Data from: Interacting phenotypic plasticities: Do male and female responses to the sociosexual environment interact to determine fitness?

Socially induced plasticity in reproductive effort is a widely documented
phenomenon. However, few empirical studies have examined how male and
female plastic responses to the social environment might interact in
determining fitness outcomes. In field crickets, Teleogryllus oceanicus,
males respond to rival song by increasing expenditure on seminal fluid
proteins that enhance competitive fertilization success at the cost of
reduced embryo survival. It remains unknown whether plastic responses in
females could moderate the effects of male competitiveness on offspring
performance. Here we used a fully factorial design to explore the
interacting effects on fitness of male and female plasticity to the
sociosexual environment. We found that female crickets exposed to male
song increased the number of eggs produced during early life reproduction,
which came at a cost of reduced offspring size. There was evidence, albeit
weak, that interacting effects of male and female sociosexual environment
contributed to variation in the hatching success of eggs laid by females.
Lifetime offspring production was unaffected by the sociosexual
environments to which upstream male and female plastic responses were
made. Our data offer a rare test of the theoretical expectation