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Figure 4 in Preliminary assessment of mating duration and prolonged post-copulatory associations in Arrenurus water mites (Actinotrichida: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae)

Figure 4 Time spent on post-deposition behaviour (in %). Post-deposition behaviour is expressed as percentage of the total time spent on mating. The 25-75 percent quartiles are presented using a box. The medians are shown with a horizontal line inside the box. The minimal and maximal values are presented with the "whiskers". Petiolate species are indicated by light orange, and apetiolate ones by

Figure3 in Preliminary assessment of mating duration and prolonged post-copulatory associations in Arrenurus water mites (Actinotrichida: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae)

Figure3 Durations of different stages of mating (in min): A – pre-pairing stage; B – behaviours from initial pairing to the end of spermatophore deposition; C – post-deposition behaviour; D – total time spent on mating. The 25-75 percent quartiles are drawn using a box. The medians are shown with a horizontal line inside the box. The minimal and maximal values are visualized with horizontal lines ("whiskers"). Petiolate species are indicated by light orange, and apetiolate ones by dark green.

Figure 1 in Preliminary assessment of mating duration and prolonged post-copulatory associations in Arrenurus water mites (Actinotrichida: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae)

Figure 1 Scanning electron micrographs of males: A – apetiolate Arrenurus fontinalis Viets; B – petiolate Arrenurus bicuspidator. Abbrevia-

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Data from: Assessing the reproductive consequences of mate retention and pair bond duration in Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda), a short-lived, socially monogamous Neotropical bird

Description for "PairingData_Aspinicauda.xlsx" file. Data from: Assessing the reproductive consequences of mate retention and pair bond duration in Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda), a short-lived, socially monogamous Neotropical bird MS Reference Number: IBIS-2022-OA-113.R2 Article DOI: 10.1111/ibi.13183 Please address questions to: Esteban Botero D. Guest Scientist Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Dep. Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Eberhard-Gwinner-Str. 8 82319 Seewiesen, Germany Telephone: +49 8157 932453 http://www.orn.mpg.de/en e-mail: eboterod@gmail.com; ebotero@orn.mpg.de ===================================================================================== ===================================================================================== General information: The whole dataset contains breeding data collected from a population of the furnariid Thorn-tailed rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda) in north-central Chile (Fray Jorge National Park; 30º38’S, 71º40’W). These data were collected during 2009–2017 as part of a long-term study on the breeding biology of rayaditos. In this study, data were used to evaluate the consequences of mate replacement versus mate retention using 243 breeding attempts made by 159 different breeding pairs. This, in the end, allowed to test whether successive remating conferred reproductive benefits to reunited pairs. The data set is comprised by an Excel file (three spreadsheets) that are explained below. ************************************************************************************* Excel file "PairingData_Aspinicauda.xlsx" (created 11-01-2023) ********** Spreadsheet "1. AllPairs" ********** This spreadsheet contains information from all breeding attempts monitored during the study (n = 243). Each row correspond to a unique breeding attempt. The ring number is used as an ID for each individual. The matrix includes information regarding individual and pair identification, age, previous breeding status (whether an individual is a widow or a divorcee), current pairing status (whether is a newly formed pair or a reunited pair), number of seasons breeding together for each pair, confidence on pairing information for each pair (high: there was absolute confidence on the previous breeding status of both members of a breeding pair; low: when information on previous breeding status was missing for at least one of the members of a pair), and measures of reproductive success (laying day, clutch size, umber of fledglings produced). This dataset can be saved as a *.txt file so that it can be imported into R (R Core Team 2020). The matrix contains the following variables: VARIABLE        DESCRIPTION Year        Sampling year. Box        Nestbox code. FID        ID for the breeding female. FMAge        Age for each breeding female (yearling: 1; adult: 2). SocMID        ID for the breeding male (social father of the clutch). SocMaAge    Age for each breeding male. PairID        ID for the breeding pair. This is for indexing purposes. FPaSta        Previous breeding status of the female (Wid: widow; Div: divorcee; Reu: reunited). MPaSta        Previous breeding status of the male (Wid: widow; Div: divorcee; Reu: reunited). PairSta        Pairing status for the focal breeding pair (New: newly formed; Reunited: reunited). PairSea        No. of seasons breeding together for each pair. Certainty    Certainty on previous breeding status (High or Low; see explanation above). LayingD        Laying date (number of days in relation to date of first egg in the population). ClutchS        Clutch size. NoFle        Number of fledging produced. ********** Spreadsheet "2. WidowFBre" ********** This spreadsheet contains breeding information for females that were monitored in the years before and after mate loss. The matrix contains the following variables: VARIABLE        DESCRIPTION Year        Sampling year. Box        Nestbox code. FID        ID for the breeding female. LayingD        Laying date during year after mate loss. ClutchS        Clutch size during year after mate loss. NoFle        Number of fledging produced during year after mate loss. FPaSta        Previous breeding status of the female (Wid: widow; Div: divorcee; Reu: reunited). LayingD_x.1    Laying date during year before mate loss (year x-1). ClutchS_x.1    Clutch size during year before mate loss (year x-1). NoFle_x.1    Number of fledging produced during year before mate loss (year x-1). ********** Spreadsheet "3. WidowMBre" ********** This spreadsheet contains breeding information for males that were monitored in the years before and after mate loss. The matrix contains the following variables: VARIABLE        DESCRIPTION Year        Sampling year. Box        Nestbox code. SocMID        ID for the breeding male. LayingD        Laying date during year after mate loss. NoFle        Number of fledging produced during year after mate loss. MPaSta        Previous breeding status of the female (Wid: widow; Div: divorcee; Reu: reunited). LayingD_x.1    Laying date during year before mate loss (year x-1). NoFle_x.1    Number of fledging produced during year before mate loss (year x-1). ************************************************************************************* ===================================================================================== Methodological information (for more details, please see the related manuscript): A total of 101–157 nestboxes were installed in Fray Jorge since 2007, and are monitored annually during September–December. We gathered data on reproductive phenology and productivity during 2008–2017 for all nestbox occupants. Nestboxes were initially visited every 3–5 days to detect nest building. Once nestboxes were occupied, we increased the frequency of visits to record data on laying date, clutch size, and the number of hatchlings and fledglings produced (see more details in Botero-Delgadillo et al. 2017). We captured and marked breeding adults and nestlings with numbered aluminium rings when nestlings were 12–14 days old. Additionally, we used mist nets to capture adult birds breeding in natural cavities in our study site. A total of 248 adults (132 females, 116 males) and 730 nestlings were marked. For all nests that were monitored, we marked ~90% of all breeding adults every year. We used data from a total of 243 breeding attempts made by 159 breeding pairs captured during 2009–2017 to describe mating patterns in the study population, including: (i) the duration of social bonds for all breeding pairs formed during the study; (ii) the proportion of newly formed and remated pairs found during the entire study period and during each year; and (iii) the proportion of divorce versus mate loss causing pair dissolution. The consequences of mate retention and successive remating were evaluated by performing mixed-effects models in the lme4 package (Bates et al. 2015) in the free software R 4.0.2 (R Core Team 2020). To assess whether reproductive success was higher for remated pairs than for newly formed pairs, we tested for the effects of pairing status (newly formed vs. remated) on measures of breeding productivity. Linear models were fit for laying date, clutch size, and number of fledglings produced. To control for between-season variation in reproductive output, we calculated Z-scores for all numeric response variables using the mean and standard deviation for each year. All models included age class of both members of a breeding pair as covariates (yearling vs. adult), and female, male and pair ID as random intercepts. First, we performed analyses on the complete set of 243 breeding attempts, and subsequently repeated the analyses on a reduced subset of data that only contained pairs whose previous pairing status was known with certainty (n = 159). This allowed to evaluate potential bias in our results, given that the complete dataset included pairs misclassified as “newly formed”, because the previous pairing status of older individuals that we captured for the first time is unknown. We also investigated whether individuals experienced reduced reproductive success after mate replacement. To test this, we compared breeding productivity of individuals in the years before and after mate loss. We focused the analysis on widowed birds, as the frequency of divorced individuals was low in the study population. We used linear mixed-effects models that included data on laying date, clutch size, and number of fledglings produced as response variables. Each sex was tested separately, with clutch size being evaluated only for females. We included the breeding season as predictor (year x vs. x-1), and entered individual ID as a random intercept. Lastly, to evaluate whether successive remating influenced reproductive success, we used data on pairs that bred more than once together during the study (n = 132). Linear mixed-effects models were fitted to assess the effect of the number of seasons breeding together on laying date, clutch size, and number of fledglings produced. Between-season effects were controlled as described above, while the number of seasons breeding together (range: 1–6) was introduced as predictor. Given the skewed distribution of the number of seasons breeding together in this dataset (one = 36%; two = 36%; three = 17%; four = 8%; five = 2%; six = 1%), and the possibility that its effect on reproductive success might not be linear, a dummy variable indicating whether an observation belonged to the first breeding attempt (first attempt vs. after-first attempt) was also entered as predictor. Models included female and male age class as covariates, and pair ID as a random intercept. References: Botero-Delgadillo, E., Quirici, V., Poblete, Y., Cuevas, E., Kuhn, S., Girg, A., Teltscher, K., Poulin, E., Kempenaers, B., & Vásquez, R. A. (2017). Variation in fine-scale genetic structure and local dispersal patterns between peripheral populations of a South American passerine bird. Ecology and Evolution, 7(20), 8363–8378. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3342 Bates, D., Maechler, M., Bolker, B., & Walker, S. 2015. Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4. J. Stat. Soft. 67: 1–48. R Core Team. (2020). R: a language and environment for statistical computing, version 4.0.2. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, http://www.R.project.org ===================================================================================== =====================================================================================

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Data: Female-limited responses in remating rate and mating duration in the experimental evolution of a beetle Callosobruchus chinensis

Mating rate optima often differ between the sexes: males may increase their fitness by multiple mating, but for females, multiple mating confers little benefit and can often be costly (especially in taxa without nuptial gifts or mala parental care). Sexually antagonistic evolution is thus expected in traits related to mating rates under sexual selection. This prediction has been tested by multiple studies that applied the experimental evolution technique, which is a powerful tool to directly examine the evolutionary consequences of selection. Yet, the results so far only partly support the prediction. Here we provide another example of experimental evolution of sexual selection, by applying it for the first time to the mating behavior of a seed beetle Callsorobruchus chinensis. We found a lower remating rate in polygamy-line females than in monogamy-line (i.e. no sexual selection) females after 21 generations of selection. Polygamy-line females also showed a longer duration of first mating than monogamy-line females. We found no effect of male evolutionary lines on the remating rate or first mating duration. Though not consistent with the original prediction, the current and previous studies collectively suggest that the observed female-limited responses may be a norm, which is also consistent with the conceptual advances in the last two decades of the advantages and limitations of the experimental evolution technique.

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Traumatic mating increases anchorage of mating male and reduces female remating duration and fecundity in a scorpionfly species

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Data: Female-limited responses in remating rate and mating duration in the experimental evolution of a beetle Callosobruchus chinensis

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Data from: Sexual conflict over mating duration in Drosophila melanogaster

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Figure 2 in Preliminary assessment of mating duration and prolonged post-copulatory associations in Arrenurus water mites (Actinotrichida: Parasitengonina: Hydrachnidiae)

Figure 2 Scanning electron micrographs of Arrenurus spp. in copula: A, B – Arrenurus globatorin mating position (lateral view): female