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Manipulating a seemingly non-preferred male ornament reveals a role in female choice

1995; Royal Society; Volume: 261; Issue: 1360 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1995.0109

1471-2954

Robert C. Brooks, Neil Caithness,

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Brooks Robert and Caithness Neil 1995Manipulating a seemingly non-preferred male ornament reveals a role in female choiceProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.2617–10http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0109SectionRestricted accessArticleManipulating a seemingly non-preferred male ornament reveals a role in female choice Robert Brooks Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Neil Caithness Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Robert Brooks Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Neil Caithness Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 July 1995https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0109AbstractPast studies of a feral South African population of guppies have shown that females use the area of orange coloration borne by males as a criterion for mate choice. However, males bear spots of other colours, the most noticeable of which is black. We investigate whether female preference can maintain the black spots of male guppies despite the apparent unimportance of black to female choice in correlative studies. When part of a male's black pigmentation is removed, his 'attractiveness' to females decreases. This supports the hypothesis that in male animals with several ornaments, seemingly non-preferred ornaments can be maintained by female choice. These findings are discussed in the context of several models which account for the evolution of multiple male ornaments.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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This Issue22 July 1995Volume 261Issue 1360 Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1995.0109Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:0962-8452Online ISSN:1471-2954History: Manuscript received21/02/1995Manuscript accepted11/04/1995Published online01/01/1997Published in print22/07/1995 License:Scanned images copyright © 2017, Royal Society Citations and impact Large datasets are available through Proceedings B's partnership with Dryad