Variation in male reproductive success in a wild population of reindeer

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1163-1170

  Røed, Knut H ^a   Holand, Øystein ^a   Gjøstein, Hallvard ^a   Hansen, Helge ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b Box 5025 ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Microsatellites; Paternity; Rangifer tarandus; Reindeer; Reproduction; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

MALE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; UNGULATE;

RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 27944510594     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[1163:VIMRSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. ALTMANN, S. A. 1962. A field study of the sociobiology of the rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta. Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences 102:338-435.
2. ARNOLD, S. J., AND M. J. WADE. 1984. On the measurement of natural and sexual selection: applications. Evolution 38:720-734.
3. BERGERUD, A. T. 1973. Movement and rutting behavior of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) at Mount Albert, Quebec. Canadian Field-Naturalist 87:357-369.
4. BRÆND, M. 1965. Genetic studies on serum transferrins in reindeer. Hereditas 52:181-188.
5. CABALLERO, A. 1994. Developments in the prediction of effective population size. Heredity 73:657-679.
6. CEDERLUND, G., AND G. MARKGREN. 1987. The development of the Swedish moose population, 1970-83. Swedish Wildlife Research Supplement 1:55-62.
7. CLUTTON-BROCK, T. H., AND S. D. ALBON. 1980. Antler, body size, and breeding group size in the Cervidae. Nature 285:565-567.
8. _, F. E. GUINNESS, AND S. D. ALBON. 1982. Red deer. Behaviour and ecology of two sexes. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
9. _, K. E. ROSE, AND F. E. GUINNESS. 1997. Density-related changes in sexual selection in red deer. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 264:1509-1516.
10. COLTMAN, D. W., W. D. BOWEN, AND J. M. WRIGHT. 1998. Birth weight and neonatal survival of harbour seal pups are positively correlated with genetic variation measured by microsatellites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 265:803-809.
11. _, J. A. SMITH, D. R. BANCROFT, J. PILKINGTON, A. D. C. MACCOLL, T. H. CLUTTON-BROCK, AND J. M. PEMBERTON. 1999. Density-dependent variation in lifetime breeding success and natural and sexual selection in Soay rams. American Naturalist 154:730-746.
12. COURTOIS, R., L. BERNATCHEZ, J. P. OUELLET, AND L. BRETON. 2003. Significance of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) ecotypes from a molecular genetics viewpoint. Conservation Genetics 4:393-404.
13. EMLEN, S. T., AND L. W. ORING. 1977. Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems. Science 197:215-222.
14. ESPMARK, Y. 1964a. Rutting behaviour in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L.). Animal Behaviour 12:159-163.
15. _. 1964b. Studies in dominance-subordination relationship in a group of semi-domesticated reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Animal Behaviour 12:420-426.
16. FLAGSTAD, Ø., K. H. RØED, J. E. STACY, AND K. S. JAKOBSEN. 1999. Reliable noninvasive genotyping based on excremental PCR of nuclear DNA purified with a magnetic bead protocol. Molecular Ecology 8:879-883.
17. GEIST, V. 1966. The evolution of horn-like organs. Behaviour 27:175-214.
18. _. 1999. Deer of the world: their evolution, behaviour and ecology. San-Hill Press, London, United Kingdom.
19. HILL, W. G. 1972. Effective size of populations with overlapping generations. Theoretical Population Biology 3:278-289.
20. HIROTANI, A. 1994. Dominance rank, copulatory behaviour and estimated reproductive success in male reindeer. Animal Behaviour 48:929-936.
21. JARMAN, P. J. 1983. Mating system and sexual dimorphism in large terrestrial, mammalian herbivores. Biological Reviews 58:485-520.
22. KUSHNY, J. E. E., J. W. COFFIN, AND C. STROBECK, C. 1996. Genetic survey of caribou populations using microsatellite DNA. Rangifer Special Issue 9:351-355.
23. LANDE, R. 1981. Models of speciation by sexual selection of polygenic traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 78:3721-3725.
24. LANGVATN, R., AND A. LOISON. 1999. Consequences of harvesting on age structure, sex ratio and population dynamics of red deer Cervus elaphus in central Norway. Wildlife Biology 5:213-223.
25. LEADER-WILLIAMS, N. 1988. Reindeer on South Georgia: the ecology of an introduced population. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
26. LENT, P. C. 1965. Rutting behaviour in a barren-ground caribou population. Animal Behaviour 13:259-264.
27. LENVIK, D., O. GRANFJELL, AND J. TAMNES. 1988. Selection strategy in domestic reindeer. 5. Pregnancy in reindeer in Trøndelag County. Norsk landbruksforskning 2:151-161.
