Condition dependence, multiple sexual signals, and immunocompetence in peacocks

By A. Møller, Marion Petrie. 2002

146 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Developmental Biology

1. G. Sorci
2. L. Garamszegi

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. L. Garamszegi
2. J. Török
3. Doris Gomez
4. M. Théry
5. G. Hegyi
6. A. Loyau
7. G. Sorci
8. Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa

In Global and Planetary Change

1. L. Garamszegi

Citations in the corpus

• Multiple sexual advertisements honestly reflect health status in peacocks (Pavo cristatus) (2005, background): “If females use feather ornaments and behavioral displays to avoid unhealthy males (Hamilton and Zuk 1982; Borgia and Collis 1989; Folstad and Karter 1992; Able 1996), one should expect that, in peacocks, both traits are related to individual health status (Verhulst et al. 1999; Moller and Petrie 20”
• Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: when romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals. (2007, background): “... ornament, which is useless and even detrimental in other aspects of a peacock’s life; a high-quality tail is an honest signal of good genes because only those peacocks who are in good health and who have the traits required to survive and acquire abundant supplies of food can afford to waste the”
• Iridescent structurally based coloration of eyespots correlates with mating success in the peacock (2007, background): “…peafowl revealed that males with a larger number of eyespots achieved a higher mating success (Petrie et al. 1991; Petrie and Halliday 1994; Loyau, Saint Jalme, and Sorci 2005) and that this trait honestly signals male quality (Møller and Petrie 2002; Loyau, Saint Jalme, Cagniant, and Sorci 2005).”
• Peahens do not prefer peacocks with more elaborate trains (2008, background): “…unpublished data cited in Petrie et al. 1991; H. Arita, unpublished data) related to male ectoparasite loads; for indirect costs, train length was (Møller & Petrie 2002) or was not (Petrie et al. 1996) related to male residual weight (i.e. condition index), whereas the number of eyespots was…”
• Depigmented wing patch size is a condition-dependent indicator of viability in male collared flycatchers (2003, background): “A contrasting recent approach is to consider individual traits as composite signals with potentially multiple lines of information content (Badyaev et al., 2001; Moller and Petrie, 2002 ).”
• SEASONAL DIFFERENCES IN IMMUNOLOGICAL CONDITION OF THREE SPECIES OF THRUSHES (2006, background): “…the humoral immune function of Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) chicks fed diets with varying amounts of protein did not differ (Lochmiller et al. 1993), and humoral immune function was not associated with energetic condition in Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus, Møller and Petrie 2002).”