Why females would mate with multiple partners and have multiple fathers for clutches or
litters is a long-standing enigma. There is a broad dichotomy in hypotheses ranging from …

The female perspective on reproductive strategies remains one of the most active areas of
debate in biology. Even though a single mating is often sufficient to satisfy the fertilization …

Mating systems are a central component in the evolution of animal life histories and in
conservation genetics. The patterns of male reproductive skew and of paternal shares in …

Multiple paternity is extremely common in natural populations of almost all reptiles studied to
date, suggesting that pay-offs from polyandrous mating systems are important in these …

Variation in levels of multiple paternity (MP) among species, populations and individuals has
important ecological and evolutionary ramifications including maintenance of genetic …

Adult sea turtles have multiple mates, but the frequency of multiple paternity varies between
rookeries and among species. Multiple mating can influence the strength of sexual selection …

Female sea turtles are promiscuous, with clutches of eggs often sired by multiple males and
rates of multiple paternity varying greatly within and across species. We investigated levels …

Multiple paternity is widespread among reptiles in general and turtles specifically. However,
its frequency is highly variable even among closely related species. Paternity is an important …

Multiple paternity within the same clutch has been detected in all sea turtle species.
However, no study to date has addressed the likelihood of sperm storage across years in …

Species that have temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) often produce highly
skewed offspring sex ratios contrary to long‐standing theoretical predictions. This ecological …