Familiarity and female choice in the bank vole - do females prefer strangers?

• Autorzy: Kozakiewicz M. , Choluj A. , Kozakiewicz A. , Sokol M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A laboratory experiment was carried out in order to test the hypothesis that in a free-living population of bank volesMyodes glareolus Schreber, 1740, long distance movements and mating with females representing other breeding colonies may be a male strategy to increase their reproductive success. In an experimental cage system, the behaviour of female bank voles towards males that were either familiar to them or strangers was investigated, including whether or not females will accept stranger males as breeding partners. It was found that females did not display increased aggression towards stranger males; instead they tried to contact them and the level of female interaction did not differ significantly between the two categories of males. Based on an analysis of microsatellite markers in the genomic DNA of adults and their young, the proportion of offspring fathered by the stranger and familiar males was the same. In addition, a considerable proportion (40%) of double paternity litters was found among those obtained during the course of the study.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Theriologica
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: 54
• Numer: 2
• Opis fizyczny: p.157-164,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Kozakiewicz M.

• University of Warsaw, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland

autor

Choluj A.

autor

Kozakiewicz A.

autor

Sokol M.

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