Multiple mating and a low incidence of cuckoldry for nest-holding males in the two-spotted goby, Gobiusculus flavescens |
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| Authors: | Kenyon B Mobley Trond Amundsen Elisabet Forsgren Per A Svensson Adam G Jones |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA;(2) Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway;(3) Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NO-7485, Trondheim, Norway;(4) School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Background A major question in behavioural ecology concerns the relationship between genetic mating systems and the strength of sexual selection. In this study, we investigated the genetic mating system of the two-spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens), a useful fish model for the study of sexual selection whose genetic mating system remains uncharacterized. We developed four polymorphic microsatellite markers and used them to conduct parentage analyses on 21 nests collected during the breeding season to examine the rates of multiple mating by males and to test for evidence of alternative mating strategies. |
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