| Autor: |
Constantino Macías, Garcia, Yolitzi Saldívar, Lemus |
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; 6/ 7/2012, Vol. 279 Issue 1736, p2262-2268, 7p |
| Abstrakt: |
Male ornaments can evolve through the exploitation of female perceptual biases such as those involved in responding to cues from food. This type of sensory exploitation may lead to confusion between the male signals and the cues that females use to find/recognize food. Such interference would be costly to females and may be one reason why females evolve resistance to the male ornaments. Using a group of species of viviparous fish where resistance to a sensory trap has evolved, we demonstrate that females exposed to an ornament that resembles food have a diminished foraging efficiency, that this effect is apparent when foraging on a food item with which the ornament shares visual attributes, and that not all species are equally affected by such confusion. Our results lend support to the model of ornamental evolution through chase-away sexual conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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