Animal personalities influence male mating behavior and reproductive fitness

The relationship between individual personality and sexual selection has the potential to provide insights into how variation in personality traits is maintained. However, whether and how individuals with different personality traits have different mating behaviors and the fitness consequences has remained largely unexplored. We tested the hypothesis that male individuals have different mating behavior depending on their personality traits, and that there are fitness effects of personality traits. To do so, we conducted trials to quantify personality traits and observed mating behavior under standardized conditions in the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum). We also collected the number of offspring produced by their female mates to assess the association between male personality and their reproductive fitness. We found that male beetles showed consistent inter-individual differences in walking distance, emergence time from shelter and death-feigning time, which likely corresponding ..., For details on the methods see the Material and Methods section in the article., , # Data from: Animal personalities influence male mating behavior and reproductive fitness

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qbzkh18t4](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qbzkh18t4)

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset represents the results of repeated measurements of four personality traits (walking distance, emergence from shelter, death-feigning and patch discovery), three mating behaviors (the latency to first mating, number of mating, and mean duration of each mating) and two reproductive fitness (number of offspring and fertilized females) in male red flour beetles (*Tribolium castaneum*).

### Files and variables

#### File: mating.xlsx

**Description:** mating behaviors, reproductive fitness and different personality and morphological traits

##### Variables

* ID: ID of a male beetle; block: time block; act (blup): walking distance calculated by the average BLUP; eme (blup): emergence time calculated by the average BLUP; death (blup): death-feigning time calcul...