Immune defence, extra–pair paternity, and sexual selection in birds

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Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Møller Anders Pape 1997Immune defence, extra–pair paternity, and sexual selection in birdsProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.264561–566http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1997.0080SectionRestricted accessImmune defence, extra–pair paternity, and sexual selection in birds Anders Pape Møller Anders Pape Møller Laboratoire d' Ecologie, CNRS URA 258, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Bât. A, 7ème ètage, 7 quai St Bernard,Case 237, F–75252 Paris Cedex 5, France Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Anders Pape Møller Anders Pape Møller Laboratoire d' Ecologie, CNRS URA 258, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Bât. A, 7ème ètage, 7 quai St Bernard,Case 237, F–75252 Paris Cedex 5, France Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:22 April 1997https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1997.0080AbstractSecondary sexual characters have been suggested to reliably reflect the ability of individuals to resist debilitating parasites, and females may gain direct or indirect fitness benefits from preferring the most extravagantly ornamented males. Extra–pair paternity provides an estimate of an important component of sexual selection in birds. Species with a high frequency of extra–pair paternity have a variance in realized reproductive success that is greater than the variance in apparent reproductive success, and extra–pair copulations and hence extra–pair paternity by females are often directly associated with the expression of male secondary sexual characters. If sexually dichromatic species have experienced a long period of antagonistic coevolution with their parasites, such species should have evolved larger immune defence organs than sexually monochromatic species. Bird species with sexual dichromatism had larger spleens for their body size than monochromatic species in a comparative analysis. Furthermore, species with a high frequency of extra–pair paternity were sexually dichromatic and had large spleens for their body size. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that females of dichromatic bird species seek extra–pair copulations to obtain indirect fitness benefits in terms of superior resistance of their offspring to virulent parasites. Previous ArticleNext Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetailsCited by Møller A, Søraker J and Soler J (2020) Extra-pair paternity and antiparasitic defence, Avian Research, 10.1186/s40657-020-00226-5, 11:1, Online publication date: 1-Dec-2020. 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