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Title: | Age dependent sex allocation in the polygynous spotless starling |
Authors: | Veiga, José Pablo CSIC ; Polo, Vicente CSIC; Cordero, Pedro J. CSIC ORCID | Issue Date: | 2008 | Publisher: | Springer Nature | Citation: | Evolutionary Ecology 22: 167-176 (2008) | Abstract: | Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that avian females are able to manipulate the offspring sex ratio at birth. Although mating with an attractive male may induce females to skew the sex ratio toward males, the balance between the benefits of producing attractive sons and the costs of competing with other females for mates could vary with female age, a possibility that had not been previously explored. In this paper we increment experimentally the attractiveness of males of the polygynous spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) by adding green plants to their nests, a trait involved in courtship, and look for female age-differential effects on offspring primary sex ratio. Young and middle aged females produced more sons in experimental than in control nests, as expected, but old females showed the opposite tendency. To explain this novel result, we speculate that older females are limited to produce the most costly sex because the physiological drawbacks imposed by ageing reduce their ability to compete with younger ones for the non-shareable resources offered by males. We discuss that this evolutionary scenario may be widespread in avian polygynous systems. | Publisher version (URL): | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-007-9166-8 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/280976 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10682-007-9166-8 | ISSN: | 0269-7653 |
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