--- _id: '1184' abstract: - lang: eng text: Across multicellular organisms, the costs of reproduction and self-maintenance result in a life history trade-off between fecundity and longevity. Queens of perennial social Hymenoptera are both highly fertile and long-lived, and thus, this fundamental trade-off is lacking. Whether social insect males similarly evade the fecundity/longevity trade-off remains largely unstudied. Wingless males of the ant genus Cardiocondyla stay in their natal colonies throughout their relatively long lives and mate with multiple female sexuals. Here, we show that Cardiocondyla obscurior males that were allowed to mate with large numbers of female sexuals had a shortened life span compared to males that mated at a low frequency or virgin males. Although frequent mating negatively affects longevity, males clearly benefit from a “live fast, die young strategy” by inseminating as many female sexuals as possible at a cost to their own survival. acknowledgement: 'German Science Foundation. Grant Number: SCHR 1135/2-1. We thank M. Adam for handling part of the setups and J. Zoellner for behavioral observations.' author: - first_name: Sina full_name: Metzler, Sina id: 48204546-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Metzler - first_name: Jürgen full_name: Heinze, Jürgen last_name: Heinze - first_name: Alexandra full_name: Schrempf, Alexandra last_name: Schrempf citation: ama: Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution. 2016;6(24):8903-8906. doi:10.1002/ece3.2474 apa: Metzler, S., Heinze, J., & Schrempf, A. (2016). Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2474 chicago: Metzler, Sina, Jürgen Heinze, and Alexandra Schrempf. “Mating and Longevity in Ant Males.” Ecology and Evolution. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2474. ieee: S. Metzler, J. Heinze, and A. Schrempf, “Mating and longevity in ant males,” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 24. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 8903–8906, 2016. ista: Metzler S, Heinze J, Schrempf A. 2016. Mating and longevity in ant males. Ecology and Evolution. 6(24), 8903–8906. mla: Metzler, Sina, et al. “Mating and Longevity in Ant Males.” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 24, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp. 8903–06, doi:10.1002/ece3.2474. short: S. Metzler, J. Heinze, A. Schrempf, Ecology and Evolution 6 (2016) 8903–8906. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:50:36Z date_published: 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:48:55Z day: '01' ddc: - '576' - '592' department: - _id: SyCr doi: 10.1002/ece3.2474 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 789026eb9e1be2a0da08376f29f569cf content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:14:12Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:37Z file_id: '5062' file_name: IST-2017-736-v1+1_Metzler_et_al-2016-Ecology_and_Evolution.pdf file_size: 328414 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:37Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 6' issue: '24' language: - iso: eng month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 8903 - 8906 publication: Ecology and Evolution publication_status: published publisher: Wiley-Blackwell publist_id: '6169' pubrep_id: '736' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Mating and longevity in ant males tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 6 year: '2016' ...