RESULTS
Around 52% of the standard virgin females simultaneously presented to a
female-exposed and a control male mated with the female-exposed male
(143 out of 273 realized matings), with no evidence that exposure to
female cues significantly affected mating success (i.e. deviation from
the expected 50%; V = 19800, P = 0.398). We did not observe
a significant difference in mating latency between female-exposed and
control males (K-W χ2 < 0.001,P = 0.996; Fig. 1a). We did find that exposure to female-cues
significantly increased mating duration (K-Wχ2 = 4.523, P = 0.033; Fig. 1b), however
the Benjamini-Hochberg (1995) procedure for multiple testing correction
indicated that this result may represents a case a false discovery,
given a significance threshold set at α=0.05. Average remating latency
did not differ significantly between treatment females and control
females (K-W χ2 = 0.719, P = 0.397; Fig.
1c). We found no significant effect of mating with either a
female-exposed or a control male on female early-life reproductive
success (χ21 = 0.155, P =
0.694; Fig. 2), and this was consistent across days
(χ21 = 7.290, P = 0.295;
Fig. 2). However, we found a significant effect of day
(χ21 = 164.359, P< 0.001; Fig. 2). Similarly, we found no difference in average
lifetime reproductive success between treatment females and control
females (F 1,116= 0.461, P = 0.498; Fig.
3a). We found no significant difference in sperm competitiveness (sperm
offense, P2 ) between female-exposed and control males
(χ2 = 0.015, P = 0.902; Fig. 3b).