SEQUENTIAL FEMALE ASSESSMENT DRIVES COMPLEX SEXUAL SELECTION ON BOWER SHAPE IN A CICHLID FISH

Evolution ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle A. Young ◽  
Martin J. Genner ◽  
Marcel P. Haesler ◽  
Domino A. Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Cichlid Fish

Sexual selection, parasites and bower height skew in a bower-building cichlid fish

1998 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN I TAYLOR ◽  
GEORGE F TURNER ◽  
ROSANNA L ROBINSON ◽  
JAY R STAUFFER JR
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Cichlid Fish

scholarly journals Colour pattern predicts outcome of female contest competition in a sexually monomorphic fish

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 20180480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Ziegelbecker ◽  
Florian Richter ◽  
Kristina M. Sefc
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Mating Success ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Contest Competition ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Female Territoriality ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Male Contests

Selection arising from social competition over non-mating resources, i.e. resources that do not directly and immediately affect mating success, offers a powerful alternative to sexual selection to explain the evolution of conspicuous ornaments, particularly in females. Here, we address the hypothesis that competition associated with the territoriality exhibited by both males and females in the cichlid fish Tropheus selects for the display of a conspicuous colour pattern in both sexes. The investigated pattern consists of a vertical carotenoid-coloured bar on a black body. Bar width affected the probability of winning in size-matched female–female, but not male–male, contests for territory possession. Our results support the idea that the emergence of female territoriality contributed to the evolution of sexual monomorphism from a dimorphic ancestor, in that females acquired the same conspicuous coloration as males to communicate in contest competition.

scholarly journals Parasite-mediated sexual selection and species divergence in Lake Victoria cichlid fish

2008 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTINE E. MAAN ◽  
ANNE M. C. VAN ROOIJEN ◽  
JACQUES J. M. VAN ALPHEN ◽  
OLE SEEHAUSEN
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Species Divergence

scholarly journals Sexual selection promotes colonial breeding in shell-brooding cichlid fish

2016 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 153-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Schütz ◽  
Sabine Wirtz Ocana ◽  
Martine E. Maan ◽  
Michael Taborsky
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Colonial Breeding

scholarly journals Eggspot Number and Sexual Selection in the Cichlid Fish Astatotilapia burtoni

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. e43695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederico Henning ◽  
Axel Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Astatotilapia Burtoni

scholarly journals Differences in male coloration are predicted by divergent sexual selection between populations of a cichlid fish

2016 ◽  
Vol 283 (1830) ◽  
pp. 20160172 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. M. Selz ◽  
R. Thommen ◽  
M. E. R. Pierotti ◽  
J. M. Anaya-Rojas ◽  
O. Seehausen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Cichlid Fish ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Female Mating Preferences ◽  
Male Coloration

Female mating preferences can influence both intraspecific sexual selection and interspecific reproductive isolation, and have therefore been proposed to play a central role in speciation. Here, we investigate experimentally in the African cichlid fish Pundamilia nyererei if differences in male coloration between three para-allopatric populations (i.e. island populations with gene flow) of P. nyererei are predicted by differences in sexual selection by female mate choice between populations . Second, we investigate if female mating preferences are based on the same components of male coloration and go in the same direction when females choose among males of their own population, their own and other conspecific populations and a closely related para-allopatric sister-species, P. igneopinnis . Mate-choice experiments revealed that females of the three populations mated species-assortatively, that populations varied in their extent of population-assortative mating and that females chose among males of their own population based on different male colours. Females of different populations exerted directional intrapopulation sexual selection on different male colours, and these differences corresponded in two of the populations to the observed differences in male coloration between the populations. Our results suggest that differences in male coloration between populations of P. nyererei can be explained by divergent sexual selection and that population-assortative mating may directly result from intrapopulation sexual selection.

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