Table 2.

Control treatments demonstrate that ejaculates from early matings do not confound sperm precedence scores from later matings. (‘Unique’ males are those of the minority eye colour. Standard errors are given in parentheses.)

male mating order (control treatments)	n	proportion of ‘unique’ males progeny after each sperm competition bout
		first bout	second bout	third bout
+/+, bw, bw, bw	24	0.071 (0.011)	0.006 (0.004)	0.000 (0.000)
bw, +/+, bw, bw	14	0.896 (0.018)	0.096 (0.024)	0.007 (0.006)
bw, +/+, +/+, +/+	20	0.114 (0.024)	0.006 (0.003)	0.000 (0.000)
+/+, bw, +/+,+/+	19	0.904 (0.024)	0.081 (0.016)	0.010 (0.005)