scholarly journals Female mate preferences for male body size and shape promote sexual isolation in threespine sticklebacks

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 2183-2196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan L. Head ◽  
Genevieve M. Kozak ◽  
Janette W. Boughman
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Male Body Size ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Threespine Sticklebacks

scholarly journals Effects of male body size on mating behavior and female mate refusal in the white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Midori Fukaya ◽  
Tetsuya Yasuda ◽  
Toshiharu Akino ◽  
Hiroe Yasui ◽  
Sadao Wakamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Male Body Size ◽  
Longicorn Beetle

scholarly journals Body size differences do not arise from divergent mate preferences in a species pair of threespine stickleback

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan L Head ◽  
Emily A. Price ◽  
Janette W. Boughman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Gasterosteus Aculeatus ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Species Pair ◽  
Divergent Natural Selection ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Threespine Sticklebacks

Ecological speciation can be driven by divergent natural and/or sexual selection. The relative contribution of these processes to species divergence, however, is unknown. Here, we investigate how sexual selection in the form of male and female mate preferences contributes to divergence of body size. This trait is known be under divergent natural selection and also contributes to sexual isolation in species pairs of threespine sticklebacks ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ). We show that neither female nor male size preferences contribute to body size divergence in this species pair, suggesting that size-based sexual isolation arises primarily through natural selection.

Intra- and intersexual selection on male body size in the annual killifish Austrolebias charrua

2013 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Passos ◽  
Bettina Tassino ◽  
Marcelo Loureiro ◽  
Gil G. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Male Body Size ◽  
Annual Killifish

Sexual size dimorphism in the American rubyspot: male body size predicts male competition and mating success

2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 987-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Serrano-Meneses ◽  
A. Córdoba-Aguilar ◽  
V. Méndez ◽  
S.J. Layen ◽  
T. Székely
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Sexual Size Dimorphism ◽  
Male Competition ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Size Dimorphism ◽  
Male Body Size

scholarly journals A new species of Kurixalus from western Yunnan, China (Anura, Rhacophoridae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 770 ◽  
pp. 211-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guohua Yu ◽  
Hong Hui ◽  
Dingqi Rao ◽  
Junxing Yang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Outer Edge ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Male Body Size ◽  
Western Yunnan ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the genus Kurixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) is described from western Yunnan, China. Genetically the new species, Kurixalusyangi sp. n., is closer to Kurixalusnaso than to other known congeners. Morphologically the new species is distinguished from all other known congeners by a combination of the following characters: smaller ratios of head, snout, limbs, IND, and UEW to body size; male body size larger than 30 mm; curved canthus rostralis; weak nuptial pad; brown dorsal color; absence of large dark spots on surface of upper-middle abdomen; presence of vomerine teeth; gold brown iris; single internal vocal sac; serrated dermal fringes along outer edge of limbs; granular throat and chest; rudimentary web between fingers; and presence of supernumerary tubercles and outer metacarpal tubercle.

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