scholarly journals Personality assortative female mating preferences in a songbird

Behaviour ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 155 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ákos Pogány ◽  
Ernő Vincze ◽  
Zita Szurovecz ◽  
András Kosztolányi ◽  
Zoltán Barta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Assortative Mating ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Novel Objects ◽  
Female Mating Preferences ◽  
Animal Personalities ◽  
Random Pair

Abstract Consistent individual behavioural differences (‘animal personalities’) are documented across a variety of animal taxa. Sexual selection, especially assortative mating has been suggested as a possible mechanism contributing to the maintenance of different personality types within populations but little is known about non-random pair-formation with respect to personality traits in unconstrained choice tests. We here tested whether female mating preferences were non-random with respect to male and female neophobia in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), an important avian model of mate choice and animal personality research. Male and female neophobia was assessed by attaching novel objects to birds’ feeders. Females’ mating preferences were tested with randomly assigned, unfamiliar males in a four-way choice apparatus. Females associated most with males with neophobia scores similar to their own. These results provide evidence that mating preferences and personality traits can covary, supporting evolutionary scenarios of assortative mating contributing to the maintenance of personality traits.

scholarly journals The evolution of male and female mating preferences inDrosophilaspeciation*

Evolution ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 1759-1773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Yukilevich ◽  
Elizabeth K. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Female Mating Preferences

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.

Audience effect alters male but not female mating preferences

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Plath ◽  
Katja Kromuszczynski ◽  
Ralph Tiedemann
Keyword(s):  
Audience Effect ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Female Mating Preferences

Computer Animations as a Tool in the Study of Mating Preferences

Behaviour ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 135 (8) ◽  
pp. 1137-1159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Bakker ◽  
Reto Künzler
Keyword(s):  
Computer Animation ◽  
Preference Test ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Mating Preferences ◽  
Computer Animations ◽  
Female Mating ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
Female Mating Preferences ◽  
Male Signals ◽  
Multiple Male

AbstractThe study of multiple female mating preferences and multiple male signals requires correct and precise measurement of preferences. A review is given of existing preference test paradigms. Non-interactive preference tests using computer animations perfectly fulfil the demands for the study of multiple preferences for visual traits: exclusion of confounding variables, exclusion of variation within and between male pairs, great potential of experimental manipulation of single and combinations of visual traits including behaviour. We give a detailed description for the production of computer animation movies based on commercial software. Finally, we show how computer animations can be properly applied to the testing of mating preferences. In sticklebacks, female mating preferences that were tested in this way agreed with preferences that were measured with other test paradigms.

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