TY  - JOUR
ID  - discovery183612
N2  - Background: Internal reproductive organ size is an important determinant of male reproductive success. While the response of testis length to variation in the intensity of sperm competition is well documented across many taxa, few studies address the importance of testis size in determining other components of male reproductive success ( such as mating frequency) or the significance of size variation in accessory reproductive organs. Accessory gland length, but not testis length, is both phenotypically and genetically correlated with male mating frequency in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni. Here we directly manipulate male mating status to investigate the effect of copulation on the size of both the testes and the accessory glands of C. dalmanni.Results: Accessory gland length was positively correlated with male mating frequency. Copulation induced a significant decrease in accessory gland size. The size of the accessory glands then recovered slowly over the next 8 - 48 hours. Neither testis length nor testis area was altered by copulation.Conclusion: These results reveal that the time course of accessory gland recovery corresponds to field observations of mating behaviour and suggest that accessory gland size may limit male mating frequency in C. dalmanni.
SN  - 1471-2148
PB  - BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-5-37
JF  - BMC Evolutionary Biology
KW  - TESTIS SIZE
KW  -  SPERM COMPETITION
KW  -  BODY-SIZE
KW  -  ARTIFICIAL SELECTION
KW  -  DUNG FLY
KW  -  DROSOPHILA
KW  -  DIOPSIDAE
KW  -  DIPTERA
KW  -  GLAND
KW  -  FREQUENCY
A1  - Rogers, DW
A1  - Chapman, T
A1  - Fowler, K
A1  - Pomiankowski, A
TI  - Mating-induced reduction in accessory reproductive organ size in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni - art. no. 36
VL  - 5
AV  - public
Y1  - 2005/06/09/
N1  - © 2005 Rogers et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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