A polymorphism in female preference for a polymorphic male trait in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus cortezi

By M. Morris, P. Nicoletto, Elizabeth Hesselman. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. A. Bell
3. H. Brockmann
4. M. Taborsky
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8. M. Taborsky

Citations in the corpus

• Preferred songs predict preferred males: consistency and repeatability of zebra finch females across three test contexts (2007, background): “Females could also have been affected by the variation in time between tests (Johnsen and Zuk, 1996; Morris et al., 2003) or learning opportunities between repeated tests (Hager and Teale, 1994) arising from the different test situations.”
• Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists (2009, background): “Recent work on individual variation among females in mate preferences also shows that females vary in choosiness per se (Morris et al. 2003); some females exhibit strong mating preferences while others are relatively unselective.”
• Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes (2010, background): “…phenotypes in one sex may be favoured by a polymorphism in preference traits of the other sex (Henson and Warner 1997, Alonzo and Sinervo 2001, Morris et al. 2003), which would mean that members of a phenotype compete with one another but not with members of the other phenotype and would be…”
• Repeatability of nesting preferences in the hawksbill sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, and their fitness consequences (2005, background): “The lack of a population preference could be due to (1) no actual preference or (2) having individuals that differ in their preferences, so that these average out to no preference at the level of the population, thereby masking individual variation (e.g. Morris et al. 2003).”
• Faux frogs : multimodal signalling and the value of robotics in animal behaviour (2008, methodology): “Studies of communication are often conducted using acoustic playbacks (Martof 1961; Littlejohn & Martin 1969; Gerhardt 1974; Gibson 1989), video animations (Rowland et al. 1995; Clark et al. 1997) or live animal manipulations (Andersson 1982; Basolo 1990; Morris et al. 2003).”
• Linking color polymorphism maintenance and speciation. (2007, background): “For example, individual females of the swordtail fish Xiphophorus cortezi strongly prefer males either with or without bar patterns [ 54 ].”
• Perceptual Processes and the Maintenance of Polymorphism Through Frequency-dependent Predation (2005, methodology): “Numerous studies have also successfully employed video equipment as stimuli for fish behaviour studies (reviewed in Rowland, 1999; see also Kunzler and Bakker, 2001; Morris et al., 2003 ).”
• Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes. (2008, background): “For the latter, females are known to vary, for example, in what sorts of male traits they prefer (Brooks and Endler, 2001; Cummings andMollaghan, 2006; Forstmeier and Birkhead, 2004; Jang and Greenfield, 2000; Morris et al., 2003).”