Carotenoid-based epaulettes reveal male competitive ability: experiments with resident and floater red-shouldered widowbirds

By S. R. Pryke, S. Andersson. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. Clint D. Kelly
2. S. R. Pryke
3. S. Andersson
4. Tim Caro
5. A. Monti
6. L. Serra
7. Davide Licheri
8. M. Griggio

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Clint D. Kelly
2. S. R. Pryke
3. S. Andersson
4. Tim Caro
5. A. Monti
6. L. Serra
7. Davide Licheri
8. A. Pilastro

Citations in the corpus

• The interrelationships between resource-holding potential, resource-value and reproductive success in territorial males: How much variation can we explain? (2008, methodology): “More common, but still found in only four studies (Lebas 2001; Andersson et al. 2002; Forstmeier 2002; Pryke and Andersson 2003a, b), was the use of PCA to distil several measures of one trait-type (e.g. structural) to a single variable representing, for example, body size (e.g. tarsus, culmen and…”
• Armaments and ornaments in the rock sparrow: a possible dual utility of a carotenoid-based feather signal (2006, background): “In birds, females often base their sexual preferences on variation in feather carotenoid signals (see Hill 1999b for a review), but evidence that these signals are also important in male–male competition is less abundant (Pryke et al. 2001b; Pryke and Andersson 2003a; Evans and Norris 1996; Etman ”
• Carotenoid-based status signalling in red-shouldered widowbirds (Euplectes axillaris): epaulet size and redness affect captive and territorial competition (2003, background): “In male widowbirds, however, female choice seems to be strongly focused on tail elongation (Andersson 1982, 1992; Pryke et al. 2001a; Pryke and Andersson 2002), whereas the red colouration appears to signal fighting ability to male rivals (Pryke et al. 2001b, 2002; Pryke and Andersson 2003 ).”
• The Adaptive Significance of Coloration in Mammals (2005, background): “Plumage badges, for example, are known to settle contests over food and breeding territories (Pryke and Andersson 2003), but most attention has focused on explaining sexual dichroma-tism, specifically, bright colors seen in males.”