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).