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_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
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date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:37Z
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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
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short: CC BY (4.0)
type: journal_article
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