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Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published online on March 25, 2009
Behavioral Ecology, doi:10.1093/beheco/arp030
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Mating behavior in the seed beetle Acanthoscelides obtectus selected for early and late reproduction

Darka Seslijaa, Jelica Lazarevica, Boban Jankovica and Nikola Tucica,b

a Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research "Sinisa Stankovic," Boulevard Despota Stefana 142, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia b Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 3, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Address correspondence to N. Tucic. E-mail: ntucic{at}ibiss.bg.ac.yu.


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Lines of Acanthoscelides obtectus that had been selected for either early- or late-life fitness components were compared with respect to early-life mating behavior of both females and males. Early-life mating frequencies and mating speed of both sexes, as well as female remating rates, were substantially higher in the late- than in the early-reproducing lines. These findings do not corroborate the hypothesis that selection for increased age at reproduction (and hence increased longevity) should result in reduced early-life mating efforts. We suggest that cryptic sexual selection within the late-age selection regime and relaxed sexual selection within the early-age selection regime may be the most important contributors to the pattern of mating behavior we see in the present study.

Key words: age-specific selection, mating frequency, mating speed, remating rate, sexual selection.

Received 3 June 2008; revised 19 November 2008; accepted 4 February 2009.


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