title: Susceptibility of the male fitness phenotype to spontaneous mutation.
abstract: Adult reproductive success can account for a large fraction of male fitness, however, we know relatively little about the susceptibility of reproductive traits to mutation-accumulation (MA). Estimates of the mutational rate of decline for adult fitness and its components are controversial in Drosophila melanogaster, and post-copulatory performance has not been examined. We therefore separately measured the consequences of MA for total male reproductive success and its major pre-copulatory and post-copulatory components: mating success and sperm competitive success. We also measured juvenile viability, an important fitness component that has been well studied in MA experiments. MA had strongly deleterious effects on both male viability and adult fitness, but the latter declined at a much greater rate. Mutational pressure on total fitness is thus much greater than would be predicted by viability alone. We also noted a significant and positive correlation between all adult traits and viability in the MA lines, suggesting pleiotropy of mutational effect as required by 'good genes' models of sexual selection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. martin.mallet@queensu.ca
authors.forename: Martin A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mallet
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Kimber
authors.forename: Adam K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Chippindale
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D056084:Genetic Fitness; D049750:Genome, Insect; D006238:Haploidy; D008297:Male; D052586:Mating Preference, Animal; D009154:Mutation; D012098:Reproduction; D012641:Selection, Genetic
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