mutilation and the role of contralateral palpal insertions in the spider Cyclosa argenteoalba.
Q35754203Tracing reinforcement through asymmetrical partner preference in the European common vole Microtus arvalis
Q88867727Transgenerational effects of maternal sexual interactions in seed beetles
Q33891439Turgid female toads give males the slip: a new mechanism of female mate choice in the Anura.
Q35995846Ultimate Drivers and Proximate Correlates of Polyandry in Predatory Mites
Q54432823Uncoupling the links between male mating tactics and female attractiveness
Q90170637Unique multiple paternity in the endangered big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) in an ex situ population in South China
Q31153915Using RNA sequencing to characterize female reproductive genes between Z and E Strains of European Corn Borer moth (Ostrinia nubilalis).
Q33685633Variability in multiple paternity rates for grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) and scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini).
Q58791248Variation and Repeatability of Female Choice in a Chorusing Katydid, Ephippiger ephippiger: an Experimental Exploration of the Precedence Effect
Q37105626Variation in parent-offspring kinship in socially monogamous systems with extra-pair reproduction and inbreeding.
Q46241672Variation in the benefits of multiple mating on female fertility in wild stalk-eyed flies
Q55933287Vespa velutina: a new invasive predator of honeybees in Europe
Q57655579Vibratory communication in the jumping spider Phidippus clarus: polyandry, male courtship signals, and mating success
Q30462180Weighing costs and benefits of mating in bushcrickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), with an emphasis on nuptial gifts, protandry and mate density.
Q46077350What determines sex roles in mate searching?
Q21561006When Less Is Best: Female Brown-Headed Cowbirds Prefer Less Intense Male Displays
Q34459256When does conservation genetics matter?
Q37316582When does female multiple mating evolve to adjust inbreeding? Effects of inbreeding depression, direct costs, mating constraints, and polyandry as a threshold trait.
Q51408037When mothers make sons sexy: maternal effects contribute to the increased sexual attractiveness of extra-pair offspring
Q36346157When not to copy: female fruit flies use sophisticated public information to avoid mated males
Q37308099Why do female mice mate with multiple males?
Q27686913Why do sperm carry RNA? Relatedness, conflict, and control
Q50974126Why inclusive fitness can make it adaptive to produce less fit extra-pair offspring
Q38929584Within-clutch variation in offspring sex determined by differences in sire body size: cryptic mate choice in the wild
Q52038225Women's sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle depend on primary partner developmental instability
Q59089830reply: Sexual conflict and speciation

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