Sexual Selection and Species Recognition Marks in Birds A. B. Kistyakovskiy

The Auk ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-358
Author(s):  
D. G. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Species Recognition

The species recognition hypothesis explains exaggerated structures in non-avialan dinosaurs better than sexual selection does

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Padian ◽  
John R. Horner
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Species Recognition ◽  
Better Than

Sexual selection and species recognition in the pygmy swordtail, Xiphophorus pygmaeus : conflicting preferences

2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Morris ◽  
Shala Hankison
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Species Recognition

scholarly journals Sexual selection drives the evolution of wing interference patterns

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
MF Hawkes ◽  
E Duffy ◽  
R Joag ◽  
A Skeats ◽  
J Radwan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Colour Vision ◽  
Species Recognition ◽  
Sexual Attractiveness ◽  
Courtship Display ◽  
Structural Coloration ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Selection For ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe seemingly transparent wings of many insects have recently been found to display dramatic structural coloration. These structural colours (wing interference patterns: WIPs) may be involved in species recognition and mate choice, yet little is known about the evolutionary processes that shape them. Additionally, existing research has been restricted by analysing WIPs without due consideration of how they are actually perceived by the viewers’ colour vision. Here, we use multispectral digital imaging and a model ofDrosophilavision to compare WIPs of male and femaleDrosophila simulansfrom replicate populations forced to evolve with or without sexual selection for 68 generations. We show for the first time that WIPs modelled inDrosophilavision evolve in response to sexual selection, and confirm that WIPs correlate with male sexual attractiveness. These findings add a new element to the otherwise well describedDrosophilacourtship display and confirm that wing colours evolve through sexual selection.

scholarly journals Sexual selection drives the evolution of male wing interference patterns

2019 ◽  
Vol 286 (1903) ◽  
pp. 20182850 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. Hawkes ◽  
E. Duffy ◽  
R. Joag ◽  
A. Skeats ◽  
J. Radwan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Colour Vision ◽  
Species Recognition ◽  
Sexual Attractiveness ◽  
Courtship Display ◽  
Structural Coloration ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Wing ◽  
Selection For

The seemingly transparent wings of many insects have recently been found to display unexpected structural coloration. These structural colours (wing interference patterns: WIPs) may be involved in species recognition and mate choice, yet little is known about the evolutionary processes that shape them. Furthermore, to date investigations of WIPs have not fully considered how they are actually perceived by the viewers' colour vision. Here, we use multispectral digital imaging and a model of Drosophila vision to compare WIPs of male and female Drosophila simulans from replicate populations forced to evolve with or without sexual selection for 68 generations. We show that WIPs modelled in Drosophila vision evolve in response to sexual selection and provide evidence that WIPs correlate with male sexual attractiveness. These findings add a new element to the otherwise well-described Drosophila courtship display and confirm that wing colours evolve through sexual selection.

scholarly journals The evolution of female sex pheromones

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ally R. Harari ◽  
Hadass Steinitz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Sex Pheromones ◽  
Species Recognition ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Social Selection ◽  
Breeding Sites ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Breeding Resources

Abstract The role of female sex pheromones in natural selection, particularly as a means for species recognition to avoid the generation of hybrid offspring with low fitness, has been widely explored and is generally accepted by scholars. However, the significance of sex pheromones in shaping mate choice (sexual selection) and in competition over breeding resources (social selection) has been largely ignored. The effect of sexual selection on sex pheromones as a sexually dimorphic signaling trait has been discounted because the amount of pheromone released by females is typically minute, while the role of sex pheromones in competition over breeding resources (other than mates) has not yet been considered. As a result of natural selection, variation in sex pheromones among females is expected to be low, and males are not expected to choose their mates among phero-mone-releasing conspecific females. Sexual selection, on the other hand, should drive the increase in pheromone variance among females, and males are expected to choose females based on this variation. Moreover, social selection resulting from more general social interactions, for example competition among females for breeding sites and food, should also promote variance among female sex pheromones. Here, we review the current evidence for each of the three selection processes acting on sex pheromones of female moths as an advertising trait. We suggest that the three selection types are not mutually exclusive but rather act together to promote different fitness components in diverse ecological situations.

scholarly journals SPECIES RECOGNITION AND SEXUAL SELECTION AS A UNITARY PROBLEM IN ANIMAL COMMUNICATION

Evolution ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 647-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Ryan ◽  
A. Stanley Rand
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Species Recognition

FEMALE RESPONSES TO MALE COOS IN THE COLLARED DOVE STREPTOPELIA DECAOCTO

Behaviour ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 139 (10) ◽  
pp. 1287-1302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Secondi ◽  
Carel Ten Cate ◽  
Merijn De Bakker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Sexual Function ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Species Recognition ◽  
Female Preference ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Preference Learning ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Female Responses ◽  
Low Activity

AbstractBirdsong is one of the main models in sexual selection studies. Most investigations focused on oscines in which male song and female preference learning occur. Yet, some non-oscines are well suited for such studies as well. In Columbidae song learning does not occur. However, like in oscines, song is involved in inter- and intra-sexual interactions. Surprisingly, experimental evidence of female song-based preferences are still largely lacking in this group. We conducted playback tests on wild-caught Streptopelia decaocto females. We tested for the sexual function of song by playing decaocto songs versus songs of an unrelated species. We then investigated female responses to trill. Although they do not produce this trait, males react more strongly to artificially trilled decaocto songs, i.e. to conspecific songs in which a trill from a S. roseogrisea song has been inserted, than to normal decaocto songs. We also tested female responses to S. roseogrisea songs. Females flew more often and with a shorter latency during decaocto songs than during wren songs, suggesting that species recognition occurred, but we found no evidence of preference for trilled decaocto songs. The low activity observed during the experiment might have obscured actual preferences. Nevertheless, females consistently reacted more to normal decaocto songs than to trilled decaocto or roseogrisea songs. This contrasts with the strong responses for trilled decaocto songs and the virtual lack of reaction to S. roseogrisea songs observed in males. Thus, female collared doves, as receivers, may have different characteristics from males and impose constraints on the evolution of song.

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