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Cloacal protuberances and extreme sperm production in Australian fairy-wrens

1996; Royal Society; Volume: 263; Issue: 1375 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1996.0199

1471-2954

Elaina M. Tuttle, Stephen Pruett‐Jones, Michael S. Webster,

Primate Behavior and Ecology

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Tuttle Elaina M. , Pruett-Jones Stephen and Webster Michael S. 1996Cloacal protuberances and extreme sperm production in Australian fairy-wrensProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.2631359–1364http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1996.0199SectionRestricted accessArticleCloacal protuberances and extreme sperm production in Australian fairy-wrens Elaina M. Tuttle Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Stephen Pruett-Jones Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Michael S. Webster Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Elaina M. Tuttle Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed , Stephen Pruett-Jones Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Michael S. Webster Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 October 1996https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1996.0199AbstractIn many passerine species males have enlarged cloacal protuberances during the breeding season. One hypothesis for the evolution of cloacal protuberances posits that they are a response to sperm competition and thus predicts that both within and between species the size of the protuberance correlates with the number of sperm stored. Here we provide the first intraspecific test of this hypothesis. In Australian fairy-wrens (Aves: Maluridae) females regularly mate outside of their social group resulting in intense sperm competition among males. Male fairy-wrens develop enlarged cloacal protuberances, and in a study of three species, splendid fairy-wren, white-winged fairy-wren, and variegated fairy-wren, we found significant intraspecific correlations between the size of a male's protuberance and the stored sperm reserves in two of the three species. Males of these species had extreme numbers of sperm in their cloacal protuberances, up to 8.3 billion for splendid fairy-wrens, which should be available for a single ejaculate and is the most ever reported in an avian species. Studies of both captive and wild males showed that individuals can produce as many as 2 billion sperm per day. These data support the sperm competition hypothesis for the evolution of cloacal protuberances and highlight extreme sperm production as one possible outcome of sperm competition.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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This Issue22 October 1996Volume 263Issue 1375 Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1996.0199Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:0962-8452Online ISSN:1471-2954History: Manuscript received24/06/1996Manuscript accepted04/07/1996Published online01/01/1997Published in print22/10/1996 License:Scanned images copyright © 2017, Royal Society Citations and impact Large datasets are available through Proceedings B's partnership with Dryad