Moderate heritability and low evolvability of sperm morphology in a species with high risk of sperm competition, the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis.
evolvability
heritability
phenotypic plasticity
quantitative genetics
sexual selection
sperm competition
sperm size
wild population
Journal
Journal of evolutionary biology
ISSN: 1420-9101
Titre abrégé: J Evol Biol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 8809954
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2019
03 2019
Historique:
received:
19
06
2018
revised:
02
11
2018
accepted:
14
11
2018
pubmed:
19
11
2018
medline:
6
2
2020
entrez:
19
11
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Spermatozoa represent the morphologically most diverse type of animal cells and show remarkable variation in size across and also within species. To understand the evolution of this diversity, it is important to reveal to what degree this variation is genetic or environmental in origin and whether this depends on species' life histories. Here we applied quantitative genetic methods to a pedigreed multigenerational data set of the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis, a passerine bird with high levels of extra-pair paternity, to partition genetic and environmental sources of phenotypic variation in sperm dimensions for the first time in a natural population. Narrow-sense heritability (h
Banques de données
Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.nn75v55']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
205-217Informations de copyright
© 2018 European Society For Evolutionary Biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology © 2018 European Society For Evolutionary Biology.