28. MARSHALL, T. C., J. SLATE, L. E. B. KRUUK, AND J. M. PEMBERTON. 1998. Statistical confidence for likelihood-based paternity inference in natural populations. Molecular Ecology 7:639-655.
29. MCLOUGHLIN, P. D., D. PAETKAU, M. DUDA, AND S. BOUTIN. 2004. Genetic diversity and relatedness of boreal caribou populations in western Canada. Biological Conservation 118:593-598.
30. MEAGHER, T. R. 1986. Analysis of paternity within a natural population of Chamaelirum luteum. 1. Identification of most-likely male parents. American Naturalist 128:199-215.
31. NUNNEY, L. 1993. The influence of mating system and overlapping generations on effective population size. Evolution 47:1329-1341.
32. PAUS, H. 2001. Historien om Rendalsreinen. Rendalen Renselskap, Rendalen, Norway. [In Norwegian.]
33. PEMBERTON, J. M., J. A. SMITH, T. N. COULSON, T. C. MARSHALL, J. SLATE, J. PATERSON, S. D. ALBON AND T. H. CLUTTON-BROCK. 1996. The maintenance of genetic polymorphism in small island populations: large mammals in the Hebrides. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 351:745-752.
34. _, D. W. COLTMAN, J. A. SMITH, AND J. G. PILKINGTON. 1999. Molecular analysis of a promiscuous, fluctuating mating system. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 68:289-301.
35. PRESTON, B. T., I. R. STEVENSON, J. M. PEMBERTON, D. W. COLTMAN, AND K. WILSON. 2003. Overt and covert competition in a promiscuous mammal: the importance of weaponry and testes size to male reproductive success. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 270:633-640.
36. REIMERS, E. 1972. Growth in domestic and wild reindeer in Norway. Journal of Wildlife Management 36:612-619.
37. _. 1983a. Reproduction in wild reindeer in Norway. Canadian Journal of Zoology 61:211-217.
38. _. 1983b. Growth rate and body size differences in Rangifer, a study of causes and effects. Rangifer 3:3-15.
39. _, AND Ø. NORDBY. 1968. Relationship between age and tooth cementum layers in Norwegian reindeer. Journal of Wildlife Management 32:957-961.
40. _, AND E. KOLLE. 1991. Effect of hunting on activity budget, growth, and body size of wild reindeer. Pages 363-366 in B. Bobek, K. Perzanowski, and W. Regelin, editors. Global trends in wildlife management. Swiat Press, Krakow-Warszawa, Poland.
41. _, J. E. COLMAN, L. DERVO, S. EFTERSTØL, J. KIND, AND A. MUIZ. 2000. Frykt og fluktavstander hos villrein. Villreinen 14:76-80. [In Norwegian.]
42. ROSE, K. E., T. H. CLUTTON-BROCK, AND F. E. GUINNESS. 1998. Cohort variation in male survival and lifetime breeding success in red deer. Animal Ecology 67:979-986.
43. RØED, K. H. 1998a. Influence of selection and management on the genetic structure of reindeer populations. Acta Theriologica 5 (Supplement):179-186.
44. _. 1998b. Microsatellite variation in Scandinavian Cervidae using primers derived from Bovidae. Hereditas 129:19-25.
45. _. 2005. Refugial origin and post-glacial re-colonization of holarctic reindeer and caribou. Rangifer 25:in press.
46. _, AND L. MIDTHJELL. 1998. Microsatellites in reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, and their use in other cervids. Molecular Ecology 7:1773-1776.
47. _, Ø. HOLAND, M. E. SMITH, H. GJØSTEIN, J. KUMPULA, AND M. NIEMINEN. 2002. Reproductive success in reindeer males in a herd with varying sex ratio. Molecular Ecology 11:1239-1243.
48. SKOGLAND, T. 1985. The effects of density-dependent resource limitations on the demography of wild reindeer. Animal Ecology 54:359-374.
49. _. 1989. Comparative social organization of wild reindeer in relation to food, mates and predator avoidance. Advances in Ethology 29(Supplement):1-74.
50. _, AND B. GRØNVAN. 1988. The effect of human disturbance on the activity of wild reindeer in different physical condition. Rangifer 8:11-19.
51. SOKAL, R. R., AND F. J. ROHLF. 1995. Biometry. Third edition. Freeman, San Francisco, California, USA.
52. STEVENSON, I. R., AND D. R. BANCROFT. 1995. Fluctuating trade-offs favour precocial maturity in male Soya sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 262:267-275.
53. THOMPSON, E. A. 1975. The estimation of pairwise relationships. Annals of Human Genetics London 39:173-188.
54. TRIVERS, R. L., AND D. E. WILLARD. 1973. Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring. Science 179:90-92.
55. WADE, M. J. 1980. Effective population size: the effects of sex, genotype, and density on the mean and variance of offspring numbers in the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Genetical Research 36:1-11.
56. WILSON, G. A., C. STROBECK, L. WU, AND J. W. COFFIN. 1997. Characterization of microsatellite loci in caribou, Rangifer tarandus, and their use in other artiodactyls. Molecular Ecology 6:697-699.
57. ZITTLAU, K., J. COFFIN, R. FARNELL, G. KUZYK, AND C. STROBECK. 2000. Genetic relationships of three Yukon caribou herds determined by DNA typing. Rangifer Special Issue 12:59-62